This Act, consisting of 165 sections, concerns the marketing of primary products in New South Wales. It provides for the establishment and organization of marketing boards. Under the Act, primary products include "any grain, cereal, fruit (fresh, dried or canned), vegetable, livestock, meat, hay, chaff, poultry (live or dead), honey, beeswax or other product of agriculture, grazing, poultry-farming or bee-keeping in New South Wales, and any dairy produce (including butter and cheese) and any other article prepared directly from the produce of agriculture, grazing, poultry-farming or bee-keeping in New South Wales". The Act is divided into the following Parts: Preliminary (1); Constitution of marketing boards (2); Marketing of commodities: marketing boards (3); Constitution of marketing committees (4); Marketing of commodities: marketing orders (5); Financial provisions (6); Public accountability (7); Statistics, marketing information and promotion (8); Inspection etc. (9); and Winding up, arrangements etc. (10); Miscellaneous (11). Functions of marketing boards include to: ensure the wholesomeness and purity of the commodity in the interests of public health; establish grades, classes or descriptions of the commodity and fix the price at which it shall be sold; establish and conduct processing or manufacturing facilities for the commodity and market any of the products processed or manufactured; and appoint authorized agents and authorized buyers.
Australia · 1983-12-31