Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 73.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fourteenth day of May, 1924.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AUSTIN CHAPMAN,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations 1921.

(Statutory Rules 1921, No. 226, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 7 of the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations 1921 is hereby repealed and the following inserted in its stead:—

“7. The trade description to be applied in accordance with these regulations shall comply with the following provisions:—

(a) It shall be in the form of a principal label or brand affixed in a conspicuous and reasonably permanent manner in a prominent position to the goods or to the coverings containing the goods;

(b) (i) It shall contain in prominent and legible characters a true description of the goods, and the word ‘Australia’*;

(ii) The trade description shall be in the English language:

Provided that the Minister may, if he thinks fit, permit the whole or portion of such trade description to appear in a foreign language;

(c) It shall include any one, and may include all, of the following particulars, namely:—

(1) The name of the manufacturer or producer or exporter;

(2) The registered brand of the manufacturer or producer or exporter:

 

*Note.—The trade description may include the name of the State in which the goods were made or produced.

C.5740.—Price 3d.

 

Provided that the Minister may permit, subject to compliance with any conditions deemed necessary, the registered brand of the consignee in lieu of the registered brand of the manufacturer, producer or exporter to appear in the trade description:

Provided also that in any case, where the manufacturer is not the exporter, the trade description shall include the manufacturer’s name or registered brand unless the exporter sets forth in the notice of intention to export the name and address of the manufacturer; and

(d) The label or brand shall specify the net weight or quantity of the goods:

Provided that in the case of tinned butter, if the statement of net weight appears on the cases, marking on the tins will not be required:

Provided also that in the case of cheese a variation between the marked and the actual weights respectively to the extent, as regards crates marked as containing 160 lbs. net, of four pounds, and as regards marked weights greater or less than 160 lbs., in like proportions, shall not be deemed to be a false trade description in respect of weight.”

 

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