Dairy Produce Export Control (Election of Board) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 13.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT

CONTROL ACT 1924-1942*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Dairy Produce Export Control Act 1924-1942.

Dated this seventeenth day of January, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

W. J. SCULLY

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

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Amendments of the Dairy Produce Export Control (Election of Board) Regulations. 

Elections under s. 4. (2.) (d) of the Act.

1. Regulation 9 of the Dairy Produce Export Control (Election of Board) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following proviso and sub-regulation:—

“Provided that, where a producer, who ordinarily supplies milk or cream to a co-operative butter or cheese factory in the State in respect of which any such representative is to be elected, is, or has been, by reason of transport restrictions arising out of the war, required to supply milk or cream to a proprietary or privately owned butter or cheese factory, he shall not, by reason of that fact only, cease to be entitled to vote at the election of that representative.

“(2.) For the purposes of this regulation ‘producer’ shall be deemed to include each party to a share-farming agreement.”.

2. After regulation 9 of the Dairy Produce Export Control (Election of Board) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Roll for election under s. 4. (2.) (d), (e) and (f) of the Act.

“ 9a. In the case of an election of representatives in pursuance of paragraphs (d)(e) and (f) of sub-section (2.) of section 4 of the Act, each butter factory and cheese factory shall, on or before a date fixed by the Minister, lodge with the Returning Officer a list of the names and addresses of all producers who, during the year ended on the thirtieth day of June last preceding the election, supplied milk or cream to that factory, and those lists shall be deemed to be the roll for that election.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21st January, 1946.

  Statutory Rules 1936, No. 19

78.—Price 3d.

Claims for enrolment.

3.

Regulation 10 of the Diary Produce Export Control (Election of Board Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(1.) The owner of a butter factory or cheese factory shall not be entitled to have his name placed on a roll in respect of an election under paragraph(c) of sub-section (2.) of section 4 of the Act unless he lodges with the Returning Officer, or a Deputy Returning Officer, on or before the date, or later date (if any) fixed in pursuance of sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation, a claim for enrolment in accordance with Form A completed and attested in accordance with the direction set out in the claim for enrolment.

“(1a.) Aperson who is—

(a) a party to a share-farming agreement and whose name is not recorded at a butter factory or cheese factory; or

(b)a producer who ordinarily supplies milk or cream to a co-operative butter or cheese factory and who is, or has been, by reason of transport restrictions arising out of the war, required to supply milk or cream to a proprietary or privately-owned butter or cheese factory,

shall not be entitled to have his name placed on a roll in respect of an election under paragraph(d), (e) or (f) of sub-section (2.) of section 4 of the Act unless he lodges with the Returning Officer, or a Deputy Returning Officer, on or before the date or later date (if any), fixed in pursuance of the next succeeding sub-regulation, a claim for enrolment in accordance with Form B completed and attested in accordance with the directions set out in the claim for enrolment.”.”

The Schedule.

4. The Schedule to the Dairy Produce Export Control (Election of Board) Regulations is amended by omitting from Form B the word “co-operative” (first and last occurring).

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.