Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Subject to any
direction given by the Commission and to this section a producers’
committee may provide any one or more of the following services as are
prescribed in relation to the agricultural produce for which the
producers’ committee has responsibility —
(a)
advertise and promote the agricultural produce;
(b)
control or develop the means of controlling pests and diseases if there is a
likelihood of those pests or diseases affecting the quality or volume of
output of the agricultural produce;
(c)
conduct research in relation to any matter, if in the opinion of the
producers’ committee that research is of advantage to producers of the
agricultural produce;
(d)
conduct educational or instructional programmes that, in the opinion of the
producers’ committee, may be of advantage to producers of the
agricultural produce;
(e)
develop and expand markets for the agricultural produce in Western Australia
and elsewhere;
(f)
establish a voluntary insurance scheme for the benefit of producers of the
agricultural produce including insurance relating to crops;
(g)
undertake and provide market forecasting for the agricultural produce;
(h)
establish systems of inspection for the agricultural produce for the purpose
of quality control or pest and disease control;
(i)
formulate schemes for declaring producers of the
agricultural produce to be accredited producers;
(j)
establish systems to facilitate inspection of grading, packaging and storage
of the agricultural produce including weight and uniformity (including
uniformity of ripeness) within packages;
(k)
support, with or without grant of financial aid, and whether or not initiated
by the committee or the Commission, any scheme or activity which in the
committee’s opinion is capable of assisting in the production, promotion
or sale of the agricultural produce;
(l)
provide such other services for the agricultural produce as may be prescribed;
(la)
establish a compensation scheme for the benefit of producers whose
agricultural produce is destroyed as a result of a pest or disease of that
produce or action taken to control a pest or disease of that produce;
(m)
arrange for the provision of all or any of the services or the exercise of any
of the functions referred to in paragraphs (a) to (la) in whole or in part by
another person or organisation or in conjunction with the Commission or any
other person or organisation.
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(3) A producers’
committee must not provide any service or recommend the imposition of any
charge for any service or proposed service additional to the service or
services the producers’ committee is authorised to provide unless the
producers’ committee has conducted a poll of the producers concerned and
the poll is in favour of the proposal.
(4) The costs of any
poll shall be charged to the general funds of the producers’ committee.
(5) A producers’
committee may, for the purposes of providing services in relation to
agricultural produce —
(a)
communicate, consult or liaise with producers of agricultural produce; and
(b) hold
meetings with producers of agricultural produce.
[Section 12 amended: No. 73 of 1994 s. 4; No. 49
of 1996 s. 64; No. 20 of 2000 s. 15, 28, 30 and 31; No. 11 of 2021 s. 13.]