AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK (DISEASE CONTROL FUNDING) ACT 1998

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AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK (DISEASE CONTROL FUNDING) ACT 1998 - SECT 3

Definitions

3 Definitions

In this Act:
"approved policy and priority guidelines" for an industry fund means guidelines approved for the fund under section 12.
"carrying capacity" means notional carrying capacity within the meaning of Part 7 of the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 .
"collection agent" for a transaction based contribution scheme means:

(a) any auctioneer, stock and station agent or stock and station salesperson within the meaning of the Property, Stock and Business Agents Act 2002 , or

(b) any other person,

involved in livestock transactions to which the scheme relates who is authorised under the scheme to collect contributions for the scheme.
"control" a disease includes prevent, eradicate or manage the disease.
"Department" means the Department of Industry and Investment.
"designated disease", "designated disease control program", "designated livestock producers" -see section 6.
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Department.
"disease" means any disease within the meaning of the Stock Diseases Act 1923 or any emergency animal disease within the meaning of the Animal Diseases (Emergency Outbreaks) Act 1991 .
"disease control program" -see section 5.
"exercise" a function includes perform a duty.
"financial year" means the year commencing 1 July.
"function" includes a power, authority or duty.
"fund administrator" for an industry fund means a person or persons appointed to administer the fund under section 8A.
"industry advisory committee" means a committee established under section 8.
"industry fund" means a fund established under Division 1 of Part 3.
"industry levy" means a levy imposed under Division 3 of Part 3.
"levy period" -see section 15.
"livestock" means any stock within the meaning of the Stock Diseases Act 1923 .
"livestock producer" means a person:

(a) who raises livestock on the person’s own behalf, or

(b) on whose behalf livestock is raised, or

(c) who is a party to a share-farming or partnership agreement under which livestock is raised.

"livestock transaction" means the purchase or sale of livestock or any product made or derived from livestock.
"non-transaction based contribution" means a monetary contribution made (or to be made) to an industry fund otherwise than under a transaction based contribution scheme for the fund.
"occupier" has the same meaning it has in the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 .
"ratable land" means rateable land within the meaning of section 60 of the Rural Lands Protection Act 1998 .
"relevant transaction based scheme", in relation to a transaction based contribution, means the transaction based contribution scheme under which the contribution is collected.
"Rural Assistance Authority" means the New South Wales Rural Assistance Authority constituted under the Rural Assistance Act 1989 .
"transaction based contribution" means a monetary contribution made (or to be made) to an industry fund under a transaction based contribution scheme for the fund.
"transaction based contribution scheme" means a scheme established under section 12B.
"transaction based contributor" means a designated livestock producer who has made a transaction based contribution to an industry fund.

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