CATTLE AND BEEF RESEARCH.
No. 12 of 1964.
An Act to amend the Cattle and Beef Research Act 1960-1961.
[Assented to 6th May, 1964.]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Cattle and Beef Research Act 1964.
(2.) The Cattle and Beef Research Act 1960–1961 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Cattle and Beef Research Act 1960–1964.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the date fixed by Proclamation under section two of the Meat Industry Act 1964.
Definitions.
3. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of “the Board” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—
“‘the Board’ means the Australian Meat Board continued in existence by the Meat Industry Act 1964;”.
Moneys to be paid into the Research Account.
4.—(1.) Section five of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(a) such portion of each of the amounts of levy received by the Commonwealth under the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Collection Act 1964 (including each amount received from the proprietor of an abattoir in accordance with section seven of that Act and each amount payable by way of penalty in accordance with section nine of that Act) referable to the slaughter of cattle as is prescribed;”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—
“(5.) In this section, ‘cattle’ has the same meaning as in the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964.”.
(2.) Notwithstanding the amendment made by paragraph (a) of the last preceding sub-section, the provisions of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section five of the Principal Act continue to apply in relation to the payment into the Cattle and Beef Research Trust Account of amounts referred to in the last-mentioned paragraph received by the Commonwealth under the Cattle Slaughter Levy Collection Act 1960–1961 and under the last-mentioned Act in its application in pursuance of sub-section (2.) of section three of the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Collection Act 1964.
Australian Cattle and Beef Research Committee.
5. Section eight of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-section (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(a) to make recommendations to the Board with respect to the rate of levy to be prescribed from time to time under sub-section (1.) of section six of the Live-stock Slaughter Levy Act 1964; and”.
Administrative and clerical assistance.
6. Section sixteen of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (3.) the words “section nineteen a of the Meat Export Control Act 1935–1955” and inserting in their stead the words “section thirty-three of the Meat Industry Act 1964”.
Annual Report.
7. Section seventeen of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (2.).