Milk Act Amendment Act 1947 (WA)

No. 18.1 Milk. [1947.

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No. 18 of 1947

An ACT to amend the Milk Act, 1946.

[Assented to 5th November, 1947.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent Of the Legis-

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Milk Act Amendment

Act, 1947, and shall be read as one with the Milk Act,

1946 (No. 27 of 1946), hereinafter referred to as the

principal Act.

Citation of	2. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be
prim& Act

as amended. P cited as the Milk Act, 1946-1947.

Amendment of s. 30 of3. Section thirty of the principal Act is amended by prineipa/ Act. inserting after subsection four, new subsections as

follows :—

(4A) The Board shall not in any case issue a

treatment license to any applicant therefor if by

the issue of such license, such applicant shall become

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the licensee of more than one-quarter of the total number of treatment licenses issued or to be issued.

(4B) The Board shall not give its approval to the transfer or assignment of a treatment license if the proposed transferee or assignee thereof ig already the licensee of one-quarter or more of the total number of treatment licenses.

(4C) For the purposes of the last two preceding subsections, a proposed transferee or assignee of or an applicant for any treatment license

(a)	being a partner or member of a firm or company which is or becomes the licensee of any treatment license; or
(b)	being a firm or company of which any part- ner or member is or becomes the licensee of any treatment license; or
(c)	being a firm or company the partners or members of which are the same or sub- stantially the same persons as the part- ners or members of a firm or company which is or becomes the licensee of any treatment license

shall be deemed to be the licensee of every treatment license, the licensee whereof is or becomes the firm or company of which the proposed transferee or assignee or the applicant is a partner or member, or the licensee whereof is or becomes a person who is a partner or member of the firm or company which is the proposed transferee or assignee or the applicant.

(4D) No person who is the licensee of a treatment license shalt continue to hold such license if he is a partner or member of a firm or company which is or becomes the licensee of one-quarter or more of the total number of treatment licenses.