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AUSTRALIAN WOOL CORPORATION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1992 NO. 204

STATUTORY RULES 1992 No. 204

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

AUSTRALIAN WOOL CORPORATION ACT 1991

Australian Wool Corporation Regulations (Amendment)

Section 94 of the Australian Wool Corporation Act 1991 (the Act) provides that the GovernorGeneral may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

The following sections of the Act have been recently amended:

Section 26 concerns payments to the Commonwealth for exotic animal disease control. Under this section, the annual contribution to the Commonwealth from the Australian Wool Corporation (AWC) for exotic animal disease control is now prescribed each year, instead of the contribution being listed as applicable for each year up to 1994/95. Contributions may also be paid quarterly rather than in one annual amount on 1 July each year;

Subsection 49(6) concerns membership of the AWC. This subsection now includes a provision that an individual who is a member of a prescribed wool industry organisation, or an individual who is a member of the executive of a prescribed wool industry organisation, may not be appointed to the AWC. Members of the prescribed organisations, which are the major national wool industry organisations, or of their executives (as the case may be) are ineligible for appointment to the AWC because those organisations are represented on the Australian Wool Industry Council which has been established under the Australian Wool Industry Council Act 1991; and

Section 77 concerns the registration of certain wool premises as part of the process of ensuring the integrity of the wool prior to sale and the new section 77A enables the organisation which carries out the registration function to be prescribed.

As a result of these changes to the Act, amendment of, or additions to, the existing regulations are required.

In addition, subsection 91(2) of the Act provides for the prescribing of particulars (if any) which are to be included in the AWC's annual report. The proposed regulations list the items concerned. The list follows current guidelines for the content, preparation and presentation of annual reports by statutory authorities issued by the Senate.

The details of the proposed regulations are as follows:

Regulation 1 provides for regulation 3 to commence on 1 July 1992, regulations 4 and 5 to commence on the commencement of the Primary Industries and Energy Legislation Amendment Act (No 2) 1992, and for the remaining regulations to commence on gazettal.

Regulation 2 provides for amendment of the regulations.

Regulation 3 amends the existing regulation concerning payment to the Commonwealth of the AWC contribution for exotic animal disease control so that the currently prescribed amount of $204,595 is payable only in respect of the 1992/93 financial year.

Regulation 4 omits regulation 6 and inserts two new regulations

-       new regulation 6 lists the organisations whose members, or members of their executives (as the case may be), are not eligible to be members of the AWC;

-       new regulation 7 specifies that the National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia is the registering authority for the specified wool premises.

Regulation 5 inserts a new regulation 8 which lists the particulars to be included in the AWCs annual report.