📜 Agricultural Produce Commission Amendment Bill 2021
Assented toLCBill 1827 May 2021
This Bill amends the Agricultural Produce Commission Act 1988 to implement recommendations from a 2006 review, modernise the Act, improve governance, and remove certain industry exclusions.
Impact
Agricultural producers and the Agricultural Produce Commission are affected. The changes aim to improve the Commission's responsiveness and governance, potentially impacting how producer committees are established and operate.
Key Changes
["Allows the Commission to allocate responsibility for produce to existing committees.", "Enables the removal of responsibility for agricultural produce from producers\u2019 committees.", "Clarifies the definition of 'agricultural industry' by changing the exclusion related to broadacre cropping and grazing."]
Parliamentary Progress
- LC Second Reading MovedLC27 May 2021
- LC Second Reading AgreedLC22 June 2021
- LC AmendedLC4 Aug 2021
- LC Third ReadingLC5 Aug 2021
- LA IntroducedLA11 Aug 2021
- LA Second Reading MovedLA11 Aug 2021
- LA Third ReadingLA12 Aug 2021
- LA Second Reading AgreedLA12 Aug 2021
- LA Consideration in DetailLA12 Aug 2021
- Royal Assent17 Aug 2021
Affected Sectors
agriculture
Penalty Provisions2 found
criminal
19ECriminalfine
Failure to comply with directions from an authorised officer
“19E. Failure to comply with directions”
19GCriminalfine
Providing false or misleading information
“19G. False or misleading information”
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