AUSTRALIAN APPLE AND PEAR CORPORATION AMENDMENT ACT 1978 NO. 15, 1978 

AUSTRALIAN APPLE AND PEAR CORPORATION AMENDMENT ACT 1978 NO. 15, 1978 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.  Short title.  
2.  Commencement  
3.   
4.  Borrowing by Corporation  
5.  Formal amendments  
SCHEDULE 

AUSTRALIAN APPLE AND PEAR CORPORATION AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 15 of 1978
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Short title.

        AUSTRALIAN  APPLE  AND  PEAR  CORPORATION  AMENDMENT  ACT  1978

                                 No. 15 of 1978

      An Act to amend the Australian Apple and Pear Corporation Act 1973.

  BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short title, &c.
  1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Australian Apple and Pear Corporation
Amendment Act 1978.*1*
  (2) The Australian Apple and Pear Corporation Act 1973*2* is in this Act
referred to as the Principal Act.

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Commencement

  2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the
Royal Assent.*1*

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  3. (1) Section 18 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section
substituted:
Remuneration and allowances
  ''18. (1) In this section, 'prescribed person' means-

  (a)  a member, or a deputy of a member, of the Corporation; or

  (b)  a member of a Committee appointed under section 10.

  ''(2) A prescribed person shall be paid such remuneration as is determined
by the Remuneration Tribunal.

  ''(3) A prescribed person shall be paid such allowances as are prescribed.

  ''(4) This section has effect subject to the Remuneration Tribunals Act
1973.''.
  (2) Regulations in force at the commencement of this section for the
purposes of sub-section 18 (3) of the Principal Act continue in force as if
made for the purposes of sub-section 18 (3) of the Principal Act as amended by
this Act.

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Borrowing by Corporation

  4. Section 30 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (a) of
sub-section (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

  ''(a)  borrow moneys for the purpose of-

      (i)  exercising its power to engage in trade;

     (ii)  performing its function of promoting the export from Australia of
apples and pears;

     (iii)  performing its function of promoting trade and commerce in apples
and pears among the States, between States and Territories and within the
Territories; or

     (iv)  performing its function of encouraging the consumption of apples
and pears in the Territories; and''.

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Formal amendments

  5. (1) The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.
  (2) A person holding office immediately before the commencement of this Act
as the member of the Australian Apple and Pear Corporation referred to in
paragraph 13 (1) (c) of the Principal Act shall be deemed, for the purposes of
the Principal Act as amended by this Act, to have been appointed to that
office under paragraph 13 (1) (c) of the Principal Act as amended by this
Act.

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SCHEDULE

                                    SCHEDULE
                                                                       Section
5 

                               FORMAL  AMENDMENTS

  1. The following provisions are amended by omitting ''Australian
Government'' (wherever occurring) and substituting ''Commonwealth'':

  Sub-sections 13 (1) and 17 (1) and (2).

  2. The following provisions are amended by omitting ''Australia'' (wherever
occurring ) and substituting ''the Commonwealth'':

  Sub-sections 30 (3), 32 (2) and 36 (1).

  3. Section 37 is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) ''Treasurer'' and
substituting ''Minister for Finance''.
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NOTES

                                     NOTES
1.  Act No. 15, 1978; assented to 20 April 1978.
2.  Act No. 194, 1973, as amended. For previous amendments see Acts Nos. 37
and 199, 1976.