Exports (Meat) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1967 No. 113.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1967 AND THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1966.*

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 1901-1967 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1966.

Dated this eighteenth day of August, 1967.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for the Interior Acting for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Primary Industry and for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

 

Amendments of the Export (Meat) Regulations 

Obligations of persons engaged at an export establishment.

1. Regulation 61 of the Export (Meat) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.).

2. After regulation 61 of the Export (Meat) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Clothing of Employees.

“61a.—(1.) This regulation applies to a person who is an employee of a registered establishment and works in rooms or areas in which the slaughtering and dressing of animals for export is performed or meat, meat products or edible offal intended for export are prepared, packed or stored.

“(2.) A person to whom this regulation applies—

(a) shall not commence work at the registered establishment on any day unless he is wearing clean outer clothes made of material which is capable of being effectively cleaned and the fibres of which are not likely to cause contamination of carcasses or of meat and shall, subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, continue to wear those outer clothes while working on that day at the registered establishment;

(b) shall wear, while working at the registered establishment, a clean covering over his head so fitted that it will prevent his hair contaminating the carcasses or meat, being a covering made of material that is capable of being effectively cleaned and the fibres of which are not likely to cause contamination of carcasses or of meat;

(c) shall not wear outer clothes made of hessian except when he is handling, in a room in which meat is kept under refrigeration, meat that is contained in a wrapping; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1967.

  Statutory Rules 1961, No.93 as amended by Statutory Rules 1963, No. 143; 1965, No. 40; and 1966, No. 53.

4475/67.—Price 5c 9/13.7.1967

 

(d)shall cause to be kept in a dressing room at the establishment any of his clothing which is at the establishment but is not being worn.

“(3.) Where a person to whom this regulation applies is informed by the officer in charge that the condition of the outer clothes or of the head covering of that person is such as is likely to cause contamination of carcasses or of meat, the person shall remove his outer clothes or head covering and replace them with clean outer clothes or a head covering complying with paragraph (a) or (b), as the case requires, of the last preceding sub-regulation.

“(4.) A person to whom this paragraph applies shall not use a scabbard or other sheath—

(a) unless it is made of materials which are impervious and are resistant to rust;

(b) unless it is made of materials which are capable of being cleaned with ease and capable of being made sterile with ease; and

(c) unless it is clean.

Penalty: One hundred dollars.”.

The Second Schedule.

3. The Second Schedule to the Export (Meat) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (2.) of paragraph 26 the word “Edible” and inserting in its stead the words “Subject to sub-paragraph (2e.) of this paragraph, edible”;

(b) by inserting after sub-paragraph (2.) of paragraph 26 the following sub-paragraphs:—

“(2a.) Any treatment of edible offal other than packaging or freezing shall be an approved treatment.

“(2b.) Edible offal which is to be treated shall, as soon as possible after it is removed from the carcass, be placed under refrigeration and reduced to a temperature of 40 degrees Farhenheit and maintained at that temperature until it is treated.

“(2c.) The treatment of edible offal shall be carried out in a room or rooms the temperature of which is at all times maintained by mechanical means at not more than 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

“(2d.) Edible offal that has been treated shall be placed without delay under refrigeration for freezing.

“(2e.) Edible offal may be treated at an export establishment other than the export establishment in which the offal was removed from the carcass if it has been removed only once to another export establishment and it has been transferred to that other export establishment in approved closed containers and, subject to the next succeeding paragraph, in an approved insulated vehicle.

“(2f.) Edible offal shall not be treated as edible offal for export at an export establishment other than the export establishment at which it was removed from the carcass unless, If the period taken to transport it from the export establishment in which it was removed from the carcass to the other export establishment exceeded two hours, the edible offal was transported under refrigeration during the whole of that period.”; and

(c) by inserting in sub-paragraph (3.) of paragraph 26, after the word “offal”, the words “, other than treated offal,”.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.