This Act may be cited as the Sharemilking Agreements Amendment Act 1985, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Sharemilking Agreements Act 1937 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section 3(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “other sharemilking agreement”, and substituting the words “bona fide sharemilking agreement whereby the sharemilker receives one-half of the returns or profits derived from the dairy farming operations which are the subject-matter of the agreement, and the employer, for the purposes of the agreement, bails or leases the dairy herd or part of it to the sharemilker for an adequate consideration”.

Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall apply in respect of any sharemilking agreement to which the subsection relates made before the commencement of this section.