Spirits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1954. No..

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SPIRITS ACT 1906-1952.*

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 Spirits Act 1906-1952.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of October, 1954.

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

For and on behalf of the Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendments of the Spirits Regulations.

1. Regulation 17 of the Spirits Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (b) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“ (b)one-quarter of one per centum of wood naphtha, one-eighth of one per centum of pyridine and one per centum of any one of the following substances:—petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal tar naphtha or shale naphtha.”.

2. Regulation 19 of the Spirits Regulations is amended by omitting the words “ of such Methylating Substance and in such proportion as the Comptroller directs ” and inserting in their stead the words “ , in such proportions as the Comptroller directs, of methyl alcohol or such other substance as the Comptroller directs ”.

3. Regulations 25 and 25a of the Spirits Regulations are repealed and the following regulation is inserted in their stead :—

“ 25.—(1.) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 21 of the Act the prescribed quantity of methylated spirits, being methylated spirits for special manufacture or special purpose, is one hundred gallons.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1954.

  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; and 1953, No. 16.

957.—Price 3d. 9/16.7.1954.

“ (2.) For the purposes of paragraph (b)of section 21 of the Act the prescribed quantity of methylated spirits, being methylated spirits for special manufacture or special purpose, is one hundred gallons.

“ (3.) A methylator may, with permission, sell at the one time a greater quantity of methylated spirits for special manufacture or special purpose than one hundred gallons.

“ (4.) A person not being a methylator may, with permission, have in his possession a greater quantity of methylated spirits for special manufacture or special purpose than one hundred gallons.

“ (5.) A methylator may have in his possession a greater quantity of methylated spirits for special manufacture or special purpose than one hundred gallons.”.

4. Regulation 30 of the Spirits Regulations is amended by omitting the words “ Four shillings and sixpence ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Eight shillings ”.

5. Regulation 40 of the Spirits Regulations is repealed.

6. Regulation 42 of the Spirits Regulations is amended by omitting the words “ Four shillings and sixpence ” and inserting in their stead the words “ Eight shillings ”.

7. Regulation 43 of the Spirits Regulations is repealed.

8. Regulations 55 and 56 of the Spirits Regulations are repealed and the following regulation is inserted in their stead :—

“ 55.—(1.) For the purposes of paragraph (a)of section 21 of the Act, the prescribed quantity of methylated spirits, being industrial spirits or mineralized spirits, or partly of each of those kinds of spirits, is five hundred gallons.

“ (2.) A methylator may sell at the one time a greater quantity of industrial spirits or mineralized spirits than five hundred gallons.

“ (3.) A person not being a methylator may, with permission, sell at the one time a greater quantity of industrial spirits or mineralized spirits than five hundred gallons.”.

9. Regulation 57 of the Spirits Regulations is amended by omitting the words “ less than four gallons of ”.

10. The Schedule to the Spirits Regulations is amended by omitting Form 7.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.