The Australian Dairy Produce Board, formerly the Dairy Produce Control Board (CA 94), was responsible for the sale of butter and cheese in the United Kingdom and for determining minimum terms and conditions of export to other markets. It also exercised sales promotion and research functions under provisions of the Dairy Produce Research and Sales Promotion Act. The Act authorised the setting up of a Dairy Produce Research Committee which submitted to the Board proposals for expenditure of money from the Dairy Produce Research Trust Account but the majority of its nine members were also members of the Board and the two bodies had the same Chairman.

Under the Dairy Produce Export Control Act 1935 the membership of the Board was extended from the 12 elected members of the Dairy Produce Control Board to 16, making, with the representative of the Commonwealth Government, a total of 17 members, as follows:-
(a) One member appointed by the Governor-General as the
    representative of the Commonwealth Government,
(b) One representative to be elected by the Federal Council of
    the Australian Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries'
    Association,
(c) Two representatives elected by the owners of proprietary 
    butter and cheese factories and privately owned butter and
    cheese factories,
(d) Two representatives of co-operative butter and cheese
    factories in each of the States of New South Wales, Victoria
    and Queensland, and one representative of co-operative butter
    and cheese factories in each of the States of South
    Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania,
(e) One representative of each of the States of New South Wales,
    Victoria and Queensland, elected by the producers in each of
    these States,
(f) One representative of the States of South Australia, Western
    Australia, and Tasmania elected by the producers of those
    States.

In 1947, by an amendment to the Act, the Australian Dairy Produce Board was reconstructed along the following lines:-
(1) A Chairman nominated by the Government,
(2) Two members to represent the dairy farmers of Australia,
(3) One member from each of the States of NSW, Victoria,
    Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania,
    to represent the co-operative butter and cheese factories in
    each of those States,
(4) Two members to represent proprietary butter and cheese
    factories and privately owned butter and cheese factories,
(5) One member to represent employees of butter and cheese
    factories.

The reconstituted Board came into operation on 1 July 1948. Under Section 20 of the Act, the Board, subject to any direction of the Minister, with respect to any dairy produce intended for export, had full authority to make such arrangements and give such directions as it thought fit for the following matters:-
(1) Handling, marketing and storage of produce
(2) Shipment of dairy produce on such terms and in such
    quantities as it thought fit
(3) Sale and disposal of any produce on such terms as it thought
    fit
(4) All such matters as were necessary for the due discharge of
    its functions in handling, distributing and disposing of the
    dairy produce
(5) Purchase and sale for the purpose of export, on behalf of the
    Commonwealth, of dairy produce and the management and control
    of all matters connected with the handling, storage,
    protection, treatment, transfer and shipment of dairy produce
    so purchased or sold by the Commonwealth.

On 1 July 1975 the Dairy Produce Act 1975 abolished the Australian Dairy Produce Board and established the Australian Dairy Corporation (CA 2338).

  1935-by1943: Aberdeen House, 528 Collins Street, Melbourne
by1943-by1958: Phosphate House, 515 Collins Street, Melbourne
by1959-by1968: 406 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
by1968-  1975: 576 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

Creation: Commonwealth of Australia Acts, No. 7 of 1935, Dairy Produce Export Control Act, 1935
Abolition: Commonwealth of Australia Acts, No. 82 of 1975, Dairy Produce Act, 1975