Bee Industry Compensation Amendment Act 1984 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

BEE INDUSTRY

COMPENSATION.

No. 85 of 1984.

AN ACT to amend the Bee Industry Compensation

Act 1953.

[Assented to 29 November 1984.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 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 Bee Industry Compensation Amendment Act 1984.

and principal

Act.

Reprinted as

(2) In this Act the Bee Industry Compensation Act 1953 is referred to as the principal Act.

approved

17 March 1971

and amended

by Acts

Nos. 6 of

1972 and

43 of 1980.

No. 85.] Bee Industry Compensation. [1984.

Commence-

ment.	2. This Act shall come into operation on the day that the Beekeepers Amendment Act 1984 comes into operation.
Section 10

repealed and 3. Section 10 of the principal Act is repealed and

substituted. the following section is substituted

Minister to

fix licence	10. The Minister shall, before 31 December of each year, on the recommendation of the Committee, by order published in the Government Gazette fix the amount, including the minimum amount, to be paid as a licence fee pursuant to section 9 in respect of the year next ensuing. ".
fee.
Section 12

amended. 4. Section 12 of the principal Act is amended

(a)	in subsection (2), by deleting paragraph (b); and
(b)	by inserting after subsection (2) the following subsection
it (3) Where the Committee is satisfied that the property of a beekeeper is destroyed or disinfected pursuant to the Beekeepers Act 1963 because it is infected by disease or pests by reason of the failure of the beekeeper to observe the Beekeepers Act 1963 or any provision thereof then notwithstanding that the beekeeper concerned is not charged with or convicted of an offence against that Act the Committee may recommend to the Minister that the compensation that would otherwise be payable under this Act to the beekeeper be refused or reduced to such amount as is recommended by the Committee in its recommendation. ".

1984.] Bee Industry Compensation. [No. 85.

5.    Section 13 of the principal Act is amended in =dne,P

subsection (1) by inserting after "shall be" the

following

CI such amount as is determined by the Minister

on the recommendation of the Committee in respect of the year in which the compensation is claimed and in any event shall not exceed ".

6.    The provisions of the principal Act as in force TiVisTonal.

before the coming into operation of this Act apply to and in relation to every claim for compensation pending before the coming into operation of this Act.