Bread Act Amendment Act 1963 (WA)

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BREAD.

12° Elizabeth II., No. XLI.

No. 41 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend the Bread Act, 1903-1962.

[Assented to 25th November, 1963.]

RE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Bread Act att..

Amendment Act, 1963.

Vol. 13 of the

(2) In this Act the Bread Act, 1903-1962, is

Reprinted

Acts.

referred to as the principal Act. Approved for reprint 10th July,

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act	amended by
1958, and

may be cited as the Bread Act, 1903-1963.	of 1962.
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Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a day to

be fixed by proclamation.

S. 3

amended. 3. Section three of the principal Act is

amended

(a) by adding after the interpretation, "Chief Inspector", the following interpretation

"Dietetic bread" means bread made in

accordance with a formula prescribed

for the purpose by the regulations. ;

(b) by adding after the interpretation,

"Inspector", the following interpreta-

tion

"Milk bread" means bread made in conformity in all respects with the standard prescribed for milk bread by the regulations. ;

(c) by substituting for the interpretation, "Rolls" the following interpretation

"Rolls" mean bread made from a quantity of dough that weighs not more than four ounces. ;

and

(d) by adding after the interpretation, "Standard wheaten bread", the following interpretation

"Total dry matter" means in relation to any bread, including Vienna bread, the content of water-free substance of that bread.

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amended. 4. Section four of the principal Act is

amended

(a) by substituting a semi-colon for the full stop at the end of paragraph (c) of sub- section (1), and adding after that paragraph, the following paragraph

(d) not more than four ounces for rolls. ;

and

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(b) by adding after subsection (4), the follow- ing subsection

(5) Any person who weighs out or causes to be weighed out dough in a quantity exceeding the greater quantity mentioned in paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (1) of this section, or the quantity mentioned in paragraph (d) of that subsection, or the greater quantity mentioned in paragraph (b) of section four A of this Act, shall be deemed to have weighed out or caused to be weighed out dough for the making of a loaf of the next larger size than that to which that quantity or greater quantity of dough, as the case may require, applies under the provisions referred to in this paragraph.

5. The principal Act is amended by adding after 241.

section four, the following section-

4A. No person shall make dietetic bread for bLe is

sale, or sell any bread as dietetic bread, unless

the following provisions are complied with:

(a)	The bread is made in accordance with the formula prescribed for the purpose by the regulations; and
(b)	all dough intended to be made into dietetic bread is weighed out in the quantities referred to in any of paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of sub- section (1) of section four of this Act, or in quantities not less than nine ounces or more than ten ounces, for a dietetic loaf; and
(c)	the loaf is enclosed in a wrapper marked with such particulars and information as to the ingredients thereof and its dietetic value as prescribed by the regulations.

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amended. 6. Section five of the principal Act is amended

by adding after subsection (4), the following

subsection

(5) Any person who weighs out or causes to be weighed out dough in a quantity exceeding the greater quantity mentioned in respect of a. No. 1 Vienna loaf in paragraph (b) of sub- section (1) of this section, shall be deemed to have weighed out or caused to be weighed out dough for the making of a No. 2 Vienna loaf under this section.

3. 5A

added. 7. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section five, the following section-

Method of

making	5A. (1) No person shall make milk bread for sale, or sell any milk bread, unless the following provisions have been complied with in the manufacture of the milk bread:
milk bread.

(a)	The bread shall be baked in a tin so embossed that when baked there is clearly and durably marked on a side of the loaf, "Milk-24 oz", in characters not less than one inch high; and
(b)	all dough intended to be made into milk bread shall be weighed out in the bakehouse in quantities not less than one lb. eleven ounces or more than one lb. thirteen ounces for a loaf.

(2)

After the dough for the loaves has been weighed out, a person who reduces the amount of the dough in any dough so weighed out commits an offence against this Act.

(3)

It shall be an offence against this Act to sell or expose for sale any bread or pastry under the name of milk bread, or under any name or description calculated to deceive the purchaser into believing that the same is milk bread, or to make any mark or lettering on the bread or pastry that resembles any mark or lettering used to denote milk bread, if the product so sold or exposed for sale is not milk bread as

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defined in section three of this Act and baked in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(4) Any person who weighs out or causes to be weighed out dough in quantities less than the quantities stipulated in subsection (1) of this section shall be liable to a fine of two shillings and sixpence for every ounce or part of an ounce in respect of which the dough weight so weighed out is less than that specified in that subsection; and notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act to the contrary, such fine shall be fixed and irreducible.

8.    The principal Act is amended by adding after 2agik

section six, the following section-

6A. No person shall bake for sale, or sell or l'Al=fd

offer or expose for sale, any loaf of bread tter t e

(including Vienna bread) of any class or iegstztd.

denomination or description, the weight of p

which is less than the weight of the total dry

matter prescribed for a loaf of that class,

denomination or description.

Penalty: Not less than ten pounds or more than twenty-five pounds for a first offence, and not less than twenty-five pounds or more than one hundred pounds for each subsequent offence.

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9. Section twelve A of the principal Act is amended.

amended by adding at the end thereof the following

passage

Penalty: Not less than ten pounds or more

than fifty pounds.

10.   Section twenty-five of the principal Act is =ed.

amended by substituting for the passage, "regulations prescribing the method of taking a poll

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for the purpose of section fourteen of this Act." in

lines seven, eight and nine, the following passage

regulations

(a)	prescribing the method of taking a poll for the purpose of section fourteen of this Act;
(b)	prescribing the formula to be used to make bread that is dietetic bread;
(c)	prescribing the standard in conformity with which bread must be made in order to be milk bread under this Act;
(d)	prescribing the total dry matter content of a loaf of bread of any of the classes, denominations and descriptions referred to in this Act; and the methods of sampling, testing, ascer- taining and assessing the total dry matter content of any bread; and
(e)	prescribing the nature of the wrapper to be used for enclosing dietetic bread, and the particulars and information as to the ingredients and dietetic value of such bread to be marked on such wrapper and the manner of marking.