23Resolution to levy rates

23 Resolution to levy rates

23 Resolution to levy rates

(1) Within the period of 2 months before the commencement of each financial year, a committee must make a resolution as to the rates to be levied on its constituents during that year—

(a) for agricultural industry services to be performed by the committee during that year, as described in its current 5-year plan, and

(b) for agricultural industry services performed by the committee during previous financial years, to the extent to which rates levied in previous financial years have not paid for those services.

(2) Such a resolution may not be made otherwise than in accordance with—

(a) a resolution carried at a meeting of the committee’s constituents within the previous 12 months, or

(b) a proposal supported by more than half of the votes cast in a poll referred to in section 4 (5) in which more than half of the committee’s proposed constituents cast votes.

s 23: Am 2007 No 76, Sch 1 [3].