Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation (Annual General Meeting of the Industry) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 3192

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation Act 1980.

Dated 1 December 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

WARREN TRUSS

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation (Annual General Meeting of the Industry) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on the commencement of items 1 to 7 of Schedule 2 to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2000.

3 Amendment of Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation (Annual General Meeting of the Industry) Regulations 1999

  Schedule 1 amends the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation (Annual General Meeting of the Industry) Regulations 1999.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 3, definition of Levy Act

omit

[2] Regulation 3, definition of special motion, paragraph (b)

substitute

 (b) under subclause 9 (1) of Schedule 26 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999.

[3] Regulation 3, note

substitute

Note   Annual general meeting, Corporation, Corporation’s component of wine grapes levy, wine export charge, wine grapes levy and year are defined in section 4 of the Act.

[4] Subregulation 8 (1)

substitute

 (1) An eligible producer for a year is entitled to vote upon any matter to be determined at the meeting in that year.

[5] Subregulation 8 (4)

substitute

 (4) The number of votes that an eligible producer may cast is:

 (a) if voting is by a show of hands — 1 vote; or

 (b) if voting is by ballot — 1 vote for every whole dollar of the total amount of levy and charge imposed on the eligible producer for the immediately preceding year:

 (i) that is the Corporation’s component of wine grapes levy; or

 (ii) that is a wine export charge; or

 (iii) that is an amount of levy referred to in paragraph 6 (1) (a) of the repealed Wine Grapes Levy Act 1979.

[6] Subregulation 9 (4)

omit

or the voting rights of

insert

the voting rights of, or the number of votes cast by

[7] Regulations 12 and 13

omit

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1999 No. 294.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 December 2000.