3Simplified outline

3 Simplified outline

The following is a simplified outline of this Act and some related material.

This Act provides for a company to be declared as the industry services body for the Australian horticultural industry and a company to be declared as the industry export control body. The same company could be declared to be both bodies (see Part 2).

This Act provides for the industry services body to receive funding from the Commonwealth (see Part 3).

It also requires the industry services body and the industry export control body to act in accordance with a deed of agreement, which imposes obligations on the body and contains details about the body’s accountability to the Commonwealth.

The Act and the deed provide consequences for breach of the deed. These include ceasing to be declared (see section 10), being subject to an injunction (see section 27) or, in the case of the industry services body, suspension or recovery of funding (see section 16 and the deed). The text of the deed is not included in the Act but it is publicly available (see section 14).

The Horticulture Marketing and Research and Development Services (Repeals and Consequential Provisions) Act 2000 abolishes the Australian Horticultural Corporation, the Horticultural Research and Development Corporation and the Australian Dried Fruits Board. It also deals with matters arising from the transition to the new bodies, such as transfer of staff and assets from the Corporations.

The Export Control Act 2020 regulates the export of certain horticultural products.