Exports (Meat) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 293

REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Customs Act 1901 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905.

Dated this first 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

Inspection of meat

 1. Regulation 33 of the Exports (Meat) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (4) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

• “(4)

  Where meat is stamped with an inspection stamp, the stamp shall —

  • (a)

    in the case of meat other than lamb—be in accordance with the design contained in Part I of the Ninth Schedule; and

  • (b)

    in the case of lamb—be in accordance with the design contained in Part II of the Ninth Schedule.”.

Second Schedule

 2. The Second Schedule to the Exports (Meat) Regulations is amended by inserting after paragraph 15 in Part I the following paragraph:

Stamping of lamb

• “15A.

  Lamb shall not bear a brand or stamp indicating that it is lamb other than an inspection stamp of the kind referred to in sub-regulation 33 (4).”.

Third Schedule

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

• (a)

  by omitting items 37 to 41 (inclusive);

• (b)

  by omitting from items 42, 43 and 43AA in the second column “summer”; and

• (c)

  by omitting from items 54, 55 and 55A in the second column “, down type lamb or summer lamb”.

Ninth Schedule

 4. The Ninth Schedule to the Exports (Meat) Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

NINTH SCHEDULERegulation 33

PART I—DESIGN OF INSPECTION STAMP FOR

MEAT OTHER THAN LAMB

(Design Omitted)

 The design shall be completed by the insertion in the space marked A of the number allotted to the export establishment in pursuance of regulation 24.

PART II—DESIGN OF INSPECTION STAMP FOR LAMB

(Design Omitted)

 The design shall be completed by the insertion in the space marked A of the number allotted to the export establishment in pursuance of regulation 24.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 October 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1961 No. 93 as amended by Statutory Rules 1963 No. 143; 1965 No. 40; 1966 No. 53; 1967 No. 113; 1969 No. 37; 1971 No. 107; 1972 No. 8; 1976 Nos. 69, 252, 253 and 254; 1977 Nos. 28, 45 and 61; 1978 Nos. 43, 63 and 217; 1979 No. 176; 1980 Nos. 134 and 268.