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Act No. 45
HOMEBUSH ABATTOIR CORPORATION (DISSOLUTION
AND TRANSFER) BILL 1991
NEW SOUTH WALES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This Explanatory Note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament)
The objects of this Bill are:
(a) to dissolve the Homebush Abattoir Corporation constituted by the Meat
Industry Act 1978; and
(b) to constitute a body corporate with the name of the Homebush Bay Ministerial
Corporation, to transfer the assets, liabilities and staff of the dissolved
corporation to the new corporation and to give it certain functions in relation to
transferred property and other property acquired by it; and
(c) to amend various Acts consequentially.
PART 1--PRELIMINARY
Clause 1 specifies the short title of the proposed Act.
Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act.
Clause 3 defines certain terms used m the proposed Act.
PART 2--ESTABLISHMENT OF HOMEBUSH BAY MINISTERIAL
CORPORATION
Clause 4 constitutes a corporation with the name the Homebush Bay Ministerial
Corporation. The corporation will have the functions of holding, on behalf of the
Crown, transferring and disposing of assets, rights and liabilities of the dissolved
Homebush Abattoir Corporation transferred to it under the proposed Act. The
Ministerial Corporation will be able to develop land transferred to it or acquired by it, to
dispose of, or otherwise deal with, property and to carry an any activities or business
relating to those assets, rights and liabilities or to that land or property. Any of the
assets, rights and liabilities transferred to the Ministerial Corporation may be transferred
to the Crown or to any person on behalf of the Crown.
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Homebush Abattoir Corporation (Dissolution and Transfer) 1991
PART 3--DISSOLUTION OF HOMEBUSH ABATTOIR CORPORATION
AND TRANSFER OF ASSETS ETC.
Clause 5 dissolves the Homebush Abattoir Corporation constituted by the Meat
Industry Act 1978 and transfers its assets, rights and liabilities to the Homebush Bay
Ministerial Corporation.
Clause 6 provides that instruments connected with the transfer of assets, rights and
liabilities from the Homebush Abattoir Corporation to the Homebush Bay Ministerial
Corporation are not chargeable with stamp duty.
PART 4--STAFF OF HOMEBUSH ABATTOIR CORPORATION
Clause 7 provides that staff of the dissolved Homebush Abattoir Corporation are to
become employees of the Homebush Bay Ministerial Corporation.
Clause 8 preserves the superannuation entitlements of that staff.
Clause 9 preserves the leave entitlements of that staff.
Clause 10 provides that such entitlements cannot be claimed both under the
proposed Act and another Act in respect of the same period of service.
PART 5--MISCELLANEOUS
Clause 11 enables regulations to be made containing savings and transitional
provisions.
Clause 12 gives effect to Schedule 1 which contains consequential amendments to
the Meat Industry Act 1978.
Clause 13 gives effect to Schedule 2 which amends various other Acts to change
references to the Homebush Abattoir Corporation to the Homebush Bay Ministerial
Corporation.
SCHEDULE 1--AMENDMENT OF MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1978
Schedule 1 contains consequential amendments to the Meat Industry Act 1978.
SCHEDULE 2--CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO OTHER ACTS
Schedule 2 contains consequential amendments to other Acts.