Australian Wool Corporation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

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Statutory Rules 1992

No. 1141

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Australian Wool Corporation Regulations2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Australian Wool Corporation Act 1991.

 Dated 21 April 1992.

 BILL HAYDEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

SIMON CREAN

Minister of State for

 Primary Industries and Energy

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Australian Wool Corporation Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[NOTE:

 These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts InterpretationAct1901, s.48]

2.   New regulation 5DA

2.1   After regulation 5D, insert:

Late registration

 “5DA. (1) If:

• (a)

  an application for registration as a wool‑tax payer is sent to the Corporation before the relevant period in relation to an annual general meeting begins; and

• (b)

  during the relevant period the Corporation in accordance with these regulations becomes satisfied that the applicant is entitled to be entered on the register;

the Corporation may register the applicant and enter in the register the particulars relating to the applicant specified in regulation 5C.

“(2)

For the purposes of the Act, these regulations and the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989 an entry made under subregulation (1) is taken to have been made on the day before the relevant period referred to in that subregulation began.

“(3)

In this regulation ‘relevant period’in relation to an annual general meetingmeans the period referred to in paragraph 5D (1) (a) in relation to that meeting.”.

3.   Regulation 5F (Notifying registered wool‑tax payers of a general meeting)

3.1   After subregulation 5F (1), insert:

 “(1A) If:

• (a)

  the Corporation registers a wool‑tax payer in the circumstances mentioned in subregulation 5DA (1); and

• (b)

  for that reason the Corporation cannot give to the registered wool‑tax payer at least 28 days before the day on which an annual general meeting is to be held the notice and other documents specified in subregulation (1) in respect of that meeting;

the Corporation is taken to have complied with subregulation (1) if it gives the notice and other documents to the registered wool‑tax payer at the earliest practicable time before the meeting.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 28 April 1992.

2. Statutory Rules 1991 No. 215 as amended by 1991 No. 470; 1992 No. 100.