Agricultural Products Act Amendment Act 1965 (WA)

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AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.

No. 42 of 1965.

AN ACT to amend the Agricultural Products Act,

1929-1964.

[Assented to 8th November, 1965.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Agricultural and citation.

Products Act Amendment Act, 1965.

(2) In this Act the Agricultural Products Act,

1929-1964, is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Agricultural Products Act, 1929-1965.

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amended. 2. Section three of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by substituting for the passage, "wool." in the last line of subsection (1), the passage, "wool; or"; and
(b)	by adding after paragraph (e) of subsection (1), the following paragraph

(f) have in his possession, except on the property on which it is produced, any wool that is intended for sale or has been sold unless the wool is packed in the manner referred to in paragraph (e) of this subsection. .

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amended.	3. Section three C of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the passage, "sixty-five" in the last line, the passage, "sixty-six".
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amended. 4. Section four of the principal Act is amended

(a)	by adding after the word, "products" in line two of subsection (1), the words, "other than wool"; and
(b)	by adding after the word, "products" in line two of subsection (2), the words, "other than wool".

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added. 5. The principal Act is amended by adding, after

section four, the following section-

Inspection

of wool. 4A. (1) Where an inspector has reasonable

grounds for suspecting that wool which

(a)	is intended for sale or has been sold; and
(b)	is not packed in the manner referred to in paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section three of this Act,

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is in or on any place, not being the place on which it was produced, he may enter in or on and search that place and inspect any wool there found.

(2)

An inspector may, for the purposes of exercising the powers conferred by subsection (1) of this section, stop and detain any vehicle which he suspects on reasonable grounds to be carrying wool of a kind referred to in that subsection.

(3)

A person who, being in charge of any vehicle, fails to stop the vehicle when required to do so by a person who makes himself known as an inspector, commits an offence.

Penalty: Fifty pounds. .

6. Section eight of the principal Act is amended— 36! amended.

(a)	by adding after the section number, "8." the subsection designation, "(1)"; and
(b)	by adding a subsection as follows

(2) In any proceedings in respect of an offence under paragraph (e) or para- graph (f) of subsection (1) of section three of this Act, the averment of the prosecutor that any wool the subject of the complaint is or was intended for sale or has been sold shall, if contained in a sworn complaint, be deemed to be proved in the absence of proof to the contrary. .