Skeleton Weed (Eradication Fund) Amendment Act 1980 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

SKELETON WEED

(ERADICATION FUND).

No. 56 of 1980.

AN ACT to amend the Skeleton Weed (Eradication

Fund) Act 1974-1979.

[Assented to 24 November 1980.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Skeleton	and
Short title

Weed (Eradication Fund) Amendment Act 1980. citation.

(2) In this Act the Skeleton Weed (Eradication	of 1974
Act No. 76

Fund) Act 1974-1979 is referred to as the principal	as amended
by Acts
Act.	Nos. 89 of
1976 and
21 of 1979.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Skeleton Weed and Resistant Grain Insects (Eradication Funds) Act 1974-1980.

Long title

amended. 2. The long title to the principal Act is

amended

(a) by deleting "purpose" and substituting the following-

" purposes " ; and

(b) by deleting "weed." at the end thereof and substituting the following-

" weed and the establishment of a Fund for the eradication of certain insect pests. ".

Section 1

amended. 3. Section 1 of the principal Act is amended by deleting "Skeleton Weed (Eradication Fund) Act," and substituting the following-

" Skeleton Weed and Resistant Grain Insects

(Eradication Funds) Act ".

Section 4

amended. 4. Section 4 of the principal Act is amended by inserting before the definition "section" the follow- ing definition

"resistant grain insects" means insects

that

(a) belong to a class of animals which, by reason of their detrimental effect on grain, are declared under the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976 to be declared animals for the purposes of that Act, being a class of animals assigned under that Act to category A5 in respect of the whole or any part of the State; and

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(b) the Protection Board believes, on the basis of scientific evidence available to it, have a resistance to insecticides that are in general use to such an extent as to render those insecticides inadequate for the eradication of those insects; "

Section 6

5. Section 6 of the principal Act is amended by amended.

inserting after "Fund" the following-

" , other than those referred to in paragraph

(d) of subsection (1) of section 7, " .

Section 7

6. Section 7 of the principal Act is amended in amended.

subsection (1)-

(a)	by deleting "and" after paragraph (b); and
(b)	by deleting "Act." at the end of paragraph (c) and substituting the following-

" Act; and

(d) such amounts of money to the Resistant Grain Insects Eradication Fund established under section 8A as are authorized by or under that section. " .

Sections

7. After section 8 of the principal Act, the 8A-8C

following sections are inserted-	inserted.
Resistant

" 8A. (1) There shall be established and kept

Grain

Insects

at the Treasury a fund to be known as the

Eradication

Resistant Grain Insects Eradication Fund.

Fund.

(2) There shall be paid to the Resistant Grain

Insects Eradication Fund from the Skeleton

Weed Eradication Fund an initial amount of

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twenty thousand dollars and from time to time thereafter such further amounts as the Minister approves but so that

(a)	no such payment shall be made that brings the total of the moneys standing to the credit of the Resistant Grain Insects Eradication Fund to more than twenty thousand dollars; and
(b)	the total amount so paid during any period of twelve months ending on the thirty-first day of October does not exceed twenty thousand dollars.

Payments

to be

8B. Subject to the Minister, all payments out

approved.

of the Resistant Grain Insects Eradication Fund shall be approved of by the Protection Board.

Application

8C. (1) The Resistant Grain Insects Eradica- (2) Any moneys standing to the credit of the Resistant Grain Insects Eradication Fund may, until required for the purposes of this Act, be temporarily invested by the Treasurer in any securities approved by the Treasurer, and all interest derived from the investment shall be paid to the credit of the Resistant Grain Insects Eradication Fund.

or Resistant

Grain

Insects

tion Fund shall be applied to the payment of

Eradication

Fund.

expenses directly related to the eradication of

resistant grain insects.

Moneys standing to the credit of the Resistant Grain Insects Eradication Fund at the time that this Act expires shall be dealt with as if the moneys were standing to the credit of the Skeleton Weed Eradication Fund. " .

(3)