STATUTORY RULES
1968 No.
REGULATION
UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1968.*
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 1901-1968.
Dated this fourteenth day of November,
1968.
CASEY
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s
Command,
Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
Amendment of the Customs (Prohibited Imports)
Regulations
Third
Schedule—Item 6.
The Third Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited
Imports) Regulations is amended by omitting item 6 and inserting in its stead
the following item:—
“ 6 | Clinical thermometers.......... | 1. A thermometer shall be
marked with the name of the country in which it was manufactured.
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2. A thermometer shall
bear the monogram of the National Physical Laboratory of Great Britain or be
a thermometer—
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(a) that is free from flaws and constructional defects;
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(b)that is marked in degrees and fractions of a degree
that show a range of—
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(i) from 35° Centigrade to 42°
Centigrade, both inclusive, or from 95° Fahrenheit to 108° Fahrenheit, both
inclusive (in this item referred to as an ‘ ordinary range thermometer ’); or
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(ii) from 25° Centigrade to 40°
Centigrade, both inclusive, or from 77° Fahrenheit to 104° Fahrenheit, both inclusive (in this item, referred to as a ‘sub-normal range thermometer ’);
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(c) that is so marked that the markings representing one
degree of temperature are different marks from the marks showing the
fractions of a degree;
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(d)that is so marked that the markings representing
each degree are of the same length and the markings representing each
fraction of a degree are of the same length;
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(e) that, in the case of an ordinary range thermometer
marked in degrees Centigrade, when submitted to a test for accuracy by being
maintained at several of the temperatures within the range of temperatures
marked on the thermometer for not less than three minutes at each of the
temperatures selected and, after being so maintained at each of those
temperatures for that period, by cooling to a temperature of 20° Centigrade, shows a
reading at each of those temperatures that does not vary by more than 0.15°
Centigrade from the temperature at which the thermometer was so maintained;
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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1968.
Statutory Rules 1956, No. 90, as amended by
Statutory Rules 1958, Nos. 6 and 67; 1959, Nos. 17, 31 and 93; 1960,
No. 22; 1961, No. 117; 1962, No. 82; 1963, No. 26; 1964, Nos. 25 and 39; 1965, Nos.
81,
91, 135, 167 and 190; 1966, No. 95; and 1967, Nos, 41, 58, 114 and 178.
17771/68—Price
5c 10/18.9.1968
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“ 6 | Clinical thermometers— continued | (f) that, in the case of
an ordinary range thermometer marked in degrees Fahrenheit, when submitted to
a test for accuracy by being maintained at several of the temperatures within
the range of temperatures marked on the thermometer for not less than three
minutes at each of the temperatures selected and, after being so maintained
at each of those temperatures for that period, by cooling to a
temperature of 68° Fahrenheit, shows a leading at each of those temperatures that
does not vary by more than 0.30° Fahrenheit from the temperature at which the
thermometer was so maintained;
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(g) that, in the case of a sub-normal range thermometer
marked in degrees Centigrade, when submitted to a test for accuracy by being
maintained at several of the temperatures within the range of temperatures marked on the thermometer for
not less than three minutes at each of the temperatures selected and, after
being so maintained at each of those temperatures for that period, by cooling
to a temperature of 20° Centigrade, shows a leading at each
of those temperatures that does not vary by
more than 0.45° Centigrade from the temperature at which the thermometer was so maintained; and
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(h) that, in the case of a
sub-normal range thermometer marked m degrees
Fahrenheit, when submitted to a test for accuracy being maintained at several
of the temperatures
within the range of temperatures marked
on the thermometer for not less than three minutes at each of the
temperatures selected and, after being so maintained at each of those
temperatures for that period, by cooling to a temperature of 68° Fahrenheit, shows a
reading at each of those temperatures
that does not vary by more than 0.80° Fahrenheit from the temperature at
which the thermometer was so maintained.”.
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By
Authority: A. J. Arthur,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra