Newcastle District Abattoir and Sale-yards (Amendment) Act 1931 (NSW)

NEWCASTLE DISTRICT

ABATTOIR AND SALE-YARDS

(AMENDMENT) ACT.

Act No. 18, 1981.

No. IB, 1931 George V, An Act to Confer certain additional powers and

authorities upon the Newcastle District Abattoir Board; to validate certain actions of the Board; to amend the Newcastle Dis­ trict Abattoir and Sale-yards Act, 1912, and certain other Acts; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 22nd May, 1931.]

T )E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, I f by and with the advice and consent oi: tlie Legis­ lative Council and JjCgislative Assembly of New >Sonth Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the autliority of the same, as follows ;—

S h o n t i t le . 1. This Act may be cited as tlie “ Newcastle Dis­

trict Abattoir and Sale-vards (Amendment) Act, 1931.”

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(Amendment) Act. Ho. 18, 1931.

2. The Newcastle District Abattoir and Sale-yards Amendment of ̂ Act No. 49 ,19ia,

Act, 1912, as amended by subsequent Acts, is amended —

(a) by inserting in section two after the definition

of “ Local newspaper” the following Jetini-

tion :—

2.

“ Meat ” means the whole or any part of an Jjg 7

animal such as is used for human con-	'
sumption.

(b) by inserting at the end of section nine the following new subsection :— 9-

(4) The board may also, if it thinks fit— Additional

(a) establish, maintain, and conduct works -iitiiorities.

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for canning,pieserving,curing,smoking,

chilling, and freezing meat;

(b) purchase cattle and m eat;

(c) sell either on its own behalf or on behalf of any other person cattle and meat, including bacon, ham, sausages, saveloys, and other small goods manu­ factured or prepared from a carcase or any portion thereof.

(c) by inserting in section twelve after the word See. 12.

.	“ sale-yards ” wherever occurring the words (Acquisition
“ and for any other of the board’s authorised ̂ '

purposes or objects ” ;

(d) by inserting after subsection four of section	COarcases
?Scc. 19.

nineteen the following new subsection	district. )
brought into

(4 a ) N o person shall within the district, of. Act No.

except with the consent of the board, sell or attempt to sell or expose for sale or allow or cause to be sold or exposed for sale for human consumption any carcase or portion of a car­ case which has been slaughtered within or brought into the district otherwise than in

’	accordance with this Act.
Whosoever contravenes any provision of this subsection shall be liable upon summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

Newcastle District Abattoir and Sale-yards

No. 18, 1931, (Amendment) Act.

Amendment _ 3. (1) The Newcastle District Abattoir and Salc-

191L’, as amended by subsequent Acts, is

23, ’ ’ amended by omitting sections twenty-two and twenty- three and by inserting in lieu thereof the following sections;—

Accounts and 22. (1) The board shall cause proper books of

audit. account to be kept in relation to each department of the board, and shall, as soon as practicable after the thirtieth day of June in each year, prepare and transmit to the Minister for presentation to Parlia­ ment balance-sheets and statements of account setting forth a true statement of the financial position and the transactions of the hoard in its several departments for the preceding financial year, audited by the Auditor-General.

(2) Each such balance-sheet and statement

shall include—

(a) a profit and loss account;

(b) statement of the assets and liabilities of the hoard,

and be in a form approved by the Auditor-General.

(3) The Auditor-General shall have, with

respect to such accounts, all the powers conferred

on him by the Audit Act, 1902, and Acts amending

the same.

(4) The Audit Act, 1902, and Acts amending the same, shall apply to the board and its officers in the same manner as it applies to accounting officers of public departments.

(5) W ithout limiting the generality of the powers conferred by subsection three of this section, the Auditor-General may disallow any expenditure or entry in the books of the board which he con­ siders has been wrongly, irregularly, or dishonestly made.

(G) Any sum so disallowed shall be a sur- chai’geupon and may be recovered or deducted from moneys due to the officers or servants by whom the expenditure was incurred or ordered to be incurred, or by whom the entry was made or ordered to be

made.

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made, but such officers or servants sliall have the

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same right of appeal agaiust such surcliarge as is

prescribed under the Audit Act, 19(>2.

'i'S. The hoard shall in each year pay into the tor

Treasury such sum as is fixed liy tlie Colonial‘S' ‘ '

'I'reasurcr towards the cost of the audit of the

accounts of the hoard by the Auditor-General.

(2) This section shall commence upon a date to he appointed by the Goveiaior and notified by procla­ mation publislied in the Gazette.

4. The actions of the hoard in acting as though the \’aiiaati<.n,

law had been in accordance with the amendments in

section two of this Act are hereby validated.