Exports (Meat) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 300

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 twelfth day of October 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

Third Schedule

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

• (a)

  by inserting after Item 23 the following item:

“23A.	Grain fed beef—first quality hindquarter, forequarter or crop	A hindquarter, forequarter or crop shall be derived from the carcass of a steer or heifer that has been fed for not less than 100 days on a nutritionally balanced high energy feed concentrate ration containing not less than 70 per cent grain at an average feeding rate of not less than 9 kilograms of that feed concentrate ration per day, being a carcass— (a) the mass of which when dressed is not less than 270 kilograms and not more than 390 kilograms;	1. The trade description shall include the words ‘grain fed beef’ on the tags and on the coverings
(b) that has some evidence of ossification of the cartilages on the ends of the thoracic vertebrae; (c) that has a fat cover that is not less than 10 millimetres and not more than 23 millimetres thick when measured over the rib eye muscle at the quartered surface between the tenth and thirteenth ribs; (d) that has white fat; and (e) that has a rib eye muscle that is modestly marbled, bright cherry red in colour, and is not less than 56 square centimetres in area at the quartered surface between the tenth and thirteenth ribs	”; and

• (b)

  by inserting after Item 26A the following items:

“26B.	Piece yearling beef—first quality	1. First quality piece yearling beef shall be derived from a first quality hindquarter or a first quality crop of yearling beef. 2. Piece yearling beef shall consist of pieces recognized in commerce as cuts of piece yearling beef, and may be bone-in or boneless.	1. The trade description shall include— (a) the words ‘yearling beef’ on the tags and on the coverings; and (b) the cut and number of pieces contained in the package on the coverings
“26C.	Piece baby beef—first quality	1. First quality piece baby beef shall be derived from a first quality hindquarter or a first quality crop of baby beef. 2. Piece baby beef shall consist of pieces recognized in commerce as cuts of piece baby beef, and may be bone-in or boneless.	1. The trade description shall include— (a) the words ‘baby beef’ on the tags and on the coverings; and (b) the cut and number of pieces contained in the package on the coverings
“26D.	Piece baby beef—second quality	1. Second quality piece baby beef shall be derived from a second quality hindquarter or a second quality crop of baby beef. 2. Piece baby beef shall consist of pieces recognized in commerce as cuts of piece baby beef, and may be bone-in or boneless.	1. The trade description shall include— (a) the words ‘baby beef’ on the tags and on the coverings; and (b) the cut and number of pieces contained in the package on the coverings
“26E.	Piece grain fed beef—first quality	1. First quality piece grain fed beef shall be derived from a first quality hindquarter or first quality crop of grain fed steer beef or grain fed heifer beef. 2. Piece grain fed beef shall consist of pieces recognized in commerce as cuts or piece grain fed beef, and may be bone-in or boneless.	1. The trade description shall include- (a) the words ‘grain fed steer beef’ or ‘grain fed heifer beef’, as the case requires, on the tags and on the coverings; and (b) the cut and number of pieces contained in the package on the coverings”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 17 October 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