Marketing of Eggs Act Amendment Act 1969 (WA)

No. 110.] Marketing of Eggs. [1969.

MARKETING OF EGGS

No. 110 of 1969.

AN ACT to continue the operation of, and to amend,

the Marketing of Eggs Act, 1945-1965.

[Assented to 25th November, 1969.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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

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

Eggs Act Amendment Act, 1969.

vol. 17

Reprinted	(2)	In this Act the Marketing of Eggs Act, 1945-
Acts.

Approved	1965, is referred to as the principal Act.
for reprint
12th July,
1960, as

amended by	(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act
Acts No. 14

of 1980 and	may be cited as the Marketing of Eggs Act, 1945-
No. 23 of
1965.	1969.

1969.] Marketing of Eggs. [No. 110.

2. Section 5 of the principal Act is amended— S. 5 amended.

(a) by substituting for the interpretation, "commercial producer", the following interpretation

"commercial producer" means a producer who owns at least two hundred and fifty head of adult female poultry and who has delivered on his own account at least three thousand dozen eggs to the Board in the immediately preceding period of twelve months; and

(b) by adding after subsection (2) the following subsection

(3) For the purposes of the interpreta- tion "commercial producer" contained in subsection (1) of this section, any eggs sold by a producer pursuant to a permit granted by the Board under section twenty-three of this Act to him or to the purchaser of the eggs shall be deemed to have been delivered by that producer to the Board.

S. 7 amended.

3. Section 7 of the principal Act is amended—

(a)	by deleting paragraph (a) of subsection (3);
(b)	by substituting for the word "two" in the first line of paragraph (c) of subsection (3) the word "three"; and
(c)	by repealing subsection (4) and re-enacting it as follows

(4) A person who is a member of the Board by virtue of paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of this section shall forfeit his office if for any continuous period of three months he fails to hold the qualifications required for his election.

No. 110.] Marketing of Eggs. [1969.

S. 12 repealed

and	4.	Section 12 of the principal Act is repealed and
re-enacted.

re-enacted, as follows-

Terms of

°Dice.	12. (1) Each member of the Board includ- ing the Chairman shall hold office subject to good behaviour for a period of three years from the date of his appointment, and shall be eligible for re-nomination or re-election as the case may be.
(2) The person holding office as Chairman of the Board on the date of the coming into operation of the Marketing of Eggs Act Amend- ment Act, 1969 shall continue, subject to this Act, to hold office subject to good behaviour for the term of three years commencing on that date. .

B. 40	5.	Section 40 of the principal Act is repealed.
amended.