{"id":"C2004A02078","name":"Wine Overseas Marketing Amendment Act 1979","slug":"wine-overseas-marketing-amendment-act-1979","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"68 of 1979","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":6937,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A02078-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Wine Overseas Marketing Amendment Act 1979","content":"Wine Overseas Marketing Amendment Act 1979\n\nNo. 68 of 1979\n\nAn Act to amend section 21 of the Wine Overseas Marketing Act 1929.\n\nBE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:\n\nShort title, &c.\n\n1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Wine Overseas Marketing Amendment Act 1979.\n\n(2) The Wine Overseas Marketing Act 1929 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.\n\nCommencement\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which the Wine Grapes Levy Collection Act 1979 comes into operation.\n\nPayment to Board of amounts of levy, &c.\n\n3. Section 21 of the Principal Act is amended—\n\n(a) by omitting all the words after “received” and substituting “by the Commonwealth under the Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929 (including that Act in its application by virtue of sub-section 3 (2) of the Wine Grapes Charges (Repeal) Act 1979) and under sections 4 and 5 of the Wine Grapes Levy Collection Act 1979.”; and\n\n(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:\n\n“(2) Where—\n\n(a) an amount has been refunded by the Commonwealth in accordance with sub-section 7 (1) or (2) of the Wine Grapes Levy Collection Act 1979; and\n\n(b) the amount so refunded has been taken into account in calculating the amount of a payment under sub-section (1),\n\n![](image.001.png)the Board shall pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to the amount so refunded.”.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1375},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This amendment maintains the original scope of the Wine Overseas Marketing Act 1929. It is a machinery provision updating the administrative mechanisms for funding the Wine Board to align with new levy collection legislation, without expanding the Board's powers or the Act's regulatory reach."},"complexity_factors":["Amendment requires tracking cross-references to three other pieces of legislation (Wine Grapes Charges Act 1929, Wine Grapes Charges (Repeal) Act 1979, and Wine Grapes Levy Collection Act 1979)","Conditional commencement clause tied to commencement of another Act","Technical financial adjustment mechanism involving refund clawbacks","Requires understanding of the relationship between the Commonwealth as levy collector and the Wine Board as marketing authority"],"plain_english_summary":"This amendment updates how the Australian Wine Board receives growers’ levies, bringing payments collected under the new Wine Grapes Levy Collection Act 1979 and related laws into the Board’s funding rules. It also requires the Board to repay any amounts that were forwarded to it but later refunded to growers by the Commonwealth.\n\nIt primarily affects the Wine Board and levy-collecting Commonwealth agencies, fixing accounting mechanics so refunded levy money cannot be retained by the Board."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/wine-overseas-marketing-amendment-act-1979","history":"/api/acts/wine-overseas-marketing-amendment-act-1979/history","analysis":"/api/acts/wine-overseas-marketing-amendment-act-1979/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/wine-overseas-marketing-amendment-act-1979/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/wine-overseas-marketing-amendment-act-1979/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/wine-overseas-marketing-amendment-act-1979/documents"}}