Commonwealth Numbered Acts

DRIED VINE FRUITS STABILIZATION LEGISLATION REPEAL ACT 1981 No. 13 of 1981 - SECT 9

9. (1) For the purposes of making a payment to a grower of sultanas as
mentioned in section 8, the Company may arrange for the packer of the sultanas
to pay to that grower, as agent of the Company, the amount payable to that
grower under sub-section 6 (2), and payment may be made by the Company to the
packer in accordance with the arrangement.

(2) The Audit Act 1901 does not apply in relation to moneys of the kind
referred to in sub-section (1) in the hands of a packer of sultanas.

(3) Moneys paid to a packer of sultanas under this section shall, until they
are distributed in accordance with the arrangement under which they are paid,
be deemed to be moneys held in trust for the Commonwealth.

(4) Where -

   (a)  an arrangement has been made between the Company and a packer of
        sultanas in accordance with sub-section (1);

   (b)  moneys are paid by the Company to the packer in accordance with the
        arrangement for payment by the packer to a grower of sultanas; and

   (c)  the grower is indebted to the packer and has authorized the packer to
        retain moneys payable by the packer to the grower in accordance with
        an arrangement under sub-section (1) in or towards the discharge of
        that indebtedness, the packer may apply the whole or a part of the
        moneys so paid by the Company to the packer in or towards the
        discharge of that indebtedness and, when the packer so applies an
        amount, the amount so applied shall be deemed to have been an amount
        paid to the grower in accordance with this Act.