Marketing of Potatoes Amendment Regulations 1996 (WA)

17 January 1997] GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 405

AGRICULTURE

AG301

MARKETING OF POTATOES ACT 1946

MARKETING OF POTATOES AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1996

Made by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1.     These regulations may be cited as the Marketing of Potatoes Amendment

Regulations 1996.

Commencement

2.      These regulations come into operation on the day after the day they are

published in the Gazette.

(a) the subject of an area licence and of a permit to sell;

Principal regulations

3.     In these regulations the Marketing of Potatoes Regulations 1987* are

referred to as the principal regulations.

1* Published in the Gazette 18 September 1987 at pp. 3659-89.

For amendments to 27 November 1996 see 1995 Index to

Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 186.1

Regulation 62A inserted

4.      After regulation 62 of the principal regulations the following regulation

is inserted —

di

Sale or transaction in respect of which an exemption under section 25 (3) may be granted

62A. Sales or transactions where a grower sells or delivers potatoes to a potato product manufacturer or a potato exporter, and those potatoes are —

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(b)	delivered in bulk containers of a capacity exceeding 5 tonnes; and
(c)	grown within 100 kilometres of the point of delivery,

are prescribed under section 25 (3) (d) of the Act. )1

Regulation 70 amended

5.      Regulation 70 (b) of the principal regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting "and" after subparagraph (i);
(b)	substituting the following —

by deleting the full stop at the end of subparagraph (ii) and

and "; and

(c) by inserting after subparagraph (ii) the following —

lt

(iii) making payments to growers so that, in the opinion of the Corporation, a fair return is made to growers when unusual market conditions prevail. If

By His Excellency's Command,

J. PRITCHARD, Clerk of the Council.