DAIRYING INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND
PROMOTION LEVY AMENDMENT ACT 1978
No. 138 of 1978
An Act to amend the Dairying Industry
Research and Promotion Levy Act 1972.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Dairying Industry Research and
Promotion Levy Amendment Act 1978.
(2) The Dairying Industry Research and Promotion Levy Act 1972 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of the month
next succeeding the month in which it receives the Royal Assent.
Title
3. The title of the Principal Act is amended by inserting “, or otherwise
disposed of,” after “sold”.
Interpretation
4. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end
thereof the following sub-section:
“(3) For the purposes of this Act and of the Dairying Industry
Research and Promotion Levy Collection Act 1972, where whole milk or butter
fat produced by a person is, after the commencement of this subsection,
supplied by the producer to another person for disposal or processing by that
other person, but the milk or butter fat is not sold by the producer to that
other person or any other person at or before the time it is so supplied—
(a) the whole milk or butter fat, as the case may be, shall be
deemed to have been sold by the producer to that other person at the time it is
so supplied and that other person shall be deemed to have purchased the whole
milk or butter fat, as the case may be, from the producer at that time; and
(b) any sale of the whole milk or butter fat, as the case may be,
by or on behalf of the producer (including a sale to that other person) after
it is so supplied shall be disregarded.”.