Spirits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1929. No. 98.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE SPIRITS ACT 1906-1923.

(Sixth Amendment.)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby make the following Regulations under the Spirits Act 1906-1923 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fifth day of September, 1929.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command.

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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amendment of spirits regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 202, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 17 of the Spirits Regulations is hereby cancelled and the following substituted:

“17. The standards for the classes of Methylated Spirits called Industrial Spirits, Mineralized Spirits and Alcohol Fuel 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 overproof and to be methylated by the addition of ½ per cent. of approved methyl alcohol, one twentieth of 1 per cent. of pyridine, and 2 per cent. of one of the following:— Petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal-tar naphtha, shale, naphtha, benzole or the like substances.

 

Alcohol Fuel

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

(a) 1 per cent. of wood naphtha and ½per cent. of pyridine; or

(b) 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, benzole, sulphuric ether, or the like substances.

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By Authority: H . J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.