Diseases In Stock Acts Amendment Act of 1950 (14 Geo Vi No. 13) (Qld)

246 STOCK. Diseases in Stock Acts Amendment Act. 14 GEO. VI. No. 13, STOCK. (1) The Diseases in Stock Acts Amendment Act of 1950 14 Geo. VI. No. 13 (2) The Slaughtering Act of 1951 .. 15 Geo. VI. No. 9' 14 N O o E . O 1 . 3 V . I. An Act to Amend "The Diseases in Stock Acts, 1915- THE DISEASES to 1949," in certain particulars. IN STOCK ACTS AMENDMENT ACT OF [ASSENTED TO 23RD N OV;E]MBER, 1950.] 1950. B E it enacted by the King's .Most Excellent .Majetity, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled. and by the authority of the same, as follows:- Short title 1. This Act may be cited as " The Diseases in Stock : ~~struction. Acts Amendment Act of 1950," and shall be read as one with *" The Diseases in Stock Acts, 1915 to 1949," herein referred to as the Principal Act. Collective The Principal Act and this Act may collectively be title. cited as " The Diseases in Stock Acts, 1915 to 1950." New s. 2A 2. The following section is inserted after section inserted. two of the Principal Act, namely :- Const.ruction "[2A.] This Act shall be read and construed so as of Act. not to exceed the legislative power of the State to the intent that where any enactment hereof would but for this section have been construed as being in excess of that power it shaD nevertheless be a valid enactment to the extent to which it is not in excess of that power." Amendments 3. Section seven of the Principal Act is amended as of s. 7. follows :- (i.) The first paragraph of and the scale of rates set out in that section and the proviso appearing immediately after that scale are repealed and, in lieu thereof, the following first paragraph, scale of rates, and proviso are inserted, nam~ ly : - "The Minister may in each year make and levy an assessment, at rates to be fixed by him, on each and every owner of stock and, subject as hereinafter provided, each and every such owner shall in each year pay, in respect of stock owned by him, that assessment. * 6 G. 5 No. 16 and amending Acts.

1950. STOCK. Diseases in Stock Acts Amendment Act. The rates as fixed by the Minister of an assessment as aforesaid shall not exceed the following scale, that is to say;- Description of stock. Rate. J 1 (i.) Cattle .. .. (ii.) Horses . . . . A rate of not more than one pound on everyone hundred head or (iii.) Cattle and horses together part of one hundred head. (iv.) Sheep A rate of not more than five shillings on everyone hundred head or part of one hundred head. Provided that- (a) In every case where one and the same owner owns both cattle and horses an assessment as aforesaid shall be deemed to be made and levied on that owner in respect of those horses and cattle together and the amount of the assessment payable in respect of those stock by that owner shall be ascertained by aggregating the respective numbers of cattle and horses; (b) An assessment as aforesaid shall not be payable by an owner in respect of cattle, or horses, or cattle and horses, if the number thereof owned by him is less than eleven or in respect of sheep if the number thereof owned by him is less than one hundred; (c) The Governor in Council may by Order in Council reduce the rates of or wholly remit any assessment as aforesaid." (ii.) The third paragraph of the said section (being the paragraph commencing with the words" The return made") is amended by adding to that paragraph the words "and the last day of the period in any y.ear allowed under or pursuant to that Act for making the return thereby required in that year shall be the date upon which an assessment as aforesaid made and levied in respect of that year shall be due and payable". 247