Section 3 amends section 6 of the Principal Act by increasing the number of ordinary CBF board members from nine to eleven. The two additional members, one representative of producers and one representative of the meat export trade, are proposed in the light of the extension of CBF's role to pigmeat. This section also allows the number of ordinary members to be further increased by the Minister by regulations. I am reading from the explanatory memorandum.
I would like some assurances from the Minister in relation to the make-up of the board. The point has been made — and I glad that it has been expanded — to include people from the pigmeat industry. I would like to see a board made up of representatives of the pigmeat, sheepmeat and the beef industry. It is important that the Minister gets a proper balance of interests on the board of CBF. There would be a lot of resentment among the sheepmeat people if they were excluded. I urge the Minister when he is appointing his members and expanding the board that due cognisance will be taken of all the interests in the meat export trace whether it be beef, pigmeat or sheepmeat. The Minister might like to give some assurances along those lines.