Dairy Produce Amendment Act 1996 (Cth)

Dairy Produce Amendment Act 1996

No. 3, 1996

An Act to amend the Dairy Produce Act 1986, and for related purposes

Contents
1	Short title.....................................................................................................................................................	1
2	Commencement........................................................................................................................................	1
3	Schedule(s)..................................................................................................................................................	2
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Dairy Produce Act 1986			3

Dairy Produce Amendment Act 1996

No. 3, 1996

An Act to amend the Dairy Produce Act 1986, and for related purposes

[Assented to 6 June 1996]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Dairy Produce Amendment Act 1996.

2 Commencement

This Act is taken to have commenced on 1 July 1995, immediately after the commencement of the Dairy Produce Amendment Act 1995.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Dairy Produce Act 1986

1 Section 103 (definition of manufacturing milk)

Omit all the words after paragraph (b), substitute “other than market milk”.

2 Section 103

Insert:

market milk means relevant dairy produce on which market milk levy is imposed by paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Dairy Produce Levy (No. 1) Act 1986.

3 Subsection 108(1)

Omit “processed by a manufacturer as liquid milk for human consumption and sold or distributed in Australia as liquid milk for human consumption”, substitute “that a manufacturer knows is market milk”.

4 Transitional

A manufacturer is not guilty of an offence under section 113 of the Dairy Produce Act 1986 only because the manufacturer gave or gives the Corporation a return:

(a) relating to a month ending before this Act received the Royal Assent; and

(b) complying with section 108 of the Dairy Produce Act 1986 as in force immediately before it was amended by this Act; and

(c) not complying with section 108 of the Dairy Produce Act 1986 as amended by this Act.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 1 May 1996

Senate on 9 May 1996