Spirits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1928. No. 106.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE SPIRITS ACT 1906-1923.

(FIFTH 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 eight day of October, 1928.

Governor-General,

By His Excellency’s Command,

for 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 amended by cancelling the standard and proviso set out therein under the heading “Mineralized Spirits” and substituting under that heading the following

“The spirit before methylation to be of a strength of not less than 65 degrees overproof and to be methylated by the addition of one half of one per cent. of approved methyl alcohol, one twentieth of one per cent. of pyridine arid two per cent. of one of the following substances:—Petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal-tar naphtha, shale naphtha, benzole or the like substances.”

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

2242.—Price 3d.