Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HORTICULTURAL POLICY COUNCIL ACT 1987 No. 167 of 1987 - SECT 3

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

"appoint" includes re-appoint;

"Australian horticultural industry" means any industry carried on in Australia
in connection with:

   (a)  producing horticultural products by:

        (i)    growing or harvesting; or

        (ii)   processing Australian horticultural products; or

   (b)  handling, storing, transporting, processing or marketing Australian
        horticultural products;

"Australian horticultural products" means:

   (a)  horticultural products grown or harvested in Australia;

   (b)  horticultural products produced by the processing in Australia of
        products referred to in paragraph (a); or

   (c)  products in a class of products prescribed for the purposes of this
        definition;

"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Council;

"Council" means the Horticultural Policy Council;

"Council report" means a report given to the Minister in the performance of a
function referred to in paragraph 6 (a) or (b);

"cut flowers and foliage" includes processed cut flowers and foliage;

"Deputy Chairperson" means the Deputy Chairperson of the Council;

"ex officio member" means the Chairperson of the Australian Horticultural
Corporation or the Chairperson of the Horticultural Research and Development
Corporation;

"fruits" includes processed fruits;

"horticultural products" means:

   (a)  fruits;

   (b)  vegetables;

   (c)  nuts;

   (d)  nursery products;

   (e)  cut flowers and foliage; and

   (f)  products in a class of products prescribed for the purposes of this
        paragraph;
but does not include products in a class of products that are declared by the
regulations not to be horticultural products for the purposes of this
definition;

"member" means a member of the Council, and includes the Chairperson and
Deputy Chairperson;

"nominated member" means a member other than the Chairperson or an ex
officio member;

"nominating bodies", in relation to a person who is a nominated member, means
the bodies on whose nomination the person was appointed as a nominated member;

"nursery products" includes trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, corms,
tubers, propagating material and plant tissue cultures, grown for ornamental
purposes or for producing fruits, vegetables, nuts, or cut flowers or foliage;

"nuts" includes processed nuts;

"order" means an order made under the regulations;

"Parliament", in relation to the Northern Territory, means the Legislative
Assembly of the Northern Territory;

"prescribed" includes prescribed by an order;

"process", in relation to a product, means the performance of any operation in
relation to the product, and includes the chilling, freezing, drying,
bottling, packing, canning or preserving of the product, but does not include
the performance of an operation included in a class of operations prescribed
for the purposes of this definition, either generally or in relation to the
product or a class of products in which the product is included;

"product" includes a thing occurring naturally;

"regulations" includes orders;

"State" includes the Northern Territory;

"vegetables" includes:

   (a)  mushrooms and other edible fungi; and

   (b)  processed vegetables (including mushrooms and other edible fungi).