Amendments of the Meat Regulations (ACT)

Regulations 1978 No. 16

Regulation under the Meat Ordinance 1931*

I, RALPH JAMES DUNNET HUNT, the Minister of State for Health, hereby make the following Regulation under the Meat Ordinance 1931.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of September 1978.

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Health

AMENDMENTS OF THE MEAT REGULATIONS!

Regulation 20A of the Meat Regulations is amended—

(a)

by omitting paragraphs (2) (b), (2) (c), (2) (d) and " (b) the meat has been marked at that abattoir with a

brand;

(c)	the meat is accompanied by a certificate of a meat inspector employed at that abattoir bearing a replica of that brand and certifying that the meat has been passed by that inspector as fit for human con­ sumption; and
(d)	the meat is transported from that abattoir to its destination in the Territory by means of a vehicle approved by the Commissioner."; and

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (4) and substituting the follow­ ing sub-regulation:

" (4) A permit expressed in accordance with sub- regulation (3) does not authorize the bringing of meat into the Territory unless—

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

(a) the meat is in the form of packaged cuts;

(b)	the meat has been frozen to, and maintained during transport at, a temperature not exceeding minus 18 degrees Celsius; and
(c)	the meat is accompanied by a certificate of a meat inspector employed at the establishment at which the meat was frozen certifying that the meat has been passed by him as fit for human consumption.".

• Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 12 October 1978.

t Meat Regulations 1931 notified in the Gazette on 30 July 1931 as amended by Regulations notified in the

Gazette oaT7 August 1931, 10 March 1932. 4 January 1934, 2 April 1936, and 22 December 1938 and by Regulations
1945, N o . 1; 1953, N o . 5 : 1970, No. 3 ; 1971, No. 14: 1975. No . 3 1 : and 1976. No. 20.