WHEAT INDUSTRY STABILIZATION (No. 2).

No. 80 of 1946.

An Act to amend the Wheat Industry Stabilization Act 1946.

[Assented to 14th December, 1946.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Wheat Industry Stabilization Act (No. 2) 1946.

(2.) The Wheat Industry Stabilization Act 1946* is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Wheat Industry Stabilization Acts 1946.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Power of Board.

3. Section ten of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2.) the figures “1945-46” and inserting in their stead the figures “1946-47”.

Continuance of National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations.

4. Section eleven of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the figures “1945-46” and inserting in their stead the figures “1946-47”.

Saving of acts of Australian Wheat Board.

5. Section twelve of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word “Act” (first occurring) and inserting in its stead the word “section”.

Employees under National Security (Wheat Acquisition Regulations to be employees of Board.

6. Section thirteen of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word “Act” (first occurring) and inserting in its stead the word “section”.

Pending applications.

7. Section fourteen of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word “Act” (first occurring) and inserting in its stead the word “section”.

Wheat Prices Stabilization Fund.

8. Section thirty-one of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (l.) all the words after the word “equivalent” and inserting in their stead the words “to the amounts from time to time collected under the Wheat Export Charge Acts 1946 and the Wheat Tax Act 1946, less any amounts necessary for the purposes of making adjustments in accordance with those Acts”.

Offences.

9. Section thirty-four of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—

“(1.) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with—

(a) any provision of this Act for which no other penalty is provided; or

(b) any provision of any Regulations continued in force by this Act or of any such Regulations as amended by any regulation made under this Act,

shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: A fine of One hundred pounds or imprisonment for six months.”.

Regulations.

10. Section thirty-five of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after paragraph (b) the following paragraph:—

“(ba) the repeal or amendment of all or any of the provisions of the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations, but so that any such amendment shall be in respect of a matter dealt with by those Regulations;”.

Effect of order for Acquisition of Certain Wheat.

11. The order made by the Minister of State for Commerce under regulation fourteen of the National Security (Wheat Acquisition) Regulations and published in the Gazette on the sixteenth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, shall be deemed to be, and at all times to have been, fully authorized by that regulation, and shall have, and be deemed to have had, full force and effect according to its tenor in respect of wheat harvested in any wheat season up to and including the 1946-47 season.