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DAIRY INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) BILL 1992
NEW SOUTH WALES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Explanatory Note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament)
The object of this Bill is to amend the Dairy Industry Act 1979 in order to:
make it clear that the vesting of milk in the Dairy Corporation by the Act is
limited to milk produced in New South Wales; and
require all milk that is sold or supplied for human consumption or use within or
outside the State to be purchased from a Milk Authority (i.e. the Dairy
Corporation or a similar statutory authority of a State or Territory); and
make it clear that the Dairy Corporation may fix the price payable to dairy
farmers for milk that is produced within the State but is for human
consumption or use outside the State.
Clause 1 specifies the short title of the proposed Act.
Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act.
Clause 3 amends the Dairy Industry Act 1979 as set out in Schedule 1.
Schedule 1 (1) inserts a definition of "Milk Authority". The New South Wales Dairy
Corporation would be a Milk Authority as would a similar body in another State or a
Territory if it is declared by the Minister to be a Milk Authority.
Schedule 1 (2) makes it clear that the statutory vesting of milk in the Dairy
Corporation relates to milk produced in New South Wales.
Schedule 1 (3) makes a consequential amendment.
Schedule 1 (4) makes it an offence for a person to sell or supply milk for human
consumption or use within or outside New South Wales unless, if there is a Milk
Authority in the State or Territory from which the milk was obtained, it was obtained
from that Milk Authority.
Schedule 1 (5) makes it clear that the provision of the Dairy Industry Act 1979
relating to the price to be paid to a dairy farmer for milk for human consumption or use
applies in relation to human consumption or use outside the State and not just to human
consumption or use within the State.