| C2004C02470 | BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 [Note: This Act is "repealed" by Act No. 59 of 1996]
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Compilation Information
- Reprinted as at 31 January 1984
*1* The Beef Industry (Incentive Payments) Act 1977 as shown in this reprint
comprises Act No. 155, 1977 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
Table of Acts
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Application,
saving
Number Date Date of or
transitional
Act and year of Assent commencement
provisions
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Beef Industry
(Incentive
Payments) Act 1977 155, 1977 10 Nov
1977 10 Nov 1977
Beef Industry
(Incentive
Payments)
Amendment Act 1981 49, 1981 25 May
1981 S. 3 (1):
10 Nov 1977
Remainder:
Royal Assent S. 3 (2)
and (3)
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Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted am. = amended rep. =
repealed rs. = repealed and substituted
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Provision affected How affected
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S. 9A . . . . . . . . ad. No. 49, 1981
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BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS
TABLE
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Interpretation
4. Incentive payments
5. Amount of incentive payment
6. To whom incentive payment payable
7. Division of incentive payment among beef producers
8. Claims for incentive payments
9. Trustees, &c.
9A. Payments to be calculated so as to maximize benefits
10. Incentive payment not payable unless Act complied with
11. Appropriation
12. Power to require information
13. False statements, &c.
14. Annual report
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - LONG TITLE
SECT
An Act to provide for incentive payments in respect of certain cattle kept for
beef production
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 1
Short title
SECT
1. This Act may be cited as the Beef Industry (Incentive Payments) Act
1977.*1*
SEE NOTES TO FIRST ARTICLE OF THIS CHAPTER .
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 2
Commencement
SECT
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.*1*
SEE NOTES TO FIRST ARTICLE OF THIS CHAPTER .
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 3
Interpretation
SECT
3. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-
"authorized person" means a person authorized by the Minister, in writing,
for the purposes of the provision in which the expression occurs;
"beef producer" means a person who, on 30 June 1977, was the owner, or one
of the owners, of each of 50 or more cattle;
"cattle" means bovine animals (other than animals of the kind commonly known
as buffalo) kept for beef production, and only for beef production, and
"animal" means such a bovine animal;
"claim" means a claim for an incentive payment;
"incentive payment" means an incentive payment under this Act;
"owner", in relation to an animal, does not include a person whose sole
interest in the animal is, or was, an interest by way of a mortgage, lien or
other charge over the animal;
"recognized procedure", in relation to an animal means-
(a) treatment of the animal for external or internal parasites;
(b) vaccination of the animal for the purpose of controlling disease;
(c) testing or treatment of the animal for the purpose of diagnosing or
eradicating brucellosis or tuberculosis;
(d) where the animal is a female that has not attained the age of 2
years-the spaying of the animal; or
(e) any other action with respect to the animal (being an action for the
purpose of controlling disease) of a kind accepted by the Minister as being a
recognized procedure for the purposes of this Act;
"relevant time", in relation to an animal in respect of which an incentive
payment is payable, is the time when there was carried out with respect to the
animal the recognized procedure by reason of which that incentive payment is
payable;
"representative capacity", in relation to a person, means a capacity of the
person as a personal representative or as one of the personal representatives,
of a particular deceased person or a capacity of the person as the trustee, or
as one of the trustees, of a particular trust;
"year to which this Act applies" means the year that commenced on 23
September 1977.
(2) An acceptance by the Minister of action of any kind for the purposes of
paragraph (e) of the definition of "recognized procedure" in sub-section (1)
may be expressed to have effect from the commencement of the year to which
this Act applies or from any later date.
(3) Where an incentive payment in respect of an animal is payable, or has
been paid, to a person nominated by 2 or more beef producers, or to 2 or more
beef producers jointly, in accordance with paragraph 6 (1) (c), that incentive
payment shall, for the purposes of sub-section 6 (3) or (4), be deemed to be
payable or to have been paid, as the case may be, to each of those beef
producers.
(4) Where (whether at the same time or at different times) a person is the
owner, or one of the owners, of cattle in a representative capacity and the
owner, or one of the owners, of cattle in a capacity other than a
representative capacity, he shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to
be, in each of those capacities, a different person, and where (whether at the
same time or at different times) a person is the owner, or one of the owners,
of cattle in 2 or more representative capacities (whether or not he is the
owner, or one of the owners, of cattle in a capacity other than a
representative capacity) he shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to
be, in each of those capacities, a different person.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 4
Incentive payments
SECT
4. If-
(a) a recognized procedure has been carried out with respect to an animal
during the year to which this Act applies; and
(b) at the time when the recognized procedure was carried out, the owner,
or one of the owners, of the animal was a beef producer,
then, subject to this Act, a payment, to be known as an incentive payment, is
payable in respect of the animal.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 5
Amount of incentive payment
SECT
5. The amount of the incentive payment in respect of an animal is $10.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 6
To whom incentive payment payable
SECT
6. (1) Subject to this Act, an incentive payment in respect of an animal is
payable-
(a) where, at the relevant time, the animal was owned solely by a beef
producer-to that beef producer;
(b) where, at the relevant time, the animal was owned by 2 or more persons
of whom one only was a beef producer-to that beef producer; or
(c) where, at the relevant time, the animal was owned by 2 or more persons,
being persons who are or include 2 or more beef producers-to a person
nominated by those beef producers for division among those beef producers or,
in a case or class of cases approved by an authorized person, to those beef
producers jointly.
(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), a beef producer shall be deemed not
to have been the owner, or one of the owners, of an animal at the relevant
time unless-
(a) at the relevant time, the beef producer has been the owner, or one of
the owners, of the animal since a date not later than 30 June 1977 or for a
period of not less than 3 months; or
(b) the beef producer has, after the relevant time, continued to be the
owner, or one of the owners, of the animal for a period that, together with
the period during which the beef producer had, before the relevant time, been
the owner, or one of the owners, of the animal, is not less than 3 months.
(3) Not more than one incentive payment is payable to a beef producer in
respect of the one animal.
(4) Incentive payments are not payable to the one beef producer in respect
of more than 200 cattle.
(5) Where, by virtue of sub-section (3) or (4) of this section or section
10, a particular incentive payment in respect of an animal is not payable to a
beef producer, then, for the purposes of sub-section (1), the beef producer
shall be deemed not to have been the owner, or one of the owners, of the
animal at the relevant time.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 7
Division of incentive payment among beef producers
SECT
7. Where an incentive payment is, in accordance with paragraph 6 (1) (c),
paid to a person nominated by 2 or more beef producers for division among
those beef producers, that person shall divide that payment among those beef
producers in such proportions as are agreed upon by those beef producers or,
in default of such agreement, in such proportions as are determined by the
Minister having regard to the circumstances of the case.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 8
Claims for incentive payments
SECT
8. (1) An incentive payment is not payable to a person unless a claim by, or
on behalf of, that person for that payment has been submitted to an authorized
person in accordance with this section.
(2) Claims shall be made at such times as the Minister approves, shall be in
a form approved by the Minister and shall be accompanied by such documents as
are required to be submitted in compliance with that form.
(3) A claim shall not be submitted after 31 December 1978.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 9
Trustees, &c.
SECT
9. (1) Where a person is the owner, or one of the owners, of cattle in a
representative capacity, an authorized person may, having regard to all the
circumstances of the case, direct that the person shall, in that capacity, be
treated, for the purposes of this Act, as if, at a particular time or during a
particular period (being a time which may be earlier than, or a period which
may have commenced before, the time when the person became the personal
representative or trustee by virtue of which he is the owner of cattle in that
representative capacity), he had been the owner, or one of the owners, of such
cattle, or such number of cattle, as the authorized person thinks appropriate.
(2) The powers of an authorized person under sub-section (1) shall be
exercised subject to and in accordance with the directions, if any, of the
Minister.
(3) A direction by an authorized person under this section shall be given by
instrument in writing.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 9A
Payments to be calculated so as to maximize benefits
SECT
9A. If, but for this section, the total of the amounts of 2 or more
incentive payments payable under this Act would vary according to the order in
which the payments are made, the payments shall be made in such order as would
maximize the total of the amounts of those payments.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 10
Incentive payment not payable unless Act complied with
SECT
10. An incentive payment is not payable to a beef producer unless he
satisfies the Minister or an authorized person that the requirements of this
Act have been substantially complied with by him.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 11
Appropriation
SECT
11. Incentive payments are payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund,
which is appropriated accordingly.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 12
Power to require information
SECT
12. An authorized person may, by notice in writing, require a person to
furnish to him, within the time specified in the notice, such information in
relation to matters relevant to the operation of this Act as is specified in
the notice, including information verified by statutory declaration.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 13
False statements, &c.
SECT
13. A person shall not, for the purpose of obtaining an incentive payment
for himself or for any other person-
(a) make a false or misleading statement, knowing it to be false or
misleading or not believing it to be true; or
(b) do a fraudulent act.
Penalty: $500.
BEEF INDUSTRY (INCENTIVE PAYMENTS) ACT 1977 - SECT 14
Annual report
SECT
14. The Minister shall, as soon as practicable after 31 December 1978,
prepare a report on the operation of this Act and cause the report to be laid
before each House of the Parliament.
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