WHEAT COMMISSION.
No. 15 of 1935.
An Act to facilitate the
proceedings of the Royal Commission appointed to hold an Inquiry respecting
certain matters in relation to the economic position of the industries of
growing, handling and marketing wheat, manufacturing flour and other
commodities from wheat, and manufacturing, distributing and selling bread.
[Assented to 12th April, 1935.]
BE it
enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Wheat
Commission Act 1935.
Powers, &c., of
Commission.
2.The Commission appointed by the Governor-General on
the twenty-fifth day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, by
Letters Patent, in the name of the King, directed to Sir Herbert William Gepp,
Knight, Thomas Stanley Cheadle, Esquire, Charles Walter Harper, Esquire, Edward
Patrick Michael Sheedy, Esquire, and Professor Samuel MacMahon Wadham, to
inquire into and report upon the economic position of the industries of
growing, handling and marketing wheat, manufacturing flour and other commodities
from wheat, and manufacturing, distributing and selling bread, shall have all
the powers, rights and privileges which are specified in the Royal
Commissions Act 1902–1933 as appertaining to a Royal Commission, and the
provisions contained in that Act shall have effect as if they were herein
enacted and in terms made applicable to the Commission so appointed.
Quorum.
3.