Spirits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
REGULATION UNDER THE SPIRITS ACT 1906-1973.*
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive
Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the
Dated this twenty third day of July, 1974.
John R. Kerr
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(Sgd) LIONEL MURPHY
Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
Amendment of the Spirits Regulations
Regulation 17 of the Spirits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—
“17 (1) The standard for the class of methylated spirits called industrial spirits is that the spirit before methylation is to contain not less than 94 per centum by volume of alcohol and is to be methylated by the addition of—
(a) 0.25 per centum of wood naphtha or methyl alcohol, 0.5 per centum of pyridine and 0.5 per centum of any one of the following substances, namely, petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal tar naphtha or shale naphtha;
(b) 0.25 per centum of wood naphtha or methyl alcohol, 0.125 per centum of pyridine and 1 per centum of any one of the following substances, namely, petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal tar naphtha or shale naphtha; or
(c) 6.6 parts per million by weight of bitrex, 0.25 per centum by weight of methyl-isobutyl-ketone and 1 part per million by weight of fluorescein.
* Notified in the
Statutory Rules 1926, No. 202, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 28, 51 and 154; 1928, Nos. 14 and 106; 1929, No. 98; 1930, No. 35; 1932, No. 60; 1935, No. 68; 1936, No. 60; 1939, Nos. 8 and 171; 1940, No. 248; 1953, No. 16; 1954, No. 110; 1958, No. 56; 1959, No. 18; 1960, No. 61; 1966, No. 73; 1970, Nos. 56 and 103; 1972, No. 94; and 1974, No. 26.
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“(2) The standard for the class of methylated spirits called mineralized spirits is that the spirit before methylation is to contain not less than 94 per centum by volume of alcohol and is to be methylated by the addition of—
(a) 0.25 per centum of wood naphtha or methyl alcohol, 0.05 per centum of pyridine and not less than 2 per centum of any one of the following substances, namely, petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal tar naphtha, shale naphtha, benzol or a like substance; or
(b) 6.6 parts per million by weight of bitrex, 0.25 per centum by weight of methyl-isobutyl-ketone and 1 part per million by weight of fluorescein.”.
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