Primary Producers' Organisation and Marketing Acts Amendment Act of 1962 (Qld)

107 ANNO UNDECIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE •••• ' •••••••••••••••••••••• J •••••••••••••••••••••••• No. 15 of 1962 An Act to Amend "The Primary Producers' Organisation and Marketing Acts, 1926 to 1957," in certain particulars [ASSENTED TO 3RD DECEMBER, 1962] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. (1) Short title. This Act may be cited as "The Primary Producers' Organisation and Marketing .A.cts Amendment A.ct of 1962." (2) Principal Act. "The Primary Producers' Organisation and Marketing A.cts, 1926 to 1957," are in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3) Collective title. The Principal Act and this Act may be collectively cited as "The Primary Producers' Organisation and Marketing .A.cts, 1926 to 1962." 2. Ameadmeat of section 4 (15). Subsection (15) of section four of the Principal Act is amended by- (a) omitting the first proviso; and (b) omitting in the second proviso the wo!'ds "Provided further, that".

108 The Primary Producers' Organisation, Etc., Act of 1962, No. 15 3. Amendment or section lOC. Section 10c of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after the tenth paragraph (being the paragraph commencing with the words "On the amalgamation") the following paragraph and proviso thereto:- "If upon or within three months after the amalgamation, the Joint Board employs any officer or employee of a Board included in the amalgamation, then for the purpose of determining, in relation to his employment by the Joint Board, the right of such officer or employee to annual leave, sick leave or long service leave, or any other right or privilege had by him in respect of his employment by the Joint Board, the periods of his service with the Board and the Joint Board respectively which, if they were one and the same employer, would aggregate unbroken continuous service under and for the purposes of section seventeen of "The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration A.ct of 1961", shall be taken into account in calculating the length of his continuous service with the Joint Board: Provided that in determining any right or privilege of such an employee in relation to his employment by the Joint Board, any period of service had by him with the Board included in the amalgamation in respect whereof he has received that right or privilege shall not be taken into account." 4. New section 27 A inserted. The Principal Act is amended by inserting after section twenty-seven the following section:- " [27A.] Unclaimed moneys. (1) A Board may transfer to such of its funds as may be approved by the Minister any moneys which have remained unclaimed in its hands for not less than three years, and thereupon such moneys shall become and be the property of the Board. If at any time subsequent to such transfer, any person establishes a claim to such moneys the Board may, with the approval of the Minister, make payment thereof to him from the fund or funds whereto such moneys were transferred. (2) For the purposes of this section the Committee of Direction appointed under ••rhe Fruit Marketing Organisation Acts, 1923 to 1956," shall be deemed to be a Board, and the State Wheat Board shall be deemed to be a Board." 5. Amendment or section 30 (8). Subsection (8) of section thirty of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the third proviso to paragraph (e) and inserting in its stead the following proviso:- "Provided further that before any particular levy is made- (a) by the Queensland Cane Growers' Council, at the request in writing of not less than ten per centum of the growers supplying cane to mills throughout the State, a poll of such growers shall be held as prescribed; (b) by a district cane growers' executive, at the request in writing of not less than twenty per centum (or such lesser number as may be approved) of the growers supplying cane to mills within the district concerned, a poll of such growers shall be held as prescribed;

The Primary Producers' Organisation, Etc., Act of 1962, No. 15 (c) by a mill suppliers' committee, at the request in writing of not less than twenty per centum (or such lesser number as may be approved) of the growers supplying cane to the mill concerned, a poll of such growers shall be held as prescribed, and if upon such poll the majority of votes is against the making of the levy in question it shall not be made; and that regulations under this Act may prescribe the means whereby, including the funds wherefrom, the costs and expenses of such a poll may be defrayed.,. 109