Meat Act 1953 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERMTORY.

No. 6 of 1953.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Meat Ordinance 1931-1950.

E it ordained by the Governor-General in and over the

•	B	Executive Council, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Commonwealth of Australia, with the advice of the Federal
Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909-1938 and the Seat of
Government {Administration) Act 1910-1947, as follows:—

1.— (1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Meat Ordinance snort title

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(2.) The Meat Ordinance 1931-1950 is in this Ordinance

referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance,

may be cited as the Meat Ordinance 1931-1953.

2. Section four of the Principal Ordinance is amended by Definitions,

omitting from the definition of " Meat" the word " fa t " and

inserting in its stead the words " edible offal".

3. Section seven of the Principal Ordinance is repealed and

the following sections are inserted in its stead:—

"7 .— (1.) A person shall not sell or expose for sale, or have Meattobe

in his possession for sale, any meat in respect of which a brand

is prescribed unless the meat bears the prescribed brand.

Penalty: Fifty pounds.

" (2.) This section does not apply in respect of meat lawfully

brought into the Territory.

" 7A. A person shall not, except as authorized under the regula- Bringing oi

tions, bring meat into the Territory, or cause meat to be brought Territory,

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

or sent into the Territory, for the purposes of sale or of a business

carried on by him or by another person.

Penalty: Fifty pounds.".

Dated this fourteenth day of March, 1953.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

EARLE PAGE

for and on behalf of the Minister of State

for the Interior.

• Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 26th March, 1953.

By Authority: L. P. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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