Commerce Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1916. No. 103.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905.

I, SIR ARTHUR STANLEY, Governor of the State of Victoria and its Dependencies, in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting as the Deputy of the Governor-General in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations, except as to Regulation 8(b) and (h), which shall come into operation on and from the first day of September, 1916.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

A. L. STANLEY,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Commerce Regulations 1913.

Regulation 3 of the Commerce Regulations 1913 (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 347) is hereby amended by the addition of the following:—

“Infants’ Food means any food described or sold as an article of food suitable for infants.”

Regulation 8(b) is hereby repealed as from 1st September, 1916, and the following Regulation substituted in its stead:—

“8(b). In the case of infants’ food, which, when prepared as directed by any statement or statements in the trade description applied thereto—

(1) does not conform approximately in proportional composition to human milk, in regard to fat, proteins and sugars, or contains starch in excess of 1 per cent., there shall be written the words ‘This food should not be given to infants under the age of six months, except under medical direction,’ in bold sans-serif capital letters of not less than six points face measurement. The said words shall be the first words on the label and no other words shall be written on the same line or lines;

(2) contains starch in a proportion not exceeding 1 per cent., but otherwise conforms approximately in proportional composition to human milk in regard to fat, proteins and sugars, there shall be written the words ‘This food should not be given to infants under the age of one month except under medical direction,’ in bold sans-serif capital letters of not less than six points face measurement. The said words shall be the first words on the label, and no other words shall be written on the same line or lines.”

C. 5792.—Price 3d.

 

Regulation 8(h) ishereby amended by adding thereto, in the third line, after the words “articles are made,” the words “and shall, wherever practicable, be applied by means of indelible stamping.”

First schedule standards of the Commerce Regulations 1913 (Statutory Rules, 1913, No. 347) are hereby amended by the addition of the following:—

“Infants’ Food”; Infants’ Food shall not contain any woody fibre, nor any mineral substance which is insoluble in acid, nor any preservative substance.

 

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