Queensland Numbered Acts

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES ACTS AMENDMENT AND REPEAL ACT 2007 No. 26 - SECT 5

After section 30--

insert--

'On the dissolution day--

(a) amounts in the fund become the assets of the State; and

(b) the liabilities mentioned in section 14(3) become liabilities of the State; and

(c) the board is dissolved.

'(1) A proceeding by or against the board that has not been finished before the dissolution day may be continued and finished by or against the State.

'(2) If, because of an event that happened before the dissolution day, a proceeding could have been started by or against the board, it may be started by or against the State after the dissolution day.

'(1) The employment of a person employed by the board immediately before the dissolution day is ended on the dissolution day, and is taken to be lawfully terminated under the Industrial Relations Act 1999.

'(2) The person has the rights given to an employee whose employment has been lawfully terminated under that Act.

'(3) The rights given to the person may be exercised against the State as if the State had been the employer who terminated the person's employment.

'(1) Each person who, immediately before the dissolution day, was a member of the board goes out of office on the dissolution day.

'(2) No compensation is payable because of subsection (1).

'(1) This section applies to an appointment, in force immediately before the dissolution day, of a person as the secretary to the board.

'(2) On the dissolution day, the person goes out of office.

'(3) No compensation is payable because of subsection (2).

'(4) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (2) does not affect the secretary's employment as a public service employee.

'A person authorised by the board to exercise powers under section 21, is, on and from the dissolution day, no longer authorised to exercise the powers.

'(1) Proceedings for an offence against the Act may, from the dissolution day, be continued or started by the State and the provisions of the Act necessary or convenient to be used in relation to the proceedings continue to apply as if the amendment Act had not commenced.

'(2) This section is declared to be a law to which the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 20A, applies.

'This Act is repealed immediately after the dissolution day.'.