Commonwealth Numbered Acts

WHEAT MARKETING ACT 1979 No. 166 of 1979 - SECT 29

PART VI-MEMBERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION OF AUSTRALIAN WHEAT BOARD
29. (1) The Board shall consist of-

   (a)  the Chairman;

   (b)  a finance member;

   (c)  a representative of flour mill owners;

   (d)  a representative of employees;

   (e)  2 wheat growers representing wheat growers in New South Wales;

   (f)  2 wheat growers representing wheat growers in Victoria;

   (g)  2 wheat growers representing wheat growers in Queensland;

   (h)  2 wheat growers representing wheat growers in South Australia; and

   (i)  2 wheat growers representing wheat growers in Western Australia.

(2) The Chairman and the members specified in paragraphs (1) (b), (c) and (d)
shall be appointed by the Minister.

(3) Members representing wheat growers in a State shall be appointed in the
following manner:

   (a)  if there is a State Board in relation to the State-they shall be
        appointed by the Minister from amongst the members of the State Board,
        on the nomination of the State Board; or

   (b)  if there is no State Board in relation to the State-they shall be
        appointed by the Minister after being elected by wheat growers in the
        State in accordance with the regulations.

(4) The Chairman shall be appointed as a full-time member and the other
members as part-time members.

(5) A person who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, was a
member of the Board of the description contained in any of the paragraphs of
sub-section 8 (1) of the Wheat Industry Stabilization Act 1974 shall, on and
after the commencement of this Act, be deemed to be a member of the Board of
the corresponding description contained in sub-section (1) of this section.

(6) Without prejudice to the operation of a provision of this Act under which
a member of the Board ceases to hold office on an earlier day-

   (a)  all members of the Board holding office on the first day after the
        commencement of this Act that is a day at the end of which the terms
        of office of all members of the Board would have expired if this Act
        had not been enacted cease to hold office at the end of that day; and

   (b)  all members of the Board cease to hold office on the expiration of
        each successive period of 3 years after that day.

(7) A member of the Board appointed in accordance with paragraph (3) (a)
ceases to hold office if he ceases to be a member of the State Board
concerned.

(8) Where, after the appointment of a member of the Board in accordance with
paragraph (3) (b) to represent wheat growers in a State, a State Board is
constituted in that State, that member ceases to hold office on the day as
from which members of the Board are appointed from amongst the members of the
State Board.

(9) The appointment of a member of the Board under sub-section (3) is not
invalidated by reason of a defect or irregularity in, or in connection with,
his nomination or election.

(10) Whenever a casual vacancy occurs in the office of a member of the Board,
being a member representing wheat growers in a State, the Minister may, after
consultation with the appropriate Minister of the State, appoint a wheat
grower in the State to that office.

(11) A member is eligible for re-appointment.
(12) In this section, ''State Board'' means-

   (a)  in relation to a State other than Western Australia-a Board or
        Committee established by a law of the State (whether before or after
        the commencement of this Act) to perform functions in relation to
        wheat and having power (whether conferred specifically or otherwise)
        to act as agent of the Australian Wheat Board; or

   (b)  in relation to Western Australia-the Western Australian Wheat Board
        continued in existence by the Wheat Marketing Act, 1979 of Western
        Australia.