This Act may be cited as the Wool Commission Amendment Act 1961, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Wool Commission Act 1951 (herein after referred to as the principal Act).

Section 3 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (2), and substituting the following subsections:

The first member to be appointed under paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 3 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2 of this Act) shall be appointed as soon as may be convenient after the commencement of this Act, and the member holding office as Chairman of the Commission immediately before the commencement of this Act shall continue to hold that office until that member is appointed and shall thereupon cease to hold that office.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of this Act, every member of the Commission in office immediately before the commencement of this Act and appointed under paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subsection (2) of section 3 of the principal Act (as repealed by section 2 of this Act) shall be deemed to have been duly appointed as members of the Commission under paragraphs (a), (c), and (d) respectively of subsection (2) of section 3 of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2 of this Act).

The term of office of every person deemed by sub section (2) of this section to have been appointed a member of the Commission shall expire with the date on which, but for the passing of this Act, his term would have expired under the provisions of the principal Act.