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

STATUTORY RULES.

1923. No. 112.

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 Regulations under the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-second day of August, 1923.

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 Regulation 9 of the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations 1921, is repealed and the following inserted in its stead:—

“9. The exportation of all goods of the classes enumerated in regulation 6, which are in an inferior, unsound, or abnormal condition, or which do not comply with the standards prescribed, therefor in the First Schedule, is prohibited, unless the trade description applied to the goods includes in bold and legible characters the words ‘Inferior,’ ‘Unsound,’ or ‘Below Standard,’ as the case requires, and in addition, in the case of goods which do not comply with the standards applicable thereto, unless the trade descriptions state fully the matters in which, and the extent to which, the goods do not comply with those standards:

Provided that this regulation shall not apply to—

(a) Condensed milk containing not less than 7.8 per cent. of butter fat (but otherwise normal) and exported for consumption in any part of South Africa, China, Japan, Philippine Islands or other parts adjacent thereto, except Singapore and the Straits Settlements, to the east of the 90th meridian of east longitude; and

(b) Butter containing not less than 80 per cent. of butter fat (but otherwise normal) and exported for consumption in any country in which the prescribed butter fat standard for butter is below 82 per cent.”

C.13274.—Price 3d.

 

2. Regulation 43, of the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations 1921, is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) thereof the fees prescribed for Butter, Cheese, and Cheese in tins, and inserting in their stead the following fees:—

Butter, per box.....................................................................................................	1½d.
Cheese, per crate containing 160 lbs. or under.......................................................	1½d.

If the net weight of cheese contained in a single crate is in excess of 160 lbs., by not more than 6 lbs., no fee shall be charged for the excess in weight. If the excess is more than 6 lbs., an additional fee of 1½d. shall be charged.

When four cheeses are contained in one crate, the fee shall be 2½d. per crate.

When cheeses of varying dates are packed in the same crate, the fee shall be 2½d. per crate.

Cheese, in tins, per package, containing 48 lbs. net or under of cheese.................... 1½d.

If the net weight of cheese contained in a single package is in excess of 48 lbs., by not more than 8 lbs., no fee shall be charged for the excess in weight. If the excess is more than 8 lbs., an additional fee of 1½d. shall be charged.

3. The First Schedule to the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations 1921, is amended by inserting in the standard for Margarine after the words “not more than 16 parts per cent. of water” the words “not more than 0.5 parts per cent. of Boric Acid”.

 

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