Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN WOOL RESEARCH AND PROMOTION ORGANISATION ACT 1993 No. 63 of 1993 - SECT 4

4. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Administration Act" means the Wool Tax (Administration) Act 1964;

"appointed member" means the Chairperson or a member referred to in paragraph
28(1)(d);

"assessment action", in relation to the equal employment opportunity program
of the Organisation, means action by the Organisation to do all of the
following things:

   (a)  to collect and record statistics and related information concerning
        employment by the Organisation, including the number and types of jobs
        undertaken by, or job classifications of:

        (i)    employees of either sex; and

        (ii)   persons in designated groups;

   (b)  to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the program;

   (c)  to assess:

        (i)    the achievement of the objectives of the program; and

        (ii)   the effectiveness of the program; by comparing statistics and
               information referred to in paragraph (a) with the indicators
               set under the policy action of the program;

"carpet wool" has the same meaning as in the Administration Act;

"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Organisation;

"consultation action", in relation to the equal employment opportunity program
of the Organisation, means action by the Organisation to:

   (a)  consult with its employees, particularly employees who are women or in
        designated groups; and

   (b)  consult with each trade union having members affected by the program;
        in relation to the development and implementation of the program;

"current corporate plan", in relation to anything done or to be done, means
the corporate plan in force when the thing is done or is to be done;

"current operational plan", in relation to anything done or to be done, means
the operational plan in force when the thing is done or is to be done;

"designated group" has the same meaning as in the Public Service Act 1922;

"discrimination" means:

   (a)  discrimination that is unlawful under the Racial Discrimination Act
        1975 or the Sex Discrimination Act 1984; or

   (b)  discrimination by which a person with a physical or mental disability
        is, because of the disability, treated less favourably than a person
        without a disability; but does not include discrimination that:

   (c)  is essential for the effective performance of the duties of a position
        or appointment; and

   (d)  is not unlawful under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 or the Sex 
        Discrimination Act 1984 ;

"employee information action", in relation to the equal employment
opportunity program of the Organisation, means action by the Organisation to
inform its employees of the content of the program and of the results of any
assessment action;

"employment matters" includes:

   (a)  recruitment procedure, and selection criteria, for appointment or
        engagement of persons as employees; and

   (b)  promotion and transfer of employees; and

   (c)  training and staff development for employees; and

   (d)  conditions of service of employees;

"equal employment opportunity program", in relation to the Organisation, means
a program of the Organisation that is designed to ensure:

   (a)  that appropriate action is taken to eliminate any discrimination by
        the Organisation against women and persons in designated groups in
        relation to employment matters; and

   (b)  that appropriate measures are taken by the Organisation to promote
        equal opportunity for women and persons in designated groups in
        relation to employment matters; being a program that includes
        provision for assessment action, consultation action,
        employee information action, and policy action, in relation to the
        program;

"Fund" means the Wool Research and Development Fund;

"generic promotion", in relation to wool and wool products, includes:

   (a)  consumer advertising; and

   (b)  the provision of technical advisory services to wool processors,
        manufacturers and retailers for the purpose of encouraging the use of,
        and innovation in the processing of, wool and wool blend products to
        meet consumer needs; and

   (c)  the provision of services involving the use, by manufacturers of wool
        products, of particular trade marks; and

   (d)  promoting growth in demand for wool and wool products in international
        markets;

"Managing Director" means the Managing Director of the Organisation;

"member" means a member of the Organisation;

"member of a Parliament" means a member of:

   (a)  the Parliament of the Commonwealth; or

   (b)  the Parliament of a State; or

   (c)  the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory; or

   (d)  the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory;

"Organisation" means the Australian Wool Research and Promotion Organisation;

"plan period", in relation to a corporate plan, means the period to which the
plan relates under section 8 or 9;

"policy action", in relation to the equal employment opportunity program of
the Organisation, means action by the Organisation to do all of the following
things:

   (a)  confer responsibility for the development and implementation of the
        program (including a continuous review of the program) on a person
        having sufficient authority and status within the management of the
        Organisation to enable the person properly to develop and implement
        the program;

   (b)  examine the policies and practices of the Organisation in relation to
        employment matters to identify:

        (i)    any policies or practices that constitute discrimination
               against women or persons in designated groups; and

        (ii)   any patterns (whether ascertained statistically or otherwise)
               of lack of equality of opportunity for women or persons in
               designated groups;

   (c)  set:

        (i)    the objectives to be achieved by the program; and

        (ii)   the quantitative and other indicators against which the
               effectiveness of the program is to be assessed;

"research and development", in relation to the wool industry, means systematic
experimentation and analysis in any field of science, technology or economics
(including the study of the social or environmental consequences of the
adoption of new technology) carried out with the object of:

   (a)  acquiring knowledge that may be of use in achieving or furthering an
        objective of the wool industry, including knowledge that may be used
        for the purpose of improving any aspect of the production, processing,
        storage, transport or marketing of wool or wool products; or

   (b)  applying such knowledge for the purpose of achieving or furthering
        such an objective;

"sale value", in relation to shorn wool, means the amount that is the sale
value of the wool for the purposes of section 10 of the Administration Act;

"shorn wool" means wool that:

   (a)  has been obtained by shearing; and

   (b)  has not been subject to any process other than scouring or
        carbonising;

"triennium" means:

   (a)  the period of 3 financial years commencing on 1 July 1994; or

   (b)  any successive period of 3 financial years;

"wool products" includes goods made wholly or partly from wool or from
materials produced by processing wool;

"wool tax" means tax payable under a Wool Tax Act;

"wool-tax payer", in relation to:

   (a)  a meeting held, or to be held, under section 21 in a particular
        financial year; or

   (b)  a ballot conducted, or to be conducted, in a particular financial
        year, for the purposes of section 51; means a person who:

   (c)  during the preceding financial year, incurred a liability to pay wool
        tax; and

   (b)  has paid that tax;

"Wool Tax Act" means the Wool Tax Act (No. 1) 1964, the Wool Tax Act (No. 2)
1964, the Wool Tax Act (No. 3) 1964, the Wool Tax Act (No. 4) 1964 or the Wool
Tax Act (No. 5) 1964.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, a person is to be taken to be the person who
has paid the wool tax imposed on particular shorn wool if:

   (a)  the person has paid to a wool-broker, or money due from a wool-broker
        to the person has been reduced by, an amount in respect of the
        wool tax payable by the wool-broker on the sale of the wool on behalf
        of the person; or

   (b)  in relation to the purchase of the wool from the person by a
        wool-dealer, the person has paid to the wool-dealer, or the amount
        payable by the wool-dealer for the wool has been reduced by, an amount
        in respect of the wool tax payable by the wool-dealer in respect of
        the purchase of the wool; or

   (c)  in relation to the purchase of the wool from the person by a
        manufacturer, the person has paid to the manufacturer, or the amount
        payable by the manufacturer for the wool has been reduced by, an
        amount in respect of the wool tax payable by the manufacturer in
        respect of the purchase of the wool; or

   (d)  the person has paid to a manufacturer an amount in respect of the wool
        tax payable by the manufacturer when the manufacturer subjects the
        wool to a process of manufacture; or

   (e)  the amount of the wool tax payable in respect of the wool has been
        recovered from the person, under section 12 of the Administration Act,
        by a wool-broker, a wool-dealer or a manufacturer.

(3) The amount of the wool tax that the person is to be taken to have paid is
the amount referred to in whichever of the paragraphs of subsection (2) is
applicable.

(4) In subsections (2) and (3):
(a) "manufacturer", "wool-broker" and "wool-dealer" have the same respective
meanings as in the Administration Act; and

   (b)  a reference to a person includes a reference to a partnership or the
        trustee or trustees of a trust estate.