Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN WOOL REALISATION COMMISSION ACT 1991 No. 107 of 1991 - SECT 3

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

"accumulated debt" means the amount by which the Stockpile Fund was in debit
on the commencement of this Act.

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

"annual operational plan" means the plan for the time being in force under
section 37;

"annual report" means a report of the Commission prepared under section 69;

"appointed member" means a member other than the Managing Director or the
managing director of the Corporation;

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

   (a)  to collect and record statistics and related information concerning
        employment by the Commission, including the number of 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; and

   (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 Commission;

"Commission" means the body corporate continued in existence under subsection
4 (1) under the name Australian Wool Realisation Commission;

"consultation action", in relation to the equal employment opportunity program
of the Commission, means action by the Commission 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;

"corporate plan" means the plan for the time being in force under section 32;

"Corporation" means the Australian Wool Corporation established under the
Australian Wool Corporation Act 1991;

"debt repayment program" means the program devised by the Commission under
paragraph 6 (b) for the management and payment of the accumulated debt;

"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 the disability;

"employee" means a natural person appointed or engaged:

   (a)  under a contract of service, whether on a full-time, part-time,
        permanent, casual or temporary basis; or

   (b)  under a contract for services;

"employee information action", in relation to the equal employment opportunity
program of the Commission, means action by the Commission 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 Commission, means a
program of the Commission that is designed to ensure:

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

   (b)  that appropriate measures are taken by the Commission 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;

"Managing Director" means the person appointed as the Managing Director of the
Commission under section 56;

"member" means a member of the Commission;

"member of 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;

"policy action", in relation to the equal employment opportunity program of
the Commission, means action by the Commission 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
        Commission to enable the person properly to develop and implement the
        program;

   (b)  examine policies and practices of the Commission 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;
        and

   (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;

"Presiding Member" means the person appointed as Presiding Member of the
Australian Wool Industry Selection Committees under section 58 of the
Australian Wool Corporation Act 1991;

"repealed Act" means the Wool Marketing Act 1987 as in force immediately
before 1 July 1991;

"securities" includes stocks, debentures, debenture stocks, notes, bonds,
promissory notes, bills of exchange and similar instruments or documents;

"shorn wool" means wool that:

   (a)  has been obtained by shearing; and

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

"Stockpile Fund" means the Fund continued in existence under section 19;

"trade union" means:

   (a)  an organisation of employees registered under the Conciliation and
        Arbitration Act 1904; or

   (b)  a trade union within the meaning of a State Act or law of a Territory;

"Wool Council" means the organisation known as the Wool Council of Australia
that was formed on 19 July 1979;

"wool premises" means premises to be used by a number of persons as a centre
for all or any of the following purposes:

   (a)  trading in wool;

   (b)  handling and storing wool;

   (c)  packing and dumping wool;

   (d)  purposes related to a purpose referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or
        (c); and includes equipment for use in relation to the use of any such
        premises;

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

"Wool Research and Development Corporation" means the Wool Research and
Development Corporation established under the Primary Industries and Energy
Research and Development Act 1989;

"wool stockpile" means all wool purchased under Division 2 of Part IV of the
repealed Act and owned by the Commission immediately before 1 July 1991;

"wool stores properties" means:

   (a)  any land or buildings that:

   (i)  were owned by the Commission immediately before 1 July 1991; and

   (ii) were wool stores properties within the meaning of the repealed Act;
        and

   (b)  any wool premises owned by the Commission immediately before 1 July
        1991;

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

"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) A reference in this Act to discrimination in relation to employment
matters does not include a reference to discrimination that:

   (a)  is essential for the effective performance of the duties to which the
        employment matters relate; and

   (b)  is not unlawful under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 or the Sex
        Discrimination Act 1984 .

(3) For the purposes of this Act, the sale value of any shorn wool is the
amount that, under section 10 of the Administration Act, is the sale value of
that wool for the purposes of that Act.