Argentine Ant Eradication (Amendment) Act 1974 (NSW)

ARGENTINE ANT ERADICATION

(AMENDMENT) ACT.

ANNO VICESIMO TERTIO

ELIZABETHE II REGINE

Act No. 15, 1974.

An Act relating to the Argentine Ant Eradication Campaign Fund; for this purpose to amend the Argentine Ant Eradication Act, 1962; to validate certain matters; and for purposes connected

BE

therewith. [Assented to, 10th April, 1974.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative	Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the "Argentine Ant

eradication (Amendment) Act, 1974".

1. The Argentine Ant Eradication Act, 1962, is, in this

\ct, referred to as the Principal Act.

1. The Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting section 13 and by inserting instead the following section :—

13. Before the end of each financial year, the Minister shall prepare an estimate of the amount required for the Fund during the then next ensuing financial year and, if the Treasurer agrees, that estimate shall be the adopted estimate for that next ensuing financial year.

(b) ( i) by omitting section 14 (1) (a ) and by

inserting instead the following paragraph :—

(a) There shall be deducted from the adopted estimate for a financial year any amount standing to the credit of the Fund at the end of the next previous financial year and towards the net amount so determined—

(i) the Treasurer shall contribute one-
third; and

(ii)

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(ii)   the councils which are specified in the Schedule at the commencement oi the financial year to which the adopted estimate relates shall contribute two- thirds.

(ii)   by omitting from section 14 (2) the words "subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of sub­ section one of this section in the first financia year and any subsequent" and by inserting instead the words "subsection (1) (a ) (ii) in any";

(iii) by omitting section 14 ( 7 ) .

4. Each contribution purporting to be assessed by the Minister under section 14 (4) (a) of the Principal Act in respect of the financial year ending on 30th June, 1974, oi any previous financial year, shall be deemed to have been validly assessed.

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