EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1988 NO. 197
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy
AUSTRALIAN MEAT AND LIVE-STOCK CORPORATION ACT 1977
AUSTRALIAN MEAT AND LIVE-STOCK CORPORATION REGULATIONS
Section 52 of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Act 1977 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
Subsection 8(3A) of the Act provides that the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation (AMLC) may, in co-operation with the Australian Pork Corporation (APC) and as part of a prescribed scheme for the marketing of meat or live-stock, do such things in relation to the marketing of pigmeat or pigs as the AMLC considers appropriate.
Section 16 of the Act provides that the AMLC may appoint a committee to assist the AMLC in relation to a matter, and that the committee shall consist of such persons, whether members of the AMLC or not, as the AMLC thinks fit.
Following advice from the AMLC and the APC, pigs and pigmeat are to be included in the AMLC’s CALM and AUS-MEAT schemes (which are, respectively,
a computer-assisted livestock marketing facility and a uniform trade description nomenclature operated by committees appointed by the AMLC as required by section 16 of the Act).
The proposed Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Regulations prescribe AUS-MEAT and CALM as prescribed schemes for the marketing of pork as required by subsection 8(3A) of the Act.