Wheat Research Amendment Act 1978 (Cth)

WHEAT RESEARCH AMENDMENT ACT 1978

No. 117 of 1978

An Act to amend the Wheat Research Act 1957.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Wheat Research Amendment Act 1978.

 

(2) The Wheat Research Act 1957 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Money to be paid into the account

3. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(b) amounts required for expenditure approved by the Minister under section 7, not being amounts that, in the aggregate, exceed the aggregate of the amounts paid into the Account by virtue of paragraph (a) of this sub-section;”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (2) “paragraph (a)” and substituting “paragraphs (a) and (b)”.

Formal amendments

4. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE Section 4

FORMAL AMENDMENTS

1. The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting any number expressed in words that is used, whether with or without the addition of a letter or letters, to identify a section of that Act or of another Act, and substituting that number expressed in figures:

Sections 3(1) (definitions of “Committee” and “the Council”), 4(2), 7(1)(b) and (c) and (3)(c), 12(b) and 16.

2. The following provisions of the Principal Act are amended by omitting “of this Act” (wherever occurring):

Sections 3(1) (definitions of “Committee” and “the Council”), 7(1)(b) and (c) and (3)(c), 12(b) and 16.

3. The Principal Act is further amended as set out in the following table:

Provision	Amendment
Section 14(2)..............................	(a) Omit “the first day of July”, substitute “1 July”.
(b) Omit “the thirtieth day of September”, substitute “30 September”.
(c) Omit “One thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven”, substitute “1957”.
Section 18...................................	Omit “thirty-first day of December”, substitute “31 December”.