WOOL USE PROMOTION.

No. 27 of 1957.

An Act to amend the Wool Use Promotion Act 1953, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 30th May, 1957.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’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 Wool Use Promotion Act 1957.

(2.) The Wool Use Promotion Act 1953 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Wool Use Promotion Act 1953–1957.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven.

Repeal and savings.

3. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (7.).

Definitions.

4. Section four of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definitions of “the Minister”, “the Ministers” and “the Research Account”.

Repeal of sections 5, 6 and 7.

5. Sections five, six and seven of the Principal Act are repealed.

Membership of Bureau, &c.

6.—(1.) Section nine of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-sections (1.), (2.) and (3.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-sections:—

“(1.) The Bureau shall consist of—

(a) six members representative of Australian woolgrowers; and

(b) one other member.

“(2.) The members of the Bureau shall, subject to the next succeeding sub-section, be appointed by the Governor-General and shall hold office for a period of three years.

“(3.) Three of the members representative of Australian woolgrowers shall be appointed upon the nomination of the organization known as the Australian Woolgrowers’ Council, and three of those members shall be appointed upon the nomination of the organization known as the Australian Wool and Meat Producers’ Federation.

“(3a.) If the office of a member representative of Australian woolgrowers becomes vacant before the expiration of his term of office, the Governor-General may, on the nomination of the organization that nominated the member whose office has become vacant, appoint a person to fill the vacancy, and a person so appointed shall, subject to this Act, hold office for the remainder of the term of office of the member in whose place he is appointed.

“(3b.) If the office of the member not representative of Australian woolgrowers becomes vacant before the expiration of his term of office, the Governor-General may appoint a person to fill the vacancy, and a person so appointed shall, subject to this Act, hold office for the remainder of the term of office of the member in whose place he is appointed.”.

(2.) The persons holding office, immediately before the commencement of this Act, as the members of the Australian Wool Bureau representative of Australian woolgrowers shall continue to hold office as such members under the Wool Use Promotion Act 1953–1957 until and including the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine.

(3.) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (2.) of section nine of the Wool Use Promotion Act 1953–1957, the person first appointed after the commencement of this Act to be the

member of the Australian Wool Bureau not representative of Australian woolgrowers shall be appointed to hold office until and including the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine.

7.—(1.) Section eleven of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

Deputies of members.

“11.—(1.) A member of the Bureau representative of Australian woolgrowers may, with the approval of the Bureau, appoint a person to be his deputy.

“(2.) The Governor-General may appoint a person to be the deputy of the member of the Bureau not representative of Australian woolgrowers.

“(3.) A deputy of a member of the Bureau is, in the event of the absence from a meeting of the Bureau of the member of whom he is the deputy, entitled to attend that meeting and, when so attending, shall be deemed to be a member of the Bureau.”.

(2.) A person who was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, the deputy of a member of the Australian Wool Bureau representative of Australian woolgrowers shall be deemed to have been, with the approval of the Bureau, appointed to be the deputy of the member under section eleven of the Wool Use Promotion Act 1953–1957.

Fees, allowances and expenses.

8. Section fourteen of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “(other than the Commonwealth Wool Adviser or the Deputy Commonwealth Wool Adviser)”.

Wool Use Promotion Fund.

9.—(1.) Section eighteen of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—

“(2.) There shall be paid into the Fund, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly, amounts equal to the amounts of tax received by the Commissioner of Taxation by virtue of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section six of the Wool Tax Act (No. 1) 1957 and by virtue of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section six of the Wool Tax Act (No. 2) 1957.”.

(2.) For the purposes of sub-section (2.) of section eighteen of the Wool Use Promotion Act 1953–1957, tax received by the Commissioner of Taxation under the Wool Tax Act (No. 1) 1952 or under the Wool Tax Act (No. 2) 1952 after the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be tax received by virtue of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section six of the Wool Tax Act (No. 1) 1957 or by virtue of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section six of the Wool Tax Act (No. 2) 1957, as the case may be.

Wool Research Trust Account.

10.—(1.) Section twenty-one of the Principal Act is repealed.

(2.) Upon the date of commencement of this Act, an amount equal to the amount which, at that date, stood to the credit of the Wool Research Trust Account established by the Principal Act shall be credited to the Wool Research Trust Fund established by the Wool Research Act 1957.

(3.) Where, before the date of commencement of this Act, approval was given under section twenty-one of the Principal Act for the application of an amount out of moneys standing to the credit of the Wool Research Trust Account established by the Principal Act and the whole of that amount was not, before that date, paid out of that Account, the like approval shall be deemed to have been given under the Wool Research Act 1957 for the application of an amount equal to the balance of that amount out of moneys standing to the credit of the Wool Research Trust Fund established by the last-mentioned Act.