Margarine Act Amendment Act 1979 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

MARGARINE.

No. 25 of 1979.

AN ACT to amend the Margarine Act, 1940-1973.

[Assented to 11th September, 1979.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Margarine Short title Shor

Act Amendment Act, 1979. citation. Approved

(2) In this Act the Margarine Act, 1940-1973 is

for

reprint

referred to as the principal Act.

14th April,

1975.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Margarine Act, 1940-1979.

No. 25.] Margarine [1979.

Section 5

amended. 2. Subsection (2) of section 5 of the principal Act

is repealed.

Section 6

amended. 3. Section 6 of the principal Act is amended

(a)

by adding immediately after the section

designation "6." the subsection designation

"(1)";

(b)

as to the interpretation "Margarine" by deleting the passage "include dripping or lard or any single fat sold as fat." in lines twelve and thirteen and substituting the passage

include

(c) dripping or lard or any single fat sold as fat; or

(d) dairy blend. ; and

(c) by adding the following subsection

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section "dairy blend" means an emulsion prepared in solid or semi-solid form from fats derived from milk and edible vegetable oil or oils which con- forms as to its ingredients, and to the proportions thereof, to the regulations in force under section two hundred and forty of the Health Act, 1911. .

Section 25A

repealed.	4. Section 25A of the principal Act is repealed.
Section 30

amended. 5. Subsection (1) of section 30 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words "and in lumps of not more than five hundred grams in weight" in lines two and three of paragraph (a) and substitut- ing the words "and does not exceed the maximum weight prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph".