MEAT AGREEMENT (DEFICIENCY PAYMENTS).
No. 3 of 1956.
An Act to amend the Meat
Agreement (Deficiency Payments) Act 1955.
[Assented to 27th March, 1956.]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent
Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Meat Agreement
(Deficiency Payments) Act 1956.
(2.) The Meat Agreement (Deficiency
Payments) Act 1955 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may
be cited as the Meat Agreement (Deficiency Payments) Act 1955–1956.
Commencement.
2. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, this
Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Meat Export (Deficiency
Payments) Fund.
3.—(1.) Section ten of the Principal Act is amended by
omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-section (2.) the words “Meat
Export (Additional Charge) Act 1955” and inserting in their
stead the words “Meat Export (Additional Charge) Act 1956”.
(2.) The amendment made by this section shall be
deemed to have come into operation on the first day of February, One thousand
nine hundred and fifty-six.
Inspection of books and
accounts.
4. Section thirteen of the Principal Act is
amended by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the word “Act”, the words “or
of the Meat Export (Additional Charge) Act 1956”.
Returns and information.
5. Section fourteen of the Principal Act is
amended by inserting after the word “Act” the words “or of the Meat Export
(Additional Charge) Act 1956”.
Offences.
6. Section fifteen of the Principal Act is
amended by inserting in paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.), after the
word “Act”, the words “, the Meat Export (Additional Charge) Act
1956