DRIED FRUITS
No. 59 of 1933.
An Act to amend the Dried Fruits Act 1928.
[Assented to 14th December, 1933.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent
Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Australia, as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Dried Fruits Act 1933.
(2.) The Dried
Fruits Act 1928 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may
be cited as the Dried Fruits Act 1928–1933.
Definition.
2. Section two of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the
definition of “dried fruits” and inserting in its stead the following
definition:—
“‘dried fruits’ means any of the following
dried fruits, whether completely dried or in the process of being dried, namely
currants, sultanas, lexias, prunes, apricots, peaches, pears and nectarines.
Duration
of section two in relation to prunes, etc.
3.—(1.) If
at a poll of growers of the following kinds of dried fruits, namely prunes,
apricots, peaches, pears and nectarines, taken in the prescribed manner
throughout the Commonwealth within six months after the commencement of this
Act, less than a majority of the votes are given in favour of the continuance
of section two of this Act, so far as it relates to those kinds of dried
fruits, that section shall cease to have effect in relation to those kinds of
dried fruits upon a date to be fixed by proclamation not being later than one
month after the expiration of the period of six months from the commencement of
this Act.
(2.) For the purposes of this section “growers”
means persons who, during the twelve months ended on the thirtieth day of June
immediately preceding the taking of a poll under the last preceding
sub-section, produced from fruit grown by them not less than ten hundredweight
of any one or more of the following kinds of dried fruits, namely, prunes,
apricots, peaches, pears or nectarines.