New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BANANA INDUSTRY ACT 1987 - SECT 11A

11A Power to require information for the purposes of ascertaining voting entitlements

(1) For the purposes of ascertaining the voting entitlement of banana growers under Part 4, the Committee:

(a) may, by advertisement, require all banana growers, or a specified class or classes of banana growers, to furnish it in writing (within a time specified in the advertisement) with such information in relation to the area of any plantation on which bananas are grown by or on behalf of the growers to whom the advertisement is directed as is specified in the advertisement, or

(b) may, by notice sent by post, require a person who, in the Committee’s opinion, is a banana grower to furnish it in writing (within a time specified in the notice) with such information in relation to the area of any plantation on which bananas are or may be grown by or on behalf the person as is specified in the notice.

(2) A person:

(a) must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply with a requirement under this section, or

(b) must not furnish to the Committee under this section any information that, to the person’s knowledge, is false or misleading in a material particular.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.