Marketing of Barley Act Amendment Act 1955 (WA)

1955. ] Marketing of Barley. [No. 25.

MARKETING OF BARLEY.

4° Elizabeth II., No. XXV.

No. 25 of 1955.

AN ACT to amend the Marketing of Barley Act,

1946-1952.

[Assented to 11th November, 1955.]

BE 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:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Marketing and citation.

of Barley Act Amendment Act, 1955.

(2) In this Act the Marketing of Barley Act, 1946-

1952,

Act No. 17 of 1946 as amended by Acts Nos. 1 of

1949 and 31 of 1952,

is referred to as the principal Act.

No. 25.] Marketing of Barley. [1955.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Marketing of Barley Act, 1946- 1955.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a day

to be fixed by proclamation.

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amended. 3. Section twenty-three of the principal Act is

amended

(a) by adding after the word, "Act" being the last word in subsection (4), the passage, "and shall out of those proceeds,

pay to The, Trustees of the Soil Fertility Research Fund, mentioned in the Soil Fertility Research Act, 1954, as contri- butions to that Fund, such sums; and

retain and apply in such manner as the Board in its discretion considers to be of benefit to the barley industry, such frac- tions of less than one-eighth of a penny per bushel realised by the Board on dis- posal of the barley;

as a person entitled to compensation directs

in writing";

(b) by adding after subsection (4) the following subsection

(4a) A direction in writing mentioned in subsection (4) of this section is exempt from duty under the Stamp Act, 1921.

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amended.	4. Section forty-one of the principal Act is
Cf. No. 31 of

1952, a. 2; and

amended by substituting for the words, "one thous-

No. 47 of

1952, s. 2 (a).

and nine hundred and fifty-five" the words, "one

thousand nine hundred and seventy-five".