Local Government (Newcastle Fruit and Vegetable Market) Act 1972 (NSW)

Local Government (Newcastle Fruit and Vegetable Market) Act 1972 No 7

An Act to constitute a Newcastle Fruit and Vegetable Marketing District; to control the wholesale marketing of fruit and vegetables in public markets within the marketing district so constituted; and for purposes connected therewith.

1 Name of Act and construction (1) This Act may be cited as the Local Government (Newcastle Fruit and Vegetable Market) Act 1972. (2) The Local Government Act 1919 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3) This Act shall be read and construed with the Principal Act.

2 Definitions In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires: appointed day means the day on and from which the Newcastle marketing district is constituted under section three of this Act. Council means the Council of the City of Newcastle. exempt fruit and vegetables means fruit and vegetables exempted from the provisions of this Act by ordinance. Newcastle marketing district means the Newcastle Fruit and Vegetable Marketing District constituted under section three of this Act. new market means, where the Council provides a public market as referred to in section four of this Act, that market. prescribed period means the period of ten years that next succeeds the appointed day. wholesaler means a person entitled, immediately before the appointed day, to occupy accommodation in the public market situated at Steel Street and King Street, Newcastle for the purpose of carrying on (whether on behalf of producers or other persons or on his own behalf) the business of selling fruit and vegetables by wholesale and includes a person on whom the right to occupy the accommodation made available to that wholesaler for carrying on that business in the new market devolves by agreement or by operation of law.