Wheat Industry Stabilisation Act Amendment Act 1952 (WA)

WHEAT INDUSTRY STABILISATION.

1° Elizabeth II., No. VII.

No. 7 of 1952

AN ACT to amend the Wheat Industry Stabilisation

Act, 1948-1949.

[Assented to 27th October, 19521

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:—

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

Industry Stabilisation Act Amendment Act, 1952.

(2) In this Act the Wheat Industry Stabilisation

Act, 1948-1949,

Act No. 75 of 1948, as amended by Act No. 49 of

1949,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act, as amended by this Act,

may be cited as the Wheat Industry Stabilisation

Act, 1948-1952.

1952. J Wheat Industry Stabilisation. [No. 7.

2. Section seventeen of the principal Act is Uncle&

amended by

(a) adding before the words, "The price" in line one the figure one in brackets, thus— (1);

(b) adding the following subsections

(2) The Board may sell wheat in the State as feed for poultry, pigs or dairy cattle at a price per bushel equal to the price which would be applicable under the provisions of subsection (1) of this section increased by two shillings.

The price charged by the Board in pursuance of subsection (2) of this section shall not exceed a price calculated on the basis of a price of fourteen shillings per bushel for wholesale sales of bulk wheat of fair average quality f.o.r. ports.

(3)

(4) Subsection (2) of this section does not apply to a sale where the quantity of wheat comprised in the sale, together with the aggregate of the quantities of wheat comprised in all other sales which the Board has, in the year which com- menced on the first day of December next preceding the date of the sale, made in Australia of wheat as feed for poultry, pigs or dairy cattle, would exceed twenty- six million bushels.

(5) The Board may sell wheat in the

State

(a)	as feed for animals other than poultry, pigs or dairy cattle; or
(b)	as feed for poultry, pigs or dairy cattle where, in the year which commenced on the first day of December next preceding the date of the sale, the Board has sold in Australia as such feed not less than twenty-six million bushels of wheat,

at a price calculated on the basis of a price of sixteen shillings and one penny per bushel for wholesale sales of bulk wheat of fair average quality f.o.r. ports.