Marketing of Primary Products (Amendment) Act 1970 (NSW)

MARKETING OF PRIMARY PRODUCTS

(AMENDMENT) ACT.

ANNO UNDEVICESIMO

ELIZABETHE II REGINE

Act No. 38, 1970.

An Act to make further provision with respect to payments for rice delivered under the Marketing of Primary Products Act, 1927; for this purpose to amend that Act; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 17th September, 1970.]

This Act may be cited as the "Marketing of Primary Products (Amendment) Act, 1970".
Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in	BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1.

2 .      The Marketing of Primary Products Act, 1927, is

amended by inserting next after section fourteen the follow­
ing new section : —

14A. (1) At the request of a board constituted under this Act in relation to rice, the Minister may, from time to time, approve schemes proposed by the board and making provision for or with respect to the variation of the basis upon which payments are to be made under subsection two of section fourteen of this Act in respect of rice delivered to the board.

(2 ) A scheme shall apply in respect of rice specified or described therein and delivered to the board during or covering a period of time that is—

(a)	prescribed in pursuance of subsection two of section fourteen of this Act in relation to the board; and
(b)	specified in the scheme.

(3) Where, during the period of time specified in a scheme, rice is delivered to the board, the board shall make payments under subsection two of section fourteen of this Act in respect of that rice on the basis prescribed by that subsection as varied by or under the scheme.

(4) The Minister may—

(a) cancel or vary a scheme in accordance with a request made by the board in that behalf; or

(b) cancel a scheme without any request having been made by the board in that behalf, if he gives the board at least three months' notice of his inten­ tion to do so.

(5) A scheme shall not be cancelled under this section if any payments have been made under subsec­ tion two of section fourteen of this Act on the basis prescribed by that subsection as varied by or under the scheme.

(6 )
(6) A scheme, and any variations thereof under

this section, shall be in writing.

(7 ) In this section (other than subsection one

of this section)—

"scheme" means a scheme approved under subsec­

tion one of this section;

"the board", in relation to a scheme, means the board at whose request the scheme was approved under subsection one of this section.

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