12DEntitlements to services under designated disease control program

12D Entitlements to services under designated disease control program

12D Entitlements to services under designated disease control program

(1) A transaction based contributor to an industry fund is entitled during any financial year to receive such services under a designated disease control program as may be specified for such a contributor in the approved policy and priority guidelines for the fund if—

(a) the contributor has paid at least one transaction based contribution under the relevant transaction based contribution scheme during the previous financial year, and

(b) the contributor has not obtained a refund of any transaction based contribution paid by the contributor under the relevant transaction based contribution scheme during the previous financial year.

(2) A receipt of the kind referred to in section 12C (3) is evidence that the livestock producer named in the receipt made the transaction based contribution specified in the receipt on the date specified in the receipt.

(3) Despite subsection (1), a fund administrator for an industry fund for a designated disease control program may refuse to provide a service to a designated livestock producer if the fund administrator is satisfied that the producer negligently or intentionally contributed to the outbreak or the spread of the designated disease for which the service is sought.

(4) Nothing in this section prevents a person who is not a transaction based contributor to an industry fund or any other person from receiving a service under a designated disease control program if the fund administrator decides to provide the service to that person.

pt 3, div 2, sdiv 2 (ss 12B–12E): Ins 2004 No 45, Sch 1 [15].