New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY SERVICES ACT 1998 - SECT 6

6 Content of foundation regulation

(1) A committee’s foundation regulation must specify the following:

(a) the class of primary producers for which the committee is constituted,

(b) the area of operations for which the committee is constituted,

(c) the commodities for which the committee is constituted,

(d) the agricultural industry services for which the committee is constituted.

(2) A committee’s foundation regulation must also make provision for the following matters:

(a) the corporate name of the committee,

(b) the number of members that are to constitute the committee, indicating:

(i) how many are to be elected members, and

(ii) how many (if any) are to be appointed members,

(c) if the committee’s area of operations is to be divided into electoral districts, the boundaries of those districts,

(d) if there are to be appointed members:

(i) the persons or bodies by whom the appointed members are to be appointed, and

(ii) the procedures for appointment of those members,

(e) in the case of a regulation referred to in section 4 (1), the terms (not exceeding 4 years for any member) for which the first members of the committee are to hold office,

(f) in the case of a regulation referred to in section 5 (1), such provisions of a savings or transitional nature as are necessary or convenient to be made as a consequence of the reconstitution of the committee under this Act,

(g) the voting entitlements of the committee’s constituents, both for polls and (if appropriate) for elections,

(h) the quorum for a committee meeting and for a meeting of the committee’s constituents,

(i) the committee’s financial year.

(3) More than half of the members of the committee are to be members elected or appointed from among the committee’s constituents.

(4) A constituent’s voting entitlement for elections need not be the same as the constituent’s voting entitlement for polls.

Note: The Subordinate Legislation Act 1989 , including, in particular, item 3 of Schedule 2 to that Act, makes provision for the preparation of a regulatory impact statement for a committee’s foundation regulation.