Meat Legislation Repeal
No. 143 of 1968
An Act to repeal
certain Legislation relating to Meat, and for purposes connected therewith.
[Assented
to 9 December 1968]
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.
1. This Act
may be cited as the Meat Legislation
Repeal Act 1968.
Commencement.
2.This
Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Repeal.
3. The
following Acts are repealed:—Meat
Agreement (Deficiency Payments) Act 1955;
Meat Agreement (Deficiency
Payments) Act 1956;
Meat Agreement (Deficiency
Payments) Act 1964;
Meat Export (Additional
Charge) Act 1956;
Meat Export (Additional
Charge) Act 1964.
Transfer
of Meat Export (Deficiency Payments) Fond to Australian Meat Board.
4. The
moneys and investments that, immediately before the commencement of this Act,
constituted the Meat Export (Deficiency Payments) Fund maintained by the
Australian Meat Board under the Meat
Agreement (Deficiency Payments) Act 1955-1966 shall be deemed to be
moneys and investments of the Board and may be applied and dealt with by the
Board in like manner as any other moneys and investments of the Board.
Bank
account in which moneys in the Fund are lodged to be deemed to be account
maintained by Board.
5. A bank
account in which moneys in the Meat Export (Deficiency Payments) Fund were
lodged in accordance with the Meat
Agreement (Deficiency Payments) Act 1955-1966 immediately before the
commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be an account opened and maintained
under section 33 of the Meat Industry Act
1964