Delivered Meals Subsidy Act 1973 (Cth)

Delivered Meals Subsidy Act 1973

No. 129 of 1973

AN ACT

To amend the Delivered Meals Subsidy Act 1970-1972.

[Assented to 13 November 1973]

[Date of Commencement 11 December 1973]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Delivered Meals Subsidy Act 1973. (2) The Delivered Meals Subsidy Act 1970-1972 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Delivered Meals Subsidy Act 1970-1973.

Interpretation. 2. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (2) and substituting the following sub-section:— "(2) A reference in this Act to a period to which this Act applies shall be read as a reference to— (a) the year 1973; and (b) the period of three months commencing on 1st January, 1974, and each succeeding period of three months.".

3. Section 6 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:—

Authorization of payments. "6. (1) Subject to this Act, the Director-General may, in his discretion, authorize the payment to an approved organization, in respect of a period to which this Act applies, of an amount calculated at the rate of— (a) twenty-five cents for each meal in which is included fresh fruit or fruit juice in accordance with an arrangement approved under section 5; and (b) twenty cents for each other meal, being a meal provided by that organization in the course of conducting an approved meal service in the immediately preceding period to which this Act applies. "(2) Where the Minister is satisfied that an. organization that was, during the whole or part of a period to which this Act applies, an approved organization, has ceased to exist before receiving a payment under this Act in respect of the next succeeding period to which this Act applies, he may give a direction in writing that the meals provided by that organization in the course of conducting an approved meals service in the first-mentioned period shall be deemed, for the purposes of sub­section (1), to have been so provided by such approved organization or organizations and in such proportions as between those organizations (if more than one) as he thinks fit.".