WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
HONEY POOL.
No. 73 of 1978.
AN ACT to establish the Honey Pool of Western Australia to provide for the marketing of honey and for related purposes.
[Assented to 20th October, 1978.]
RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council and the Legislative
Assembly of Western Australia, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows:—
1. This Act may be cited as the Honey Pool Act, Short title.
1978.
| 2. | This Act shall come into operation on a date Commence- | ment. |
to be fixed by proclamation.
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| Repeal. | 3. The Honey Pool Act, 1955-1970 is repealed. |
| Interpre- | |
| tation. | 4. In this Act unless the contrary intention |
appears
"Board" means the Board of the Honey Pool;
"Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board;
"Corporation" means the body corporate known as Westralian Farmers Co-operative Limited registered under the Companies (Co-operative) Act, 1943-1976;
"Director" means a Director of the Board and includes the Chairman;
"honey" means honey that conforms to the prescribed quality;
"Honey Pool" means the Honey Pool of Western Australia established under section 5;
"participant" means a person who voluntarily delivers honey to the Board for a pool or on whose behalf honey is so delivered, and where honey is so delivered on behalf of any partnership agreement, includes each party to such an agreement;
"pool" means a honey pool formed by the Board to facilitate the marketing of honey;
"prescribed participant" means a participant who is one of a class of participants prescribed by the regulations;
"section" means a section of this Act;
"subsection" means a subsection of the section wherein that term is used.
| Establish- | 5. (1) For the purposes of this Act, there is |
| ment. |
hereby established the Honey Pool of Western
Australia.
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(2) The Honey Pool of Western Australia
| (a) | is a body corporate with perpetual succession and shall have a common seal; |
| (b) | is capable, in its corporate name, of acquiring, holding and disposing of real and personal property and of suing and being sued; |
| (c) | is capable of doing and suffering all such acts and things as bodies corporate may lawfully do and suffer. |
(3) All courts and persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the common seal of the Honey Pool of Western Australia affixed to any document and shall presume that it was duly affixed thereto.
6. The Honey Pool is not an agent or servant of one Pool
represent
| the Crown. | the Crown. |
7. Subject to the Minister, the Honey Pool shall tidartiothnisa
| carry out the administration of this Act. | thin Act. |
8. (1) The governing authority of the Honey grolgs.
Pool is the Board of Directors.
(2) The Board shall consist of six Directors
appointed by the Governor, namely
| (a) | one person shall be a person who is nominated for appointment by the Minister on the nomination of the Corporation; and |