Commonwealth Numbered Acts

RURAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH ACT 1985 No. 102, 1985 - SECT 5

5. (1) The regulations may, for the purposes of this Act, declare a levy
specified in the regulations, being a levy imposed in respect of goods of a
particular kind, to be, with effect from a day specified in the regulations,
being a day not earlier than 1 January 1986, a prescribed levy.

(2) The regulations may, for the purposes of this Act, declare levies
specified in the regulations, being levies imposed in respect of goods of
particular kinds, to be, with effect from a day specified in the regulations,
being a day not earlier than 1 January 1986, a prescribed class of levies.

(3) Where regulations made for the purposes of sub-section (1) or (2) declare
a levy or levies to be, with effect from a day specified in the regulations, a
prescribed levy, or a prescribed class of levies, the Minister-

   (a)  shall, by notice published in the Gazette, declare a particular
        organization or organizations concerned with the production,
        processing, storage, transport or marketing of goods of the kind in
        respect of which that levy is imposed, or goods of the kinds in
        respect of which levies included in that class of levies are imposed,
        to be, with effect from that day, a relevant industry organisation, or
        relevant industry organizations, in relation to goods of that kind or
        those kinds; and

   (b)  may, by notice published in the Gazette, vary any declaration made
        pursuant to paragraph (a) or, by virtue of a previous application of
        this sub-section, pursuant to this paragraph, with effect from a day
        specified in the notice, by declaring another such organization to be,
        with effect from that last-mentioned day, a
        relevant industry organization in relation to goods of that kind or
        those kinds in lieu of an organization that had previously been
        declared under this sub-section to be such a relevant industry
        organization or in addition to the organization or organizations that
        had previously been declared under this sub-section to be such a
        relevant industry organization or such
        relevant industry organizations.