Western Australian Numbered Acts

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE COMMISSION AMENDMENT ACT 2021 (NO. 11 OF 2021) - SECT 19

19 .         Section 15A inserted

                After section 15 insert:

15A.         Dissolution of producers’ committee without poll

        (1)         The Commission may dissolve a producers’ committee if the Commission is satisfied that the producers’ committee —

            (a)         is operating in a manner that is materially to the financial detriment of a producer or producers of agricultural produce for which it has responsibility; or

            (b)         is no longer providing any service the producers’ committee is authorised to provide.

        (2)         If the Commission resolves to dissolve a producers’ committee, then on a day specified by the Commission by notice published in the Gazette , the affairs of the producers’ committee must commence to be wound up by —

            (a)         the Commission; or

            (b)         a liquidator appointed by the Commission.

        (3)         Section 15(3A) to (7) applies, with any necessary modifications, to the dissolution of a producers’ committee under this section.