Commonwealth Numbered Acts

WHEAT MARKETING ACT 1989No. 58, 1989 - SECT 3

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

"Board" means the Australian Wheat Board;

"Board auditor" means:

   (a)  if an appointment of a company auditor under subsection 68 (6) is in
        effect-that company auditor; or

   (b)  in any other case-the Auditor-General;

"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Board;

"Committee" or "Selection Committee" means an Australian Wheat Board
Selection Committee established under section 29;

"currency contract" means a forward exchange contract or a contract with
respect to currency futures;

"equal employment opportunity program", in relation to the Board, means a
program of the Board that is designed to ensure:

   (a)  that appropriate action is taken to eliminate any discrimination by
        the Board against women and persons in designated groups in relation
        to employment matters; and

   (b)  that appropriate measures are taken by the Board to promote equal
        opportunity for women and persons in designated groups in relation to
        employment matters;
being a program that includes provision for assessment action, consultation
action, employee information action, and policy action, in relation to the
program;

"Fund" means the Wheat Industry Fund;

"futures contract" means a contract with respect to financial futures or grain
futures (including a contract relating to grain harvested outside Australia);

"grain" means wheat, barley, triticale, maize, grain sorghum, soybeans,
safflower seed, sunflower seed, linseed, oats, rye, rapeseed, rice, field
peas, lupins, millet, canaryseed, grain legumes, pulses, and any product of
the soil declared by the Minister, by regulation, to be grain for the purposes
of this Act;

"Grains Council" means the body known as the Grains Council of Australia but
known, prior to 9 October 1986, as the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation;

"member" means a member of the Board, including the Chairperson;

"nominated member" includes a person appointed under subsection 17 (3) to
replace a nominated member;

"pool" means a pool established under section 61;

"pool return wheat" means wheat bought by the Board for sale as part of a pool
and on terms requiring payment for the wheat to be made according to Division
3 of Part 4;

"Presiding Member" means the Presiding Member of the Committee, and includes a
person appointed to act as the Presiding Member of the Committee;

"quality standards" means standards in force under section 59;

"season" means the period of 12 months commencing on 1 July 1989 or any
subsequent 1 July;

"security" includes a bond, debenture, bill of exchange, promissory note or
unsecured note or any similar instrument or document;

"Territory" means an internal Territory;

"1984 Act" means the Wheat Marketing Act 1984.

(2) A reference in this Act to wheat of a season is a reference to wheat
harvested in that season.
(3) For the purposes only of sections 47 and 48 and the definition of "equal
employment opportunity program", the following expressions have the meanings
set out in the Schedule:

   (a)  assessment action;

   (b)  consultation action;

   (c)  designated group;

   (d)  discrimination;

   (e)  employee;

   (f)  employee information action;

   (g)  employment matters;

   (h)  policy action;

   (j)  woman.

(4) Without affecting the meaning of subsection (3), the definition of

"employee" set out in the Schedule does not have effect for the purpose of any
provision of this Act other than subsection (3) and sections 47 and 48.