Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered Acts1 Subsection 4(1) (definition of Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation)
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2 Subsection 4(1)
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marketing body has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997 .
3 Subsection 4(1) (definition of Meat Industry Council )
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4 Subsection 4(1) (definition of Meat Research Corporation)
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5 Subsection 4(1)
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research body has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997.
6 After section 5
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SECT 5A No amount of levy payable in certain cases (1) The regulations may provide that no amount of levy is payable by owners of cattle under this Act.
(2) Despite anything else in this Act, if a regulation of the kind referred to in subsection (1) is made, an amount of levy is not payable on the slaughter of cattle in respect of any period while the regulation is in force.
7 Paragraphs 6(1)(a), (b) and (c)
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(b) the prescribed amount (not exceeding 1 cent), for the purpose of payment to the research body.
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(2) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare a body to be the body whose recommendations about the amount to be prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 6(1)(a) or 6(1)(b) are to be taken into consideration under subsection (3).
(3) If a declaration is in force under subsection (2), the Governor-General's power to make regulations for the purposes of the paragraph to which the declaration relates is exercisable only on the advice of the Executive Council, given after the Council has taken into consideration any recommendations about the amount made to the Minister by the body specified in the declaration in relation to that paragraph.
House of Representatives on 1 October 1997
(157/97)