Spirits Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
REGULATION UNDER THE SPIRITS ACT 1906-1923.
(Third 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
Dated this 22nd day of December 1927.
STONEHAVEN
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
THOS. W. CRAWFORD
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 the cancellation of the standard set out therein under the heading ‘Mineralized Spirits’ and by the substitution under that heading of 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 per cent. of wood naphtha or methyl alcohol (or alternatively, by one half of one per cent. of methyl alcohol and one twentieth of one per cent. of pyridine); two per cent. of one of the following:—Petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal tar naphtha, shale naphtha, benzole, or the like substances; and a percentage (not less than 10 per cent. and not exceeding 75 per cent.) of sulphuric ether.
Provided that—
In regard to the Mineralized Spirits (Power Alcohol) to which the
Power Alcohol Bounty Act 1926 relates, and for the purposes of that Act only, ‘sulphuric ether’ means sulphuric ether manufactured from spirit distilled from any of the following products grown in Australia, viz.:—Cassava, sweet potatoes, arrow-root, or any other cultivated starch-bearing plant approved by the Minister.’”
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By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.
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