Exports (Dairy Produce) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 201

REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901 AND THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 19051

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Customs Act 1901 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905.

Dated this seventeenth day of July 1980.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER NIXON

Minister of State for Primary Industry

and for and on behalf of

the Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs

AMENDMENTS OF THE EXPORTS (DAIRY PRODUCE) REGULATIONS2

Second Schedule

  The Second Schedule to the Exports (Dairy Produce) Regulations is amended —

• (a)

  by omitting from paragraph 1 in the second column of item 5 “Cheese” and substituting “Except as otherwise specified in a succeeding paragraph of this item, cheese”;

• (b)

  by adding at the end of paragraph 8 in the second column of that item “It may contain not more than 0.3 parts per centum of sorbic acid.”;

• (c)

  by adding at the end of paragraph 9 in the second column of that item “It may contain not more than 0.3 parts per centum of sorbic acid.”;

• (d)

  by omitting from paragraph 12 in the second column of that item “It may contain not more than 2 grains of sulphur dioxide for each pound of cheese.” and substituting “It may contain —

  • (a)

    not more than 0.03 parts per centum of sulphur dioxide;

  • (b)

    not more than 0.2 parts per centum of sorbic acid; or

  • (c)

    both sulphur dioxide and sorbic acid where the amounts of sulphur dioxide and sorbic acid in the cheese are such that the sum of the fractions obtained by dividing the number of parts per centum of sulphur dioxide present in the cheese by 0.03 and the number of parts per centum of sorbic acid present in the cheese by 0.2 does not exceed 1.”;

• (e)

  by adding at the end of paragraph 15 in the second column of that item “Australian Processed Cheddar Cheese in sliced form may contain not more than 0.2 parts per centum of sorbic acid.”;

• (f)

  by adding at the end of paragraph 16 in the second column of that item “It may contain not more than 0.3 parts per centum of sorbic acid.”;

• (g)

  by adding at the end of paragraph 20 in the second column of that item “Australian Processed Gruyere Cheese in sliced form may contain not more than 0.2 parts per centum of sorbic acid.”; and

• (h)

  by adding at the end of the third column of that item the following paragraph:

• “7.

  Where cheese contains sorbic acid or sulphur dioxide, the trade description of the cheese shall include the words ‘preservative added’ in prominent and legible characters.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 July 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1962 No. 36 as amended by Statutory Rules 1963 No. 137; 1965 Nos. 45 and 54; 1966 No. 46; 1969 No. 30; 1974 No. 219; 1976 No. 122; 1977 No. 256; 1978 Nos. 45 and 283; 1980 No. 122.