Amendment of the Public Health (Sale of Food and Drugs) Regulations (ACT)

Regulations 1975 No. 16

Regulation under the Public Health Ordinance 1928-1975.*

I, D O U G L A S N I X O N E V E R I N G H A M , the Minister of State for Heal th, hereby

make the following Regulation under the Public Health Ordinance 1928-1975.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of August, 1975.

D . E V E R I N G H A M

Minister of State for Heal th .

A M E N D M E N T OF THE PUBLIC H E A L T H ( S A L E OF FOOD AND D R U G S ) REGULATIONS!

After regulation 4 of the Public Hea l th (Sale of Food and Drugs ) Regula­

t ions the following regulat ion is inse r ted :—
" 4 A . F o o d consisting of fish, crustaceans, molluscs, fish products or canned fish, shall he deemed to b e adulterated if it contains more than one-half of a part of mercu ry calculated as the metal of mercu ry per million parts of fish, crustaceans or molluscs, as the case may be." .

• Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 29 August 1975.
t Regulations made on 15 September 1931, notified in the Gazette and deemed to have come into operation on

24 September 1931; amended by Regulations made on 12 December 1932, notified in the Gazette and deemed to have come into operation on 15 December 1932; the Seat of Government (Designation) Ordinance 1938 (No. 25 of

1938); 1940, Nos. 4 and 5; 1951, N o . 6; 1952, No . 11 ; 1954, No . 9 ; 1961, No . 6; and 1962, N o . 6.

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