Commerce (General Exports) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1934. No. 2.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1930 AND THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1933.

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 Customs Act 1901-1930 and the Commerce(Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1933.

Dated this tenth day of January, 1934.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRED. H. STEWART,

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

 

Amendment of Commerce (General Exports) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 22, as amended to this date.)

Fresh apples and pears—grades, quality, size, colour, blemishes &c.

Regulation 48 of the Commerce (General Exports) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) the words “—whether described as ‘Special’, ‘Standard’, or ‘Plain’—” and

(b) by omitting paragraph (d)and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(d) Pears described as ‘Plain’ shall consist of pears of one size and one variety, free from broken skins, and not seriously blemished or injured by any disease, but pears slightly blemished by black spot fungus, caterpillars, hallmarks or limb rubs, may be exported provided that the total area covered by such blemishes on any one of such pears does not exceed the area contained in a circle having a diameter of one-quarter of an inch. Russeting of the surface shall not be deemed to be a blemish if the skin is unbroken. The diameter of each of the pears shall not be less than two inches.”.

 

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

404.—Price 3d.