Meat Industry

No. 77 of 1965

An Act to amend section 31 of the Meat Industry Act 1964, and for purposes connected therewith.

[Assented to 25 November, 1965]

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 Meat Industry Act 1965.

(2.) The Meat Industry Act 1964, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Meat Industry Act 1964–1965.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the date fixed by Proclamation under sub-section (1.) of section 2 of the Meat Research Act 1965.

Payments to the Board.

3.—(1.) Section 31 of the Meat Industry Act 1964 is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (a) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(a) the amounts of levy received by the Commonwealth by virtue of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section six, paragraph (a)

of sub-section (1.) of section six a, and paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section six b, of the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964–1965;”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—

“(3.) A reference in paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of this section to amounts of levy received by the Commonwealth shall be read as including a reference to amounts received from the proprietor of an abattoir in accordance with section seven of the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Collection Act 1964 and amounts payable by way of penalty in accordance with section nine of that Act in relation to amounts of levy referred to in that paragraph.”.

(2.) Notwithstanding the amendment made by paragraph (a) of the last preceding sub-section, paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section 31 of the Meat Industry Act 1964 continues to apply in relation to amounts of levy received by the Commonwealth in relation to the slaughter of live-stock that is or was slaughtered before the date on which regulations made for the purposes of sections 6, 6a and 6b of the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964–1965 take effect.

(3.) The reference in paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section 31 of the Meat Industry Act 1964, in its application in pursuance of the last preceding sub-section, to the Cattle and Beef Research Trust Account shall be read as a reference to the Meat. Research Trust Account.