Commerce Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 47.

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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 on and from the 1st June, 1917.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of February, 1917.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. A. JENSEN,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of the Commerce Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 347.)

1. Regulation 8 is hereby amended by inserting therein, after paragraph (d), the following paragraph: —

“(da)In the case of pepper berries (Piper Nigrum, L.), the trade description shall specify whether they are white or black.”

2. The standards set out in the First Schedule are hereby amended by the addition of the following: —

“Black Pepper”: Black pepper is the dried immature berry of Piper Nigrum, L.; it shall contain—

(a) no foreign substance;

(b) not more than

(1) 5 per cent. white berries,

(2) 15 per cent. of waste material,

(3) 7 per cent. of total ash;

(c)not less than

(1) 6 per cent. of extract soluble in ether, and

(2) 8 per cent. of extract soluble in ethylic alcohol.

“White Pepper”: White pepper is the dried more or less mature berry of Piper Nigrum, L.; it shall contain—

(a) no foreign substance;

(b) not more than

(1) 5 per cent. black berries,

(2) 7 per cent. of immature berries,

(3) 3.5 per cent. of ash;

(c) not less than

(1) 6 per cent. of extract soluble in ether, and

(2) 7 per cent. of extract soluble in ethylic alcohol.

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