Milk Authority (Amendment) Act 1984 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Milk Authority (Amendment) Ordinance 1984

No. 71 of 1984

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 27 November 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

TOM UREN

Minister of State for Territories and Local Government

An Ordinance to amend the Milk Authority Ordinance 1971

Short title

1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Milk Authority (Amendment) Ordinance 1984.¹

Principal Ordinance

2.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Milk Authority Ordinance 1971.²

Revocation of licences or permits

3.  Section 28 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by inserting in paragraph (1) (h) “unless proceedings have been commenced against the holder of the licence or permit for an offence under section 30—” before “that”.

Orders pending investigation of complaints, &c.

4.  Section 30 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

“(4)  A person, being the holder of a licence or permit whose name is specified in an order pursuant to sub-section (1), who fails to comply with that order is guilty of an offence punishable, on conviction, by a fine not exceeding $1,000.”.

Repeal—offence

5.  Section 49A of the Principal Ordinance is repealed.

Repeal—failure or refusal to make return

6.  Section 50 of the Principal Ordinance is repealed.

Further amendments

7.  The Principal Ordinance is further amended by omitting the penalty set out at the foot of each of the provisions specified in Column 1 of the Schedule and substituting the penalty specified in Column 2 of the Schedule opposite to the reference to that provision.

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SCHEDULE   Section 7

AMENDMENTS RELATING TO PENALTIES

Column 1

Provision

Column 2

Substituted penalty

Sub-section 5 (3)

Sub-section 5 (5)

Section 17A

Sub-section 21 (1)

Sub-section 21 (3)

Sub-section 21 (5)

Sub-section 22 (1)

Sub-section 22 (2)

Sub-section 22 (4)

Sub-section 22 (5)

Section 36

Section 37

Section 38

Section 42

Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.

Penalty: $1,000.

Penalty—

    (a)                  if the offender is a body corporate—$10,000; or

    (b)     if the offender is a natural person—$2,000.

Penalty: $1,000.

Penalty: $1,000.

Penalty: $1,000.

Penalty: $1,000.

Penalty: $1,000.

Penalty: $500.

Penalty: $500.

Penalty: $1,000.

Penalty: $1,000.

Penalty: $200.

Penalty: $1,000.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 5 December 1984.

2. No. 23, 1971 as amended by Nos. 15 and 28, 1972; Nos. 7 and 55, 1973; No. 55, 1974; Nos. 17 and 23, 1975; No. 61, 1976; No. 11, 1978; No. 50, 1983; Act No. 74, 1981.