Commerce Regulations 1910 (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1913. No. 15.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION 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 certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this sixteenth day of January, 1913.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister for Trade and Customs.

  

Regulation 8 (b) of the Commerce Regulations 1910 (Statutory Rules 1910, No. 120) is hereby cancelled, and the following Regulation substituted in its stead:—

8. In the case of the following goods, the trade description shall, in addition, comply with the following provisions:—

(b) In the case of foods for infants, if any such food when prepared as directed by any accompanying statement or label—

(1) does not conform approximately in proportional composition to human milk, the trade description of the food shall include, in bold-faced Sans-Seriff capital type, conspicuously displayed, the words “This food is ordinarily unsuitable for infants under the age of six months, and is not to be given to such infants except under medical direction”;

(2) contains starch in a proportion not exceeding 1 per cent., but otherwise conforms approximately in proportional composition to human milk, the trade description of the food shall include, in bold-faced Sans-seriff capital type, conspicuously displayed, the words “This food is not to be given to infants under the age of one month except under medical direction.”

 

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