Quarantine (Animals) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 182

REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908*

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 Quarantine Act 1908.

Dated this thirteenth day of October 1977.

John R. Kerr

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

SGD. RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Health

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE QUARANTINE (ANIMALS) REGULATIONS 

Meat, edible parts of animals, &c.

1. Regulation 82 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) “ hermetically sealed cans or tins ” and substituting “ prescribed containers ”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (1a) “ hermetically sealed cans or tins ” and substituting “ prescribed containers ”;

(c) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1a) “ cans or tins ” and substituting “ prescribed containers ”;

(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (1b) “ hermetically sealed cans or tins ” and substituting “ prescribed containers ”;

(e) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1b) “ cans or tins ” and substituting “ prescribed containers ”;

(f) by omitting from sub-regulation (1c) “ cans or tins ” (wherever occurring) and substituting “ prescribed containers ”; and

(g) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

“ (3) In this regulation, ‘ prescribed container ’ means—

(a) a hermetically sealed can or tin; or

(b) a hermetically sealed container of a type approved by the Director of Quarantine.”

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 October 1977

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 71 as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, No. 37; 1937, No. 69; 1938, No. 95; 1939, No. 139; 1941, No. 83; 1942, No. 61; 1944, No. 184: 1946, No. 17; 1950, No. 95; 1953, No. 15; 1955, No. 10; 1956, Nos. 36, 65 and 111; 1958, Nos. 35 and 36; 1959, Nos. 72 and 87; 1960, No. 85; 1961, No. 23; 1966, Nos. 14, 109, 117 and 155; 1969, No. 98; 1971, No. 72; 1973, No. 179; 1974, No. 260; and 1976, Nos. 83 and 206.

14818/76 Cat. No. —Recommended retail price 10c 12/29.7.1977

Precautions to be taken by master of oversea vessel carrying Australian meat on voyages between Australian ports

2. Regulation 95a of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by inserting in paragraph (a) of the definition of “ meat ” in sub-regulation (9) “ or in hermetically sealed containers of a type approved by the Director of Quarantine ” after “ tins ”.

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