Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation (Annual General Meeting of the Industry) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1) (Cth)

Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation (Annual General Meeting of the Industry) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 3192

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation Act 1980.

Dated 1 December 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

WARREN TRUSS

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation (Annual General Meeting of the Industry) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on the commencement of items 1 to 7 of Schedule 2 to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2000.

3Amendment of Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation (Annual General Meeting of the Industry) Regulations 1999

 Schedule 1 amends the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation (Annual General Meeting of the Industry) Regulations 1999.

Schedule 1Amendments

  

(regulation 3)

[1]Regulation 3, definition of Levy Act

omit

[2]Regulation 3, definition of special motion, paragraph (b)

substitute

• (b)

  under subclause 9 (1) of Schedule 26 to the Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999.

[3]Regulation 3, note

substitute

Note Annual general meeting, Corporation, Corporation’s component of wine grapes levy, wine export charge, wine grapes levy and year are defined in section 4 of the Act.

[4]Subregulation 8 (1)

substitute

• (1)

  An eligible producer for a year is entitled to vote upon any matter to be determined at the meeting in that year.

[5]Subregulation 8 (4)

substitute

• (4)

  The number of votes that an eligible producer may cast is:

  • (a)

    if voting is by a show of hands — 1 vote; or

  • (b)

    if voting is by ballot — 1 vote for every whole dollar of the total amount of levy and charge imposed on the eligible producer for the immediately preceding year:

    • (i)

      that is the Corporation’s component of wine grapes levy; or

    • (ii)

      that is a wine export charge; or

    • (iii)

      that is an amount of levy referred to in paragraph 6 (1) (a) of the repealed Wine Grapes Levy Act 1979.

[6]Subregulation 9 (4)

omit

or the voting rights of

insert

the voting rights of, or the number of votes cast by

[7]Regulations 12 and 13

omit

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1999 No. 294.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette