Spirits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No. 8.

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REGULATION UNDER THE SPIRITS ACT 1906-1935.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of, Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Spirits Act 1906-1935.

Dated this fifteenth day of February, 1939.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. A. PERKINS

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of the Spirits Regulations.

Regulation 18 of the Spirits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“18.—(1) Except with the written permission of the Comptroller, methylated spirits for sale shall not be treated in any manner, or mixed with water or any other substance, so as to reduce the normal strength thereof.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, the normal strength of industrial methylated spirit shall be deemed to be the apparent strength of 64 degrees overproof as denoted by Sikes’ hydrometer.”.

  

* Notified in Commonwealth Gazette on 16th February, 1939. (Eleventh Amendment.)

  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; and 1986, No. 60.

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

14.—Price 3d.