Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN APPLE AND PEAR CORPORATION ACT 1973 No. 194 of 1973 - SECT 3

3. (1) The following Acts are repealed:- Apple and Pear Organization Act 1938;
Apple and Pear Organization Act 1947; Apple and Pear Organization Act 1948;
Apple and Pear Organization Act 1953; Apple and Pear Organization Act 1960;
Apple and Pear Organization Act 1964; Apple and Pear Organization Act 1971.

(2) Upon the date of commencement of this Act-

   (a)  all rights, property and assets that, immediately before that date,
        were vested in the Board are, by force of this sub-section, vested in
        the Corporation; and

   (b)  the Corporation becomes, by force of this sub-section, liable to pay
        and discharge all the debts, liabilities and obligations of the Board
        that existed immediately before that date.

(3) Any agreement or instrument subsisting immediately before the date of
commencement of this Act to which the Board was a party has effect on and
after that date as if-

   (a)  the Corporation were substituted for the Board as a party to the
        agreement or instrument; and

   (b)  any reference in the agreement or instrument to the Board were (except
        in relation to matters that occurred before that date) a reference to
        the Corporation.

(4) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Organization Act, the Board, as
constituted immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall, for the
purposes of preparing and furnishing to the Minister the report referred to in
sub-section (5), continue in existence until it has furnished that report.

(5) The Board shall, as soon as practicable after the commencement of this
Act, prepare and furnish to the Minister a report on the operation of the
Organization Act during the period that commenced on 1 July 1973 and ended
immediately before the commencement of this Act.

(6) The Minister shall cause a copy of the report referred to in sub-section
(5) to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of
that House after its receipt by the Minister.

(7) The Corporation shall provide the Board with such clerical and other
assistance as is reasonably required for the preparation of the report
referred to in sub-section (5).