New South Wales Consolidated Acts

AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK (DISEASE CONTROL FUNDING) ACT 1998 - SECT 12

12 Payments out of industry fund

(1) There is payable from an industry fund:

(a) the costs of the relevant designated disease control program paid in accordance with any approved policy and priority guidelines for the fund, and

(b) the costs of administration of the fund including (but not limited to) the following:

(i) the allowances payable to members of the relevant industry advisory committee and any other expenses of the committee,

(ii) the costs of collection of transaction based contributions and industry levies payable to the fund,

(iii) the payment of fees to collection agents for a transaction based contribution scheme for the fund for the collection of transaction based contributions (but only where such payment is authorised under the scheme), and

(c) the refund to persons of the whole or part of their transaction based contributions under section 12E that have been paid into the fund, and

(d) money required by law to be paid from the fund.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) (a), "approved policy and priority guidelines" for a fund are any guidelines about the policies and priorities for expenditure from the fund that have been approved by the Minister from time to time.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2), any approved policy and priority guidelines for a fund may deal with any or all of the following matters:

(a) the manner in which the service or services that comprise the designated disease control program will be funded,

(b) the funding priorities of the fund and who should receive funding,

(c) the services under the designated disease control program to which transaction based contributors are to be entitled.

(4) Before approving any policy and priority guidelines for a fund, the Minister is to have regard to any advice of the industry advisory committee for the designated disease control program concerned and the fund administrator about the policies and priorities for expenditure from the fund.