Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FARM HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT ACT 1992 - SECT 52C

             (1)  The Minister may, by written instrument:

                     (a)  formulate a scheme for the provision of payments, to be made after the DSAP payment start day, by way of grant of financial assistance to people on the sale of dairy farm enterprises, or rights or interests in dairy farm enterprises; and

                     (b)  provide for the implementation and regulation of the scheme.

The scheme is to be known as the DEP scheme and a payment is to be known as a dairy exit payment .

             (2)  Without limiting subsection (1), the scheme may deal with:

                     (a)  the circumstances in which people are qualified to apply for dairy exit payments; and

                     (b)  the procedure for applying for a payment; and

                     (c)  the circumstances in which a payment is payable; and

                     (d)  the amount of payment payable; and

                     (e)  the method for paying a payment.

             (3)  A dairy exit payment is not payable to a person:

                     (a)  in respect of an application lodged after 30 June 2002; or

                     (b)  in respect of any sale that is completed after 30 June 2003.

             (4)  An instrument under subsection (1) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .

             (5)  The DEP scheme may provide for the disclosure of DEP information:

                     (a)  to the Dairy Adjustment Authority in connection with the administration of:

                              (i)  the DSAP scheme (within the meaning of Schedule 2 to the Dairy Produce Act 1986 ); or

                            (ia)  the SDA scheme (within the meaning of Schedule 2 to the Dairy Produce Act 1986 ); or

                             (ii)  a provision of the Dairy Produce Act 1986 in so far as that provision relates to that scheme; or

                     (b)  to the industry services body in connection with the administration of the Dairy Structural Adjustment Fund.

             (6)  Subsection (5) does not, by implication, limit subsection (1).

             (7)  In this section:

"dairy farm enterprise" has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 to the Dairy Produce Act 1986 .

"DEP information" means information disclosed or obtained for the purposes of:

                     (a)  the DEP scheme; or

                     (b)  a provision of this Act, in so far as that provision relates to the DEP scheme.

"DSAP payment start day" has the same meaning as in Schedule 2 to the Dairy Produce Act 1986 .