Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN WOOL CORPORATION ACT 1991 No. 108 of 1991 - SECT 6

6. (1) The functions of the Corporation are:

   (a)  to promote, or arrange for the promotion of, the use of wool and wool
        products both within and outside Australia and, in particular, without
        limiting the generality of the foregoing:

        (i)    to participate, as the Corporation thinks fit, in the
               organisation and management of any domestic or international
               body formed for the promotion of wool and wool products; and

        (ii)   to ensure through its representatives on any such body that, as
               far as possible, the programs and activities of that body are
               carried out in the way that best promotes the interests of
               Australian woolgrowers; and

   (b)  to develop, assess, and encourage the Australian wool industry to
        adopt, plans to improve the marketing of Australian wool and
        wool products (including plans for the sale and purchase of wool by
        description) and, in particular, without limiting the generality of
        the foregoing:

        (i)    to participate in negotiations with respect to charges
               (including freight rates) associated with the marketing of
               wool; and

        (ii)   to facilitate arrangements with respect to programs for the
               sale of wool at auction, and by tender, and the quantities and
               kinds of wool to be offered at such wool sales; and

   (c)  to develop and implement programs to safeguard and improve the quality
        of Australian wool and, in particular, without limiting the generality
        of the foregoing:

        (i)    to set, in consultation with representatives of the wool
               industry, appropriate standards for ensuring the quality of
               wool (including standards relating to pesticide residues in
               wool) and appropriate standards for ensuring the quality of
               woolpacks; and

        (ii)   to adopt measures to ensure that Australian wool offered for
               sale for export meets those standards; and

        (iii)  in accordance with Part 3, to keep a register of woolclassers,
               to determine the qualifications to be held by persons in order
               to be registered woolclassers and to provide for means by which
               wool classed by any registered woolclasser may be identified;
               and

   (d)  to encourage and facilitate the training of shearers and shedhands
        with the object of ensuring:

        (i)    the availability of trained persons for the wool industry; and

        (ii)   a standard of shearing and preparation suited to the needs of
               that industry; and

   (e)  to convene general meetings of wool-tax payers in accordance with Part
        6; and

   (f)  to provide, as required, management, personnel, legal and other
        services to:

        (i)    the Australian Wool Realisation Commission; and

        (ii)   the Wool Research and Development Corporation; and

   (g)  the functions relating to finance specified in section 20; and

   (h)  any function conferred on the Corporation by:

        (i)    any other provision of this Act; or

        (ii)   any other Act.

(2) The Corporation must not perform its functions:

   (a)  for a purpose in respect of which the Parliament does not have power
        to make laws; or

   (b)  so as to give preference to one State or any part thereof over another
        State or any part thereof or otherwise inconsistently with the
        Constitution.

(3) In spite of paragraph (2) (a), it is the intention of the Parliament that,
where a law of a State confers on the Corporation a function of a kind
conferred on the Corporation by this Act, the Corporation may perform the
function conferred by that law.

(4) The Corporation may perform any of its functions outside Australia.