Commerce Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 195.

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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 Regulation No. 35 under the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905 to come into immediate operation, and the following Amendment to the First Schedule standards of the Commerce Regulations 1913 to come into operation on and from the 1st December, 1916.

Dated this twenty-third day of August, 1916.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General,

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister of State for TRADE and Customs.

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Amendment or the Commerce Regulations 1913

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 347).

1. Regulation 35 of the Commerce Regulations 1913 is hereby repealed, and the following Regulation substituted in its stead:—

“Grading of Butter and Cheese,

“35. In case of such written request by the exporter, the officer shall grade butter as follows:—

Superfine.—Pure creamery butter, graded at 95 to 100 points.

First Grade.—Pure creamery butter, graded at 90 to 94 points.

Second Grade.—Pure butter, graded at 85 to 89 points.

Third Grade.—Pure butter, graded at 80 to 84 points.

Pastry Butter,—Pure butter graded at less than 80 points.”

2. The First Schedule standards of the Commerce Regulations (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 347) are hereby amended in respect to the standard for Condensed Milk by the cancellation of the words “when containing such sugar, it shall also contain not less than 9 per cent. of butter fat” and the substitution therefor of the words “whom containing such sugar, it shall also contain not less than 8.5 per cent. of butter fat”.

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