Dried Vine
Fruits Equalization Amendment Act 1984
No. 147 of 1984
An Act to amend
section 10 of the Dried Vine Fruits
Equalization Act 1978
[Assented to 25 October 1984]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the
Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as
follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Amendment Act 1984.
(2) The Dried Vine Fruits Equalization Act 19781is in this Act referred to as the Principal
Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come
into operation on 1 December 1984.
Time
for payment of levy
3. Section 10 of the
Principal Act is amended—
(a)
by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “third”; and
(b)
by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:
“(1a) For the purposes of sub-section (1),
dried fruit that has come into the custody of a packer shall be taken to
continue to be in the custody of the packer so long as it is in the custody of,
or is in the course of being sent by the packer to—
(a)
an agent appointed by the packer to sell the dried fruit; or
(b)
a person to whom the dried fruit is sent by the packer for re-packing on behalf
of the packer.”.
Application
4. (1) The amendments made by
this Act apply only to dried fruit that was in the custody of the packer
immediately before the commencement of this Act or comes into the custody of
the packer after that commencement, and the Principal Act as in force
immediately before that commencement continues to apply to dried fruit that
ceased to be in the custody of the packer before that commencement.
(2) Expressions used in this
section have the same meanings as those expressions have in the Principal Act.
NOTE
1. No. 195,
1978, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 80, 1982; and No. 39, 1983.