Wheat Research Amendment Act 1979 (Cth)

Wheat Research Amendment Act 1979

No. 172 of 1979

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 1979.

(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.

Moneys to be paid into the Account

3. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting after paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) the following paragraph:

“(aa) amounts equal to the amounts received under the Wheat Tax Act 1979;”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) “paragraph (a)” and substituting “paragraphs (a) and (aa)”; and

(c) by inserting in sub-section (2) “, (aa)” after “paragraphs (a)”.

Separate accounts to be kept

4. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (2) “and”; and

(b) by inserting after paragraph (a) of sub-section (2) the following paragraph:

“(aa) the amounts paid into the Account as amounts equal to the amounts received under the Wheat Tax Act 1979 in respect of wheat sold by the Australian Wheat Board by a contract entered into in the State; and”.

5. Section 18 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:

Annual report

“18. (1) The Minister shall, by 31 December in the year 1980 and in each succeeding year, cause to be prepared and laid before each House of the Parliament a report on the operation of this Act during the year that ended on the preceding 30 June.

“(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), the year ending on 30 June 1980 shall be deemed to include the period commencing on 1 January 1979 and ending on 30 June 1979.”.