Meat Industry (Amendment) Act 1971 (NSW)

MEAT INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) ACT.

ANNO VICESIMO

ELIZABETHS II BEGINS

Act No. 19 ,1971 .

An Act relating to the compensation payable by the Metropolitan Meat Industry Board in respect of animals, carcases and meat condemned in the public abattoir as diseased or unfit for human consumption; for this purpose to amend the Meat Industry Act, 1915; to validate certain matters; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 25th May, 1971.] BE

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative	Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: —

1. This Act may be cited as the "Meat Industry (Amend­

ment ) Act, 1971" .

1. (1) The Meat Industry Act, 1915, is amended—

(a)

by omitting from subsection three of section twenty- one the words "shall pay to the owner thereof such reasonable compensation" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "may, if it thinks fit, pay to the owner thereof such amount in respect thereof";

(b)

by omitting from subsection three of section twenty- two the words "shall pay the owner thereof such reasonable compensation as the Board may deter­ mine: Provided that where any animal has been condemned and destroyed by an inspector and found after slaughter to be healthy, the owner of such animal shall be allowed full market value for same" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "may, if it thinks fit, pay to the owner thereof such amount in respect thereof as the Board may determine".

(2 ) The amendments made by subsection one of this

section shall be deemed to have commenced upon the day

upon which the Meat Industry Act, 1915, commenced.

( 3 ) The provisions of sections twenty-one and twenty-

two of the Meat Industry Act, 1915, as amended by subsec­ tion one of this section shall have and be deemed always to have had effect with respect to all animals, carcases and meat which became the absolute property of the Board under any of those provisions, as in force at any time before the commencement of this Act.

( 4 )

(4 ) Any amount paid by the Board under any of the provisions of section twenty-one or twenty-two of the Meat Industry Act, 1915, as in force at any time before the com­ mencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been paid under those provisions, as amended by subsection one of this section.

(5 ) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections one and two of this section the Board shall be liable to pay the costs of the Plaintiff as ordered to be paid in the suit Bawn Pty. Limited v. The Metropolitan Meat Industry Board (No. 1112 of 1970) in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in Equity.

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