Dairy Industry Stabilization Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 97

REGULATION UNDER THE DAIRY INDUSTRY STABILIZATION ACT 1977*

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section 4 (6) of the Dairy Industry Stabilization Act 1977 that the regulations may provide that a production period with respect to a kind of dairy products shall be divided into 2 or more periods each of which shall be a production period with respect to that kind of dairy products any one or more of which may be periods that commenced before the date of commencement of the regulations:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section 4 (7) of that Act that, before making regulations for the purposes of sub-section 4 (6) of that Act, the Governor-General shall take into consideration any relevant recommendations made to the Minister by the Australian Dairy Corporation after consultation with the Australian Dairy Industry Advisory Committee:

AND WHEREAS the Australian Dairy Corporation, after consultation with the Australian Dairy Industry Advisory Committee, has made recommendations to the Minister with respect to the making of a regulation for the purposes of section 4 (6) of that Act:

NOW THEREFORE I, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and after taking into consideration those recommendations made to the Minister by the Australian Dairy Corporation, hereby make the following Regulation under the Dairy Industry Stabilization Act 1977.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of June 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Primary Industry

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1978.

 

AMENDMENT OF THE DAIRY INDUSTRY STABILIZATION REGULATIONS*

After regulation 2 of the Dairy Industry Stabilization Regulations the following regulations are inserted:

Production periods

“ 2A. (1) A production period with respect to a kind of dairy products (other than modified skimmilk powder and whole milk powder) that commenced on 1 July 1977 and ends on 30 June 1978 is divided into 2 periods, namely—

(a) the period that commenced on 1 July 1977 and ended on 31 December 1977; and

(b) the period that commenced on 1 January 1978 and ends on 30 June 1978,

each of which is a production period with respect to that kind of dairy products.

“ (2) The production period with respect to modified skimmilk powder that commenced on 1 December 1977 and ends on 30 June 1978 is divided into 2 periods, namely—

(a) the period that commenced on 1 December 1977 and ended on 31 December 1977; and

(b) the period that commenced on 1 January 1978 and ends on 30 June 1978,

each of which is a production period with respect to modified skimmilk powder.

Prescribed period for the purposes of the definition of “ prescribed period ” in sub-section 5 (4) of the Act

“ 2b. For the purposes of the definition of ‘ prescribed period ’ in sub-section 5 (4) of the Act, the period of 12 months is prescribed in respect of each kind of dairy products.”.

 

* Statutory Rules 1977, Nos. 132 and 230.