Wheat Pool Act Amendment Act 1949 (WA)

No. 32.] Wheat Pool. [1949.

WHEAT POOL

13° Geo. VI., No. CXVIII.

No. 32 of 1949.

AN ACT to amend the Wheat Pool Act, 1932-1948.

[Assented to 25th October, 1949.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty,by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Short title. 1.

This Act may be cited as the Wheat Pool Act Amendment Act, 1949, and shall be read as one with the Wheat Pool Act, 1932-1948 (Act No. 54 of 1932 as amended by Acts Nos. 61 and 81 of 1948), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Citation of

principal Acl	2.	The principal Act as amended by this Act may be
as amended

by this Act.	cited as the Wheat Pool Act, 1932-1949.
Amendment

f s. 15A.	3.	Section fifteen A of the principal Act is amended
C	f. No. 61

M 1948. by adding thereto a subsection as follows:—

(3) Where in any contract made by or with the Corporation relating to the sale of oats a reference is made to the W.A. standard feed oats then, unless a contrary intention shall appear in the contract, such reference shall be deemed to be a reference to the quality or standard following, that is to say:

(a)	the oats shall be bright and sound and free from musty, smutty or other objection- able smell;
(b)	the oats shall have a natural bushel weight

of not less than thirty-eight pounds;

(c) not less than fourteen per centum of the whole shall be prime oats, that is oats held on a two millimetre sieve;

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(d)	not less than a total of ninety per centum of the whole shall be prime and grade oats, the latter being those held on a 1.5 millimetre sieve.
(e)	not more than a total of ten per centum of the whole shall comprise tailing or screen- ing oats (that is oats passing through a 1.5 millimetre sieve) and foreign matter : Provided that not more than four per centum of such ten per centum shall be foreign matter (foreign matter includes other cereals, oat husks and the like, weed seeds or uncultivated oats) ;
(f)	not more than one-twentieth per centum of the whole, by weight, or five seeds per hundred grammes of the whole shall be speargrass.