Appointment of Commissioner for the commission of inquiry into grain storage, handling and transport (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth:

TO:

JAMES CARVEL McCOLL

GREETING:

We DO by these Our Letters Patent issued in Our name by Our Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia on the advice of the Federal Executive Council and pursuant to the Royal Commissions Act 1902 and every other enabling power, appoint you to be a Commissioner to inquire into the most efficient and cost-effective integrated system that might be instituted in Australia for the purpose of providing storage, handling and transport services and port terminal services to Australian grain marketing authorities and organisations and Australian grain growers for the storage, handling and transporting of wheat and other grains -

(a) in the course of, or for the purposes of, overseas or interstate trade or trade with a Territory; or

(b) in a Territory or for the purposes of marketing or use in a Territory:

AND We direct you to make such recommendations arising out of your inquiry as you think appropriate, including recommendations regarding the legislative or administrative changes, if any, that are necessary or desirable:

AND, without restricting the scope of your inquiry or in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, We direct you, for the purposes of your inquiry and recommendations, to give particular attention to the following matters, namely -

(c) the standard of the grain storage, handling and transport services and port terminal services sought by Australian grain marketing authorities and organisations and Australian grain growers and the appropriateness of those standards;

(d) the institutional arrangements to which the organisations providing grain storage, handling and transport services and port terminal services are at present subject and any alternative arrangements that might be made;