Wool Marketing Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1990 No. 2031

Wool Marketing Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Wool Marketing Act 1987.

Dated 26 June 1990.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

J. KERIN

Minister of State for Primary Industries and Energy

the Corporation, the Corporation may make inquiries arising out of

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Principal Regulations

1. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Wool

Marketing Regulations.

Repeal of regulations 11 and 20

2. Regulations 11 and 20 of the Principal Regulations are repealed.

Persons paying wool tax to furnish details to Corporation in relation to each financial year

3. Regulation 21 of the Principal Regulations is amended by

inserting after subregulation (2) the following subregulations:

“(2A) If a registered person has given the prescribed information to

the information and may direct any person, by notice, within such reasonable period after the making of the direction as is specified in the notice:

(a)	to give to the Corporation information relating to the wool tax paid in respect of any participating wool, where the information sought is specified in the notice; and
(b)	if the person is unable to give some or all of that information to the Corporation—to give to the Corporation a written statement that he or she is unable to give that information, setting out the reasons why he or she is unable to do so.

“(2B) A person to whom a direction is given under subregulation

(2A) must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with the

direction.

Penalty: $1,000.”.

Repeal

4. Regulation 25 of the Principal Regulations is repealed.

5. After regulation 25K of the Principal Regulations the following

regulations are inserted in Part IIA:

Clip preparation, contamination or wool packs— sale of wool for export

“25L. If the Corporation has, under subsection 74 (1) of the Act:

(a) prohibited a person from offering for sale for export; or

(b) ordered a person to withdraw from sale for export;

wool that does not meet industry standards or industry terms in relation

to clip preparation, contamination or wool packs, that person:

(c) must not sell that wool for export or offer that wool for sale for export; and

(d) if that wool has been offered for sale for export—must withdraw

it.

Penalty: $2,000.

Clip preparation, contamination or wool packs—export of wool

“25M. (1) A person must not knowingly export wool that has been

sold in contravention of regulation 25L.

Penalty: $2,000.

“(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply where the wool has, since its

sale, been prepared in accordance with industry standards or industry

terms in relation to clip preparation, contamination or wool packs.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 J u n e 1990.

2. Statutory Rules 1987 No. 132 as amended to date. For previous amendments

see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1990 No. 17 and see also Statutory Rules 1990

Nos. 17, 18 and 53.