Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HORTICULTURAL POLICY COUNCIL ACT 1987 No. 167 of 1987 - SECT 9

9. (1) The Council consists of the following members:

   (a)  the Chairperson;

   (b)  5 members to represent growers and producers of Australian
        horticultural products, appointed on the nomination, subject to and in
        accordance with the regulations, of bodies prescribed for the purposes
        of this paragraph;

   (c)  2 members to represent processors of
        Australian horticultural products, appointed on the nomination,
        subject to and in accordance with the regulations, of bodies
        prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph;

   (d)  1 member to represent persons engaged in the marketing of Australian
        horticultural products, appointed on the nomination, subject to and in
        accordance with the regulations, of bodies prescribed for the purposes
        of this paragraph;

   (e)  2 members nominated by the Australian Agricultural Council;

   (f)  2 members nominated by the Australian Council of Trade Unions;

   (g)  the Chairperson of the Australian Horticultural Corporation;

   (h)  the Chairperson of the Horticultural Research and Development
        Corporation.

(2) The regulations may amend subsection (1) (whether by inserting or omitting
a paragraph or otherwise) and may make any necessary consequential amendment
of paragraph 22 (5) (a).

(3) The performance of the functions, and the exercise of the powers, of the
Council are not affected by reason only of vacancies in the membership of the
Council.