Wheat Pool Act Amendment Act (No. 2) 1948 (WA)

No. 61.] Wheat Pool (No. 2). [1948.

WHEAT POOL (No. 2).

12' and 13° GEO. VI., No. LXI.

No. 61 of 1948.

AN ACT to amend the Wheat Pool Act, 1932.

[Assented to 21st January, 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 (No. 2), 1948, and shall be read as one

with the Wheat Pool Act, 1932 (Act No. 54 of 1932),

hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Amendment	2.	Section two of the principal Act is amended by
of s. 2.

inserting after the definition of "Growers' Council" a

new definition as follows :—

"Minister" means the Minister for Agriculture or other Minister of the Crown for the time being charged with the administration of this Act.

New section

15A inserted. 3. A section is inserted in the principal Act after

section fifteen as follows:-

Corporation	15A. (1) Subject to and with the approval of
may establish

and maintain	the Minister, the Corporation may establish and
oat pools.
maintain each year one or more separate voluntary oat pool or pools for the reception, handling, sale and disposal of oats.
(2) For the purposes of this section, the word "wheat" wherever occurring in subsections (1), (2) and (7) of section fifteen of this Act and in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of subsection (5) of the said section fifteen, and in sections eighteen, nineteen and twenty of this Act, shall include oats.