Exports (Meat) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 268

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 third day of September 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

Amendment of the Exports (Meat) Regulations2

Second Schedule

The Second Schedule to the Exports (Meat) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph 26 in Part I and substituting the following paragraph:

Edible offal

• “26.

  (1) Edible offal —

  • (a)

    shall be treated in a room set apart for the treatment of edible offal;

  • (b)

    in the case of edible offal that is to be exported chilled —

    • (i)

      within 2 hours of being removed from the carcass, shall be placed under refrigeration for chilling;

    • (ii)

      within 12 hours of being removed from the carcass, shall be reduced to a temperature of 3 degrees Celsius; and

    • (iii)

      shall be kept at a temperature not higher than 3 degrees Celsius; and

  • (c)

    in the case of edible offal that is to be exported frozen —

    • (i)

      shall be treated in the manner specified in clause (b) before being packed into the container in which it is to be exported and placed under refrigeration for freezing; or

    • (ii)

      if not so treated, shall be packed into the container in which it is to be exported and, within 2 hours of being removed from the carcass, shall be placed under refrigeration for freezing.

• “(2)

  The treatment of edible offal, other than washing, trimming, packing, freezing or chilling, shall be carried out in a room the temperature of which, during the treatment, is maintained by mechanical means at not higher than 10 degrees Celsius.

• “(3)

  Edible offal shall have its associated lymph nodes incised but those nodes shall not be removed unless the edible offal is subjected to a treatment other than washing, trimming, packing, freezing or chilling.

• “(4)

  Where edible offal is to be exported frozen, each container in which it is to be exported shall be of a size that permits the rapid and efficient freezing of the offal.

• “(5)

  Edible offal that is wrapped in the course of packing shall be wrapped in approved material.

• “(6)

  Edible offal shall not be packed in a container other than  —

  • (a)

    an approved container; or

  • (b)

    a container lined with approved material.

• “(7)

  A reference in sub-paragraphs (1) to (4) (inclusive) to edible offal shall be read as a reference to edible offal other than sausage casings.”.

Notes

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 September 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