{"id":"C1935A00015","name":"Wheat Commission Act 1935","slug":"wheat-commission-act-1935","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"15 of 1935","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":3746,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1935A00015-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Wheat Commission Act 1935","content":"WHEAT COMMISSION.\n\nNo. 15 of 1935.\n\nAn Act to facilitate the proceedings of the Royal Commission appointed to hold an Inquiry respecting certain matters in relation to the economic position of the industries of growing, handling and marketing wheat, manufacturing flour and other commodities from wheat, and manufacturing, distributing and selling bread.\n\n\\[Assented to 12th April, 1935.\\]\n\nBE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—\n\nShort title.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Wheat Commission Act 1935.\n\nPowers, &c., of Commission.\n\n2. The Commission appointed by the Governor-General on the twenty-fifth day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, by Letters Patent, in the name of the King, directed to Sir Herbert William Gepp, Knight, Thomas Stanley Cheadle, Esquire, Charles Walter Harper, Esquire, Edward Patrick Michael Sheedy, Esquire, and Professor Samuel MacMahon Wadham, to inquire into and report upon the economic position of the industries of growing, handling and marketing wheat, manufacturing flour and other commodities from wheat, and manufacturing, distributing and selling bread, shall have all the powers, rights and privileges which are specified in the Royal Commissions Act 1902–1933 as appertaining to a Royal Commission, and the provisions contained in that Act shall have effect as if they were herein enacted and in terms made applicable to the Commission so appointed.\n\nQuorum.\n\n3. For the purpose of taking evidence any two members of the Commission referred to in the last preceding section shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Letters Patent referred to in that section, be sufficient to constitute a quorum.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1655},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"As the original 1935 enactment, the Act remains precisely targeted at its initial narrow purpose: conferring statutory powers on the 1934 Wheat Royal Commission and adjusting its quorum rules. No expansion beyond facilitating this specific inquiry."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative sections","Single cross-reference to the Royal Commissions Act 1902-1933","No defined terms or interpretation clauses","Simple procedural modification reducing quorum requirements"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act gives statutory force to a Royal Commission into Australia’s wheat and bread industries during the Great Depression, importing the compulsory summons, document-production and sworn-evidence powers of the Royal Commissions Act.  \n\nIt also relaxes quorum requirements so any two commissioners may hear evidence. It affects wheat growers, handlers, millers, bakers and anyone compelled to give testimony or records, enabling a full inquiry into industry failures and supply issues."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/wheat-commission-act-1935","history":"/api/acts/wheat-commission-act-1935/history","analysis":"/api/acts/wheat-commission-act-1935/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/wheat-commission-act-1935/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/wheat-commission-act-1935/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/wheat-commission-act-1935/documents"}}