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Vegetables Levy Amendment Act 1978

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Short Title

Levy payable in respect of sale of vegetables

Offences and penalties

Vegetables Levy Amendment Act 1978

Public Act		1978 No 133
Date of assent		20 October 1978

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Levy payable in respect of sale of vegetables
3	Offences and penalties
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Vegetables Levy Act 1957

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Vegetables Levy Amendment Act 1978, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Vegetables Levy Act 1957 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Levy payable in respect of sale of vegetables

(1)

Section 3(4) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2 of the Vegetables Levy Amendment Act 1960) is hereby amended by omitting the words “half of one percent”, and substituting the expression “0.5625 percent”.

(2)

Section 3 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (8), the following subsection:

“(8a)

Notwithstanding any rule of law to the contrary, the amount of any levy collected or purported to have been collected by any wholesaler, auctioneer, or processor pursuant to this section shall be deemed to be money held in trust for the Federation by that wholesaler, auctioneer, or processor, as the case may be, until that amount has been paid to the Federation pursuant to subsection (8) of this section.”

3 Offences and penalties

The principal Act is hereby further amended by inserting, after section 6, the following section:

“6a

Every person commits an offence against this Act and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $500, who acts in contravention of or fails to comply in any respect with any provision of this Act, or of any regulations for the time being in force under this Act.”

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Vegetables Levy Amendment Act 1978