EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1988 No 6
Issued by authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy
Horticultural Policy Council Act 1987
Horticultural Policy Council Regulations
Section 29 of the Horticultural Policy Council Act 1987 (‘the Act’) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
Under section 30, the regulations may make provision for or in relation to empowering the Minister to make orders, not inconsistent with the Act, with respect to any matter for or in relation to which provision may be made by the regulations.
Subsection 30(2) provides that an order shall not be made prescribing any penalty.
The proposed Regulation will empower the Minister to make orders.