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

STATUTORY RULES.

1936. No. 149.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905–1933 AND THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901–1935.*

I, THE DEPUTY OF 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 1905–1933, and the Customs Act 1901–1935.

Dated this twenty eighth

day of October, 1936.

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for Minister of State for Commerce and for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendments of the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations. 

Interpretation.

1. In these Regulations, any reference to a regulation shall be read as a reference to a regulation contained in the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations, as amended to the date of commencement of these Regulations.

Butter boxes.

2. Regulation 8a is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “Boxes in which butter is packed for export shall, subject to sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation, be of the type known as the wirebound butter box, and shall” and inserting in their stead the words “Subject to sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation, the export of butter is prohibited unless the butter is packed in boxes which are of the type known as the wirebound butter box and”.

Preparation, inspection and packing of eggs in shell.

3. Regulation 13 is amended by inserting in paragraph (i), after the word “packed”, the words “, large end uppermost,”.

Additional description for butter.

4. Regulation 18 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (f) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(f) In the case of butter (other than milled butter and butter in tins) the trade description shall include the following marks:—

(i) figures representing the number of the vat;

(ii) figures representing the number of the churn;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1936.

  Statutory Rules 1930, No. 132, as amended by Statutory Rules 1931, Nos. 82, 106 and 125; 1932, No. 77; 1933, Nos. 38 and 40; 1934, Nos. 6, 56 and 98; 1935, Nos. 65 and 132; and 1936, Nos. 66 and 85.

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(iii) figures indicating the number of boxes in the churning; and

(iv) figures representing the day of the month and the month on which the butter was churned.

The marks shall be applied in violet coloured ink to the left-hand top corner of the ends of the boxes bearing the trade description, by means of rubber stamps, in figures ½ inch high by 1/16 inch thick. The marks referred to in paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of this sub-regulation shall be in one line and shall be applied in the following order:—

(1) the number of the vat;

(2) the number of the churn;

(3) the number of boxes in the churning.

The marks referred to in paragraph (iv) of this sub-regulation shall be applied immediately below the line containing the other marks.”.

Additional description for cheese.

5. Regulation 19 is amended—

(a)by omitting from paragraph (i) the figures “¼” and inserting in their stead the figures “1/16”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (iv) the figures “¼” and inserting in their stead the figures “⅛”.

6. Regulation 24 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Additional description for eggs in shell.

“24.—(1.) In the case of eggs in shell, the trade description shall be applied to both ends of the case, and shall include the number of the packer and figures indicating the date of packing.

(2.) The number of the packer shall be stamped on the left-hand lower corner of the branded ends in indelible violet coloured ink by means of a rubber stamp, and figures representing the day of the month and the month of packing shall be stamped in indelible violet coloured ink by means of a rubber stamp on the right-hand lower corner of the branded ends without spacing between them. The figures shall be ½ inch high and 1/16 inch wide.

(3.) The word ‘Australia’ shall be legibly branded on the large end of each egg, in indelible violet coloured ink, by means of a rubber stamp. The word shall be in a straight line, in sans serif capital letters of eight point full face measurement (condensed type) and shall be enclosed in an oval measuring 11/16 inch long by ½ inch wide.”.

 

By Authority: L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.