Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsIn this Act--
agreement means an agreement between a processor or processors and a grower or growers relating wholly or partly to the receival, purchase, supply or sale of broiler chickens for processing.
broiler chicken means a chicken that is being or has been grown under intensive housing conditions specifically for human consumption as meat after processing.
chairperson means the chairperson of the committee, and includes a deputy of the chairperson whilst acting as chairperson.
chicken means a fowl of the species Gallus gallus or other species or subspecies developed by domestication that is of an age of 16 weeks or less.
chicken meat means meat produced from broiler chickens.
collective negotiations means negotiations between growers or their representatives and a processor for making an agreement.
committee means the Chicken Meat Industry Committee established by this Act.
competition legislation means the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cwlth), section 51(1)(b), or the text of that provision as included in section 51(1)(b) of the Competition Code of Queensland.
Editor's notes--
1 Section 51 (Exceptions) of the Code provides--
'... the following must be disregarded:
(a) ...
(b) anything done in a State, if the thing is specified in, and specifically authorised by:
(i) an Act passed by the Parliament of that State; or'.
2 The Code applies as a law of Queensland under the Competition Policy Reform (Queensland) Act 1996, part 2.
grower means a person who grows chickens in such numbers as will permit the supply thereof to a processor as broiler chickens in batches of 1000 or more.
negotiated agreement means an agreement made as a result of collective negotiations.
person includes a partnership or firm and a body of persons, corporate or unincorporate.
processing, in relation to broiler chickens, means killing and preparing for sale for human consumption as meat.
processor means a person who receives or purchases broiler chickens for processing and includes a person who receives or purchases from a grower broiler chickens for sale to another person for processing by that other person.