Marketing of Primary Products (Amendment) Act 1940 (NSW)

MARKETING OF PRIMARY PRODUCTS

An Act to amend the Marketing of Primary Pro- ducts Act, 1927-1938, in certain respects; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 5th December, 1940.] BE

(AMENDMENT) ACT.

Act No. 42, 1940.

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­

Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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

Primary Products (Amendment) Act, 1940."

(2) The Marketing of Primary Products Act, 1927- 1938, as amended by the Dried Fruits Act, 1939, and by this Act, may be cited as the Marketing of Primary Products Act] 1927-1940.

2 . The Marketing of Primary Products Act, 1927-

1938, as amended by the Dried Fruits Act, 1939, is

amended—

(a) by omitting section 9A and by inserting in lieu thereof the following new section:—

9A. (1) The Governor may, if he is satisfied that it would be in the best interests of the producers of a commodity so to do, by procla­ mation published in the Gazette authorise a board—

(i)   to treat or contract for the treatment of the commodity delivered to it in pur­ suance of this Act; or

(ii)   to prepare by a process of manufacture or contract for the preparation by a process of manufacture any article from such commodity.

(2) The powers, duties and functions conferred or imposed upon a board by this Act in respect of the commodity delivered to it shall, where applicable, extend, mutatis mutandis, to any of the commodity treated or any article prepared in pursuance of an authority conferred under this section.

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