Egg Industry Research (Hen Quota) Levy Amendment Act 1987

No. 107 of 1987

An Act to amend the Egg Industry Research (Hen Quota)

Levy Act 1987

[Assented to 13 November 1987]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title etc.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Egg Industry Research (Hen Quota) Levy Amendment Act 1987.

(2) The Egg Industry Research (Hen Quota) Levy Act 19871 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1987.

Interpretation

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of “hen quota licence” and substituting the following definitions:

“ ‘hen quota’, in relation to a hen quota licence, means the maximum number of laying hens that the holder of the licence is entitled to keep under the licence;

‘hen quota licence’ means a licence or authorisation (however described) issued under a law of a State or Territory that entitles the holder to keep laying hens (whether at a particular place or otherwise);”.

Egg production in Northern Territory

4. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b) “specified in” (last occurring) and substituting “for”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (d) “specified in” and substituting “for”.

Egg production in Australian Capital Territory

5. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “specified in” (last occurring) and substituting “for”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (2) (d) “specified in” and substituting “for”.

Laying hens kept

6. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (2) “specified in the licence or the sum of the hen quotas specified in” and substituting “for the licence or the sum of the hen quotas for”.

NOTE

1. No. 70, 1987.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 18 September 1987

Senate on 27 October 1987]