Standard for Industrial Spirits Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1911. No. 160.

REGULATION UNDER THE SPIRITS ACT 1906.

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 Regulation under the Spirits Act 1906, to come into operation forthwith; such Regulation to supersede the Provisional Regulation made under the said Act on 30th June, 1911 (Statutory Rules 1911, No. 101).

Dated this 20th day of September, One thousand nine hundred and eleven.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Standard for Industrial Spirits.

The following shall be the standard for Industrial Spirits, in lieu of that set out in the Schedule to the Spirits Act 1906:—

The spirit before methylation to be of a strength not less than 65 degrees overproof, and to be methylated by the addition of two per cent. of wood naphtha, one-half per cent. of pyridine liquid, and one-half per cent. of coal tar naphtha or shale naphtha.

 

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