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AUSTRALIAN WOOL REALISATION COMMISSION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1992 NO.205

STATUTORY RULES 1992 No. 205

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

AUSTRALIAN WOOL REALISATION COMMISSION ACT 1991

Australian Wool Realisation Commission Regulations (Amendment)

Section 72 of the Australian Wool Realisation Commission Act 1991 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Subsection 39(6) of the Act, which refers to persons who may not be appointed as a member of the Australian Wool Realisation Commission (AWRC), has recently been amended. The subsection now includes 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 AWRC. A change to the corresponding regulation is therefore required. The proposed regulation prescribes the major national wool industry organisations, members of which or of the executives of which (as the case may be) are ineligible for appointment to the AWRC because those organisations are represented on the Australian Wool Industry Council which has been established under the Australian Wool Industry Council Act 1991.

Subsection 69(2) of the Act provides for the prescribing of particulars (if any) which are to be included in the AWRC'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 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 omits regulation 5 and inserts a new regulation 5 listing the organisations whose members, or members of their executives (as the case may be), are not eligible to be members of the AWRC.

Regulation 4 inserts a new regulation 5A which lists the particulars to be included in the AWRC's annual report.