Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HORTICULTURE MARKETING AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ACT 2000 - SECT 12

  (1)   The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, enter into a deed of agreement with a body (which is proposed to be the industry services body) for the purposes of this subsection.

  (2)   The Minister may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, enter into a deed of agreement with a body (which is proposed to be the industry export control body) for the purposes of this subsection.

Note:   A single deed of agreement may be entered into for the purposes of subsections   (1) and (2) if the same body is declared to be the industry services body and the export control body.

  (3)   Subsections   (1) and (2) do not, by implication, limit the executive power of the Commonwealth to enter into agreements.

  (4)   Nothing in this Act is to be taken, by implication, to prevent the enforcement of a deed of agreement as a contract.