Spirits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1935. No. 68.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SPIRITS ACT 1906-1935.*

(Ninth Amendment.)

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 Sixteenth day of July, 1935.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of Spirits Regulations.

Regulation 17 of the Spirits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“17. The standards for the classes of Methylated Spirits called Industrial Spirit and Mineralized Spirits are as follows:—

Industrial Spirits.

The spirit before methylation to be of a strength of not less than 65 degrees over-proof, and to be methylated by the addition of—

(a) 2 per cent. of wood naphtha, ½ per cent. of pyridine and ½ per cent. of one of the following:—Petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal-tar naphtha, or shale naphtha; or

(b) 1 per cent. of wood naphtha, ¼ per cent. of pyridine, 2 to 20 per cent. of benzine and ¼ per cent. of a solution of aniline violet or blue dye.

Mineralized Spirits.

The spirit before methylation to be of a strength of not less than 65 degrees over-proof and to be methylated by the addition of—

(a)½per cent. of methyl alcohol, one-twentieth of 1 per cent. of pyridine and not less than 2 per cent. of one of the following:—Petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal-tar naphtha, shale naphtha, benzol or like substances; or

(b) ¼ per cent. of methyl alcohol, 1 per cent. of benzol and 1 per cent. of petrol; or

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1935.

 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.

2549.—10/17.6.1935.—Price 3d.

 

(c) 1 per cent. of wood naphtha, ½ per cent. of pyridine and not less than 2 per cent. of one of the following:—Petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal-tar naphtha, shale naphtha, benzol, sulphuric ether, or like substances; or

(d)2 per cent. of wood naphtha and not less than 2 per cent. of one of the following:—Petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal-tar naphtha, shale naphtha, benzol, sulphuric ether, or like substances.

 

By Authority: L.