Meat Export Control (Licences) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1972 No.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE MEAT INDUSTRY ACT 1964-1969.*

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (1.) of section 29 of the Meat Industry Act 1964-1969 that, for the purpose of enabling the Australian Meat Board effectively to control the export, and the sale and distribution after export, of meat, the regulations may prohibit the export from Australia of meat by a person other than the Australian Meat Board unless—

(a) the person holds a licence granted, or to be deemed to be granted, under that section; and

(b) the export is in accordance with such conditions and restrictions as are prescribed:

AND WHERAS it is provided by sub-section (2.) of that section that regulations prescribing conditions or restrictions for the purposes of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) of section 29 of the Meat Industry Act 1964-1969 shall not be made unless the conditions or restrictions have been recommended to the Minister of State for Primary Industry by the Australian Meat Board:

AND WHEREAS the Australian Meat Board has recommended to the Minister of State for Primary Industry that the conditions and restrictions in accordance with which meat may be exported he the conditions and restrictions set out in the Meat Export Control (Licences) Regulations as amended by these Regulations:

NOW THEREFORE I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Meat Industry Act 1964-1969.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of May, 1972

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

Minister of State for Primary Industry.

 

Amendments of the Meat Export Control (Licences) Regulations 

Returns to be furnished in respect of meat exported.

1.—(1.) Regulation 12 of the Meat Export Control (Licences) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(1.) In the next two succeeding sub-regulations—

(a)a reference to meat shall be read as including a reference to a meat product and edible offal; and

(b) a reference to a carton shall be read as including a reference to any other kind of container or package in which meat, a meat product or edible offal is packed for exportation.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1972.

  Statutory Rules 1961, No. 127, as amended by Statutory Rules 1967, No. 81 and 1969, No. 191.

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“(1a.) Where a person, being a licensee, proposes to export meat on his own behalf or on behalf of another person, including another person who is also a licensee, he shall furnish a return of, and in relation to, that meat, in accordance with a form approved by the Board, setting out—

(a) the full name of the licensee;

(b) if he obtained the meat from another person—the full name of the person from whom the meat was obtained;

(c) the serial number of the Export Permit issued under regulation 36 of the Exports (Meat) Regulations in relation to the exportation of the meat;

(d) the full name of the person to whom the meat is to be exported;

(e) the vessel onto which the meal was, or is to be, loaded for exportation;

(f) the port at which, and the date on which, the meat was, or is to be, so loaded onto the vessel;

(g)the port of destination of the meat;

(h) the State in which the meat was produced; and

(j) such particulars of—

(i) the meat;

(ii) the cartons in which the meat is packed; and

(iii) the manner in which the meat is packed,

as he is required to give in accordance with the directions in the form.

“(1b.) The exportation of meat by a person on a vessel for carriage from a port in Australia to a port outside Australia shall not be taken to comply with the conditions and restrictions prescribed by the last preceding sub-regulation if the return furnished in respect of the meat contains particulars relating to the exportation of any other meat—

(a) by another person;

(b) on another vessel;

(c) from another port in Australia; or

(d) to another port outside Australia.”.

(2.) Regulation 12 of the Meat Export Control (Licences) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2.) the word “quadruplicate” and inserting in its stead the word “quintuplicate”.

The Schedule.

2. The Schedule to the Meat Export Control (Licences) Regulations is amended by omitting Form 4.

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