STATUTORY
RULES.
1951. No. 47.
REGULATION UNDER THE
CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1950 AND THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1950.*
WHEREAS by section 112
of the Customs Act 1901-1950 it is provided that the Governor-General
may, by regulation, prohibit the exportation of any goods—
(a) the exportation of which would, in his
opinion, be harmful to the Commonwealth; or
(b) which have not been
prepared or manufactured for export under the prescribed conditions as to
purity, soundness, or freedom from disease, or which do not conform to the
prescribed conditions as to purity, soundness, or freedom from disease :
And
whereas it is provided by the said section that the said power of prohibition
shall extend to authorize the prohibition of the exportation of goods
generally, or to any specified place, and either absolutely or so as to allow
of the exportation of the goods subject to any condition or restriction :
And
whereas I am of opinion that the exportation of the goods specified in the
first column of the First Schedule to the Exports (General) Regulations, except
subject to the conditions and restrictions prescribed by those Regulations, as
amended by the following Regulation, would be harmful to the Commonwealth :
Now
therefore 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 1901-1950 and the Commerce
(Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1950.
Dated this Fifteenth
day
of June ,
1951.
W.J. McKell
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.
Amendment
of the Exports (General) Regulations.
First
Schedule.
The First Schedule to
the Exports (General) Regulations is
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,
1951.
Statutory Rules 1937, No. 68, as
amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 286 : 1943, No. 192 ; 1944, No. 139 ;
1948, Nos. 11, 28 and 166 : 1949, No. 53 ; and 1950, No. 36.
775.—Price
3d. 9/11.4.1951.
amended by inserting
after Item 3 the following item :—
3a. Fruit Mincemeat | 1. The ingredients used in the manufacture of fruit mincemeat
shall be approved by an officer
| The trade description shall include the words “ Fruit Mincemeat ” or the word “ Mincemeat ” in which latter case a
list of ingredients set forth in the order corresponding to the proportions
in which they are present shall appear on the label
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2. The dried fruits used shall have been packed in premises
registered under the Exports (Dried Fruits) Regulations
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3. Where animal fats are used they shall have been prepared in
premises registered under the Commerce (Meat Export) Regulations
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4. A label shall not be applied to containers of fruit mincemeat
unless its design, nature and dimensions have been approved by the Secretary
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5. The immediate containers shall be clean and strongly and
efficiently constructed
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6. The immediate containers shall be enclosed in cases or other
outside containers of a type approved by the Secretary
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7. If the cases are constructed of soft wood or hard wood they
shall be clean and new, and the wood of which they are constructed shall be
smoothly sawn or dressed in a manner approved by the Secretary. The cases
shall be strapped with metal strapping or wire and shall, in the opinion of
the Secretary, be sufficiently strong to withstand such handling as is
ordinarily incidental to transport to destinations beyond the Commonwealth
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8. If the outside containers are constructed of fibre board, each
side shall consist of one piece of solid fibre board of not less than 100
point thickness constructed with outer face of .016, 100 lb. Mullen test. The
fibre board shall be coloured and made waterproof and the combined board
shall have a Mullen test of not less than 275 lb. per square inch. The side
flaps shall be securely riveted with coppered flat wire and the containers shall,
if so required by the Secretary, be strapped with metal strapping or wire
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By Authority : L. F. Johnston,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.