Exports (Fish) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1955. No. 51.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1954 AND

THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1950.*

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 Customs Act 1901-1954 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1950.

Dated this  nineteenth

day of  July , 1955.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

(Sgd) J. McEwen

Minister of (State for Commerce and Agriculture and for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

Amendments of the Exports (Fish) Regulations.

1. After regulation 9 of the Exports (Fish) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Serial number or code mark on containers.

"9a.—(1.) A person who, during a year, exports fish of a kind described in item 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 of the First Schedule shall allot to each container containing the fish—

(a) a serial number, being one of a series of consecutive numbers commencing from one in that year; or

(b) where the person has lodged with the Secretary, under the next succeeding sub-regulation, a code of marks in accordance with which he proposes to identify containers containing fish of that kind exported by him during that year—a code mark in accordance with the code.

"(2.) Where a person proposes to export fish during a year, being fish of a kind described in item 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 of the First Schedule, that person may, before he exports fish of that kind during that year, lodge with the Secretary a code of marks satisfactory to the Secretary, in accordance with which he proposes to identify containers containing fish of that kind exported by him during that year.

"(3.) In this regulation, 'year' means a period of one year commencing on the first day of July in any year.".

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1955

  Statutory Rules 1949, No. 54, as amended by Statutory Rules 1950. No. 38; 1951, Nos. 48 and 127; 1952, No. 105; and 1954. No. 43.

3068/55.—Price 3d.  9/16.6.1955.

The First Schedule.

2. The First Schedule to the Exports (Fish) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the table m paragraph 4 in the second column of item 1 and inserting in its stead the following table:—

"Grade.	Net weight of each crayfish tail.
Midget..............................	Less than 6 ounces.
Small (S) ..........................	Not less than 6 ounces and less than 8 ounces.
Medium (M).....................	Not less than 8 ounces and less than 12 ounces.
Large (L)...........................	Not less than 12 ounces and not more than 16 ounces.
Jumbo (J)..........................	Over 16 ounces.": and

(b) by omitting from the third column of items 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 the words "the serial number of the container running consecutively from the beginning of each calendar year" and inserting in their stead the words" the serial number or code marks: allotted to the container in accordance with sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 9a of these regulations".

Printed for the Government of the Commonwealth by A. J. Arthur

at the Government Printing Office, Canberra.