Wheat Industry Stabilization and Wheat Quotas (Amendment) Act 1969 (NSW)

D E it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by

and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as

follows : —

1. This Act may be cited as the "Wheat Industry
Stabilization and Wheat Quotas (Amendment) Act, 1969".

1. (1) The Wheat Industry Stabilization Act, 1968, is

amended—

(a) by inserting next after subsection nine of section fourteen the following new subsection : —

(10) Amounts paid by the Board in respect of expenses incurred or paid by a licensed receiver in connection with the administration of a law of this or any other State relating to wheat quotas shall be deemed, for the purposes of subsection five of this section, to be costs of administration referred to in that subsection.

(b) by inserting next after section twenty the following new section : —

20A. (1) Notwithstanding section twenty of this Act, the Board may sell wheat for use in Australia otherwise than in the manufacture of substances for human consumption at such prices as the Board determines, being prices less than the prices that would be applicable under that section, but no such sale shall be made at a price less than the minimum price applicable in accordance with this section.

(2) The minimum price in respect of a wholesale sale of bulk wheat of fair average quality free on rails at a port of export is the price per bushel for such a sale that corresponds with a free on board price equal to the guaranteed price of" wheat of the season that was current at the- beginning of the year in which the sale is made. (3).

(3) The minimum price in respect of a sale other than a sale referred to in subsection two of this section is a price per bushel ascertained by adding to or deducting from the minimum price per bushel referred to in that subsection an amount that makes a proper allowance for the quality of the wheat, the conditions of sale and the place of delivery.

(4) Where the Board sells wheat for use in Australia in the manufacture of substances for human consumption and the manufacture will result also in the production of substances for use for purposes other than human consumption, the Board may agree to allow the purchaser a rebate not exceeding the amount by which the price charged by the Board for the wheat could have been reduced in accordance with this section if the sale of so much of the wheat as is equal in weight to the weight of the substances produced, or to the estimated weight of the substances that will be produced, from the wheat for use for purposes other than human consumption had been a sale to which subsection one of this section applied.

(5) In respect of every sale of wheat in
accordance with subsection one of this section, the

Board shall credit to the account referred to in

subsection one of section twenty-one of this Act
an amount per bushel of wheat comprised in the

sale equal to the amount that is, at the time of the sale, the amount per bushel by which prices are to be increased under subsection four of section twenty of this Act for the purpose of reimbursing the Board for costs of shipment of wheat to the State of Tasmania, and section twenty-one of this Act applies in relation to amounts so credited in like manner as it applies in relation to other moneys credited to that account.

(6)

(6) In this section, "year" means a period of twelve months commencing on the first day of December.

(2) The amendments made by paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection one of this section shall commence upon such day or days as may be appointed by the Governor in respect thereof and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

(1) The Grain Elevators Act, 1954, is amended by

inserting next after subsection two of section 1 2A the following
new subsection : —

3.

(2A) Quotas for the delivery of wheat may be

allocated to wheatgrowers in pursuance of a scheme.

(2) The amendment made by subsection one of this section shall be deemed to have commenced upon the twenty- third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven.

(1) The Wheat Quotas Act, 1969, is amended by inserting in subsection five of section twenty-seven after the word "shall" the words ", if so required by the Grain Elevators Board,".

4.

(2) The amendment made by subsection one of this section shall be deemed to have commenced upon the

seventeenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and

sixty-nine.

BOARD