Commonwealth Numbered Acts

DAIRY INDUSTRY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1983 No. 64 of 1983 - SECT 4

4. Section 19 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Conditions relating to contracts for shipment of dairy produce

"19. (1) The Corporation may, from time to time, by writing under its common
seal, approve conditions relating to contracts for the carriage of dairy
produce by sea to a place beyond Australia.



"(2) Where the Corporation approves conditions under sub-section (1) -

   (a)  the Corporation shall send by post to each licensee a notice informing
        him of the conditions so approved; and

   (b)  a contract for the carriage of dairy produce by sea to a place beyond
        Australia shall not be made by a licensee except in conformity with
        the conditions so approved that are applicable to the contract.



"(3) The making by a licensee of a contract otherwise than in accordance with
paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) shall be taken, for the purposes of
sub-section (3) of section 14, to be a contravention by the licensee of the
regulations made for the purposes of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of that
section.



"(4) A contract for the carriage of dairy produce by sea to a place beyond
Australia is not unenforceable, voidable or void by reason only of its having
been made in contravention of paragraph (b) of sub-section (2).



"(5) In this section, 'licensee' means the holder of a licence granted
pursuant to section 14, being a licence that is in force.".