Sugar Industry (Arbitration for Mill Owners and Sugar Marketing Entities) Amendment Bill 2017* (Qld)

An Act to amend the Sugar Industry Act 1999 for particular purposes The Parliament of Queensland enacts—

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Sugar Industry (Arbitration for Mill Owners and Sugar Marketing Entities) Amendment Act 2017 .

2 Act amended This Act amends the Sugar Industry Act 1999 .

3 Amendment of ch 2, hdg (Supply contracts and cane access rights) Chapter 2, heading, after 'contracts'— insert— , on-supply agreements,

4 Omission of ch 2, pt 2, div 1 hdg (Cane supply is governed by supply contracts) Chapter 2, part 2, division 1, heading— omit.

5 Amendment of s 33A (Arbitration of disputed terms of intended supply contract) (1) Section 33A(2)(b), '(5) to (9)'— omit, insert— (4) to (9) and section 37 (2) Section 33A(3), after '(9)'— insert— and section 37 (3) Section 33A(11), definition arbitral tribunal— omit.

6 Amendment of s 33B (Terms of supply contract about sale of on-supply sugar) (1) Section 33B, heading, from 'Terms' to 'sugar'— omit, insert— Particular terms of supply contract (2) Section 33B(2)(c)(i)— omit, insert— (i) a term stating the way in which the mill economic interest sugar is to be worked out and requiring the mill owner to bear the sale price exposure for the sale of the mill economic interest sugar; (3) Section 33B(2)(c)(ii), from 'remaining' to 'sugar)'— omit, insert— grower economic interest sugar (4) Section 33B(2)(d)(i), from 'agreement' to 'interest sugar'— omit, insert— on-supply agreement with a stated entity (the GEI sugar marketing entity) for the sale of the grower economic interest sugar (5) Section 33B(2)— insert— (f) a term providing for a process for dispute resolution including arbitration and requiring the grower and mill owner to attempt to resolve any dispute about a term of the supply contract by using the process.