STATUTORY RULES.
1954.
No. 91
REGULATIONS UNDER THE
CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1953 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 1901-1953 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1950.
Dated this eighteenth
day of August , 1954.
W. J. Slim
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
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 (General) Regulations.
Requirements as to trade description.
1.
Regulation 10 of the Exports (General) Regulations is amended by inserting in
paragraph (e) of sub-regulation
(1.), after the word “plants”, the words “, dried field peas and horse or tick
beans”.
Second Schedule.
2.
The Second Schedule to the Exports (General) Regulations is amended—
(a)
by inserting after item 1 the following item:—
“1a. Dried
Field Peas
| 1. The peas shall have been machine cleaned 2. The peas shall be hard well-filled peas of
characteristic colour for the variety 3. The peas shall be of a size that will not pass
through a three-sixteenth of an inch round riddle 4. The peas shall not contain more than two per
centum by weight of sprouted, grub-eaten and otherwise damaged peas and
foreign matter, and shall otherwise be free from disease 5. The peas shall conform to a grain standard
approved by the Secretary for the variety
| 1. The trade description shall include a statement
of the year in which the peas were harvested 2. For the purposes of the statement referred to in
the last preceding paragraph, peas harvested in December in any year shall be
deemed to be included in the crop of the next succeeding year. 3. The trade description shall not include the name
of a variety of field peas unless the peas contain not less than 90 per
centum by weight of that variety
4. The trade description shall include the
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*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,
1954.
Statutory Rules 1954, No. 1, as amended by Statutory Rules 1954, No. 42.
723.—Price 3d. 9/22.6.1954.
6. The peas shall be packed in new bags, unless the
Secretary permits the use of other containers
| word ‘mixed’ in conjunction with the name of the
variety if the peas contain more than 90 per centum by weight of the variety
but less than—
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(a) in
the case of blue field peas, maple field peas or grey field peas —99 per
centum by weight of the variety; or
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(b) in
any other case—97 per centum by weight of the variety”;
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(b) by inserting after item 4 the following item:—
“4a. Horse
or Tick Beans
| 1. The
beans shall be graded into either of two grades, ‘Machine Cleaned’ or ‘Farm
Cleaned’
| 1. The trade description shall include a statement
of the year in which the beans were harvested
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2. The beans shall be hard, well-filled beans of
characteristic colour for the variety
| 2. The trade description shall include the words
‘Machine Cleaned’ or ‘Farm Cleaned’, as the case may be”; and
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3. The beans shall be of a size that will not pass
through a one-quarter of an inch round riddle
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4. The beans shall not contain more than—
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(a) in the case of ‘Machine Cleaned’ beans — two per centum; and
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(b) in the case of ‘Farm Cleaned’ beans— five per centum,
by weight of foreign matter, foreign varieties of
beans and sprouted, grub-eaten or otherwise damaged beans, and shall be
otherwise free from disease
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6. The beans shall be packed in new bags, unless
the Secretary permits the use of other containers
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(c) by inserting
in item 9 in the first column, after the word “preserved”, the words “other
than dried field peas and horse or tick beans”.
By
Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.