FIJI ISLANDS

SUGAR CANE GROWERS FUND (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1999

ACT NO. 26 OF 1999

I assent.

[L.S.]
K. K. T. MARA
President

[20.9.99]

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE SUGAR CANE GROWERS FUND ACT

ENACTED by the Parliament of the Fiji Islands-

Short title etc.

1.-(1) This Act maybe cited as the Sugar Cane Growers Fund (Amendment) Act 1999.

(2) In this Act-

“amendment Act” means the Sugar Cane Growers Fund (Amendment) Act 1998 (Act No.29 of 1998);

“principal Act” means the Sugar Cane Growers Fund Act (Cap. 207).

Interpretation

2. Section 2 of the principal Act is amended in the definition “Select Committee”-

(a) by deleting “No. 65” and substituting “No. 106A”;

(b) by deleting “26 June 1992” and substituting “2nd July 1999”.

3.-(1) Sections 4 and 15 of the principal Act are amended by repealing the amendments respectively made to them by sections 2 and 3 of the amendment Act.

(2) The amendment Act is repealed.

(3) Section 4 of the principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection-

“(5) Any sum paid out of the Fund in the form of financial assistance under this section as amended by the Sugar Cane Growers (Amendment) Act 1998 is repayable over a period of 5 years commencing on 1st January 1999 out of the Consolidated Fund, which is appropriated accordingly in each of those years.”

Passed by the House of Representatives this 24th day of August 1999.

Passed by the Senate this 14th day of September 1999.
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