Exports (Meat) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 392

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 twenty-second day of December 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 (Meat) Regulations2

Second Schedule

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

• (a)

  by omitting from sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 3 “cattle” and “stunned” and substituting “cattle, calves” and “rendered unconscious” respectively;

• (b)

  by omitting from sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 3 “pigs” and “stunned” and substituting “pigs, sheep, lambs or goats” and “rendered unconscious” respectively;

• (c)

  by omitting sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) of paragraph 3 and substituting the following sub-paragraph:

  • “(3)

    Where, for the purpose of complying with the requirements of the Jewish faith or the Islamic faith, the animal from which the meat was obtained was bled without first being rendered unconscious, this paragraph does not apply to or in relation to the meat unless there was a failure to comply with a direction given by the veterinary officer-in-charge designed to eliminate undue suffering by the animal.”; and

• (d)

  by omitting from paragraph 3A “stunned” and substituting “rendered unconscious”.

Notes

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 December 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1961 No. 93 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1980 No. 134 and see also