Stock Foods Act 1940 Stock Foods Amendment (Ruminants' Feed) Regulation 2001 (2001-866) [GG No 171 of 2.11.2001, p 8936] (NSW)

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Stock Foods Amendment (Ruminants’ New South Wales

Feed) Regulation 2001

under the

Stock Foods Act 1940

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Stock Foods Act 1940.

RICHARD AMERY, M.P.,

Minister for Agriculture

Explanatory note

Sections 6 and 7 of the Stock Foods Act 1940 provide, respectively, that persons must not, in the course of carrying on any business, supply:

(a)	any stock food or stock food supplement in a package unless the package has on it, or on a label securely and conspicuously attached to it, the particulars required by the regulations, or
(b)	any stock food that contains more than the maximum allowable proportion or amount of a foreign ingredient (as prescribed by the regulations).

The object of this Regulation is to amend the Stock Foods Regulation 1997:

(a)	to provide that hay, straw, chaff or stock food that consists entirely of milk or products derived from milk are not “manufactured stock foods” for the purposes of the Stock Foods Act 1940, and
(b)	to provide that horses are “stock” for the purposes of that Act, and
(c)	to alter the labelling requirements that apply to certain packages of manufactured stock foods, and
(d)	to apply the altered labelling requirements, and the maximum allowable proportion requirements, to all stock foods containing any animal material (other than tallow and gelatin), and
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(e)	to make other minor amendments.

This Regulation is made under the Stock Foods Act 1940, including sections 3, 6,
7 and 35 (the general regulation-making power).

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Stock Foods Amendment (Ruminants’ Feed) Regulation 2001	Clause 1
Stock Foods Amendment (Ruminants’ Feed) Regulation 2001

1. Name of Regulation

   This Regulation is the Stock Foods Amendment (Ruminants’ Feed)
   Regulation 2001.

2. Amendment of Stock Foods Regulation 1997

   The Stock Foods Regulation 1997 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

3 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

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Schedule 1	Amendments
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 2)

1. Clause 3 Definitions

   Insert in alphabetical order:

   label has the same meaning as in the Agvet Code.
   restricted animal material means tissue, blood or feathers
   derived from the carcass of an animal and includes any
   substance produced from or containing any such tissue, blood
   or feathers, but does not include tallow or gelatin.

   Note. Milk products are not regarded as restricted animal material as they are not tissue or blood derived from the carcass of an animal.

2. Clause 3, definition of “manufactured stock food”

   Insert “, but does not include hay, straw, chaff or any stock food that consists entirely of milk or products derived from milk” after “manufacturing process”.

3. Clauses 6 and 7

   Omit the clauses. Insert instead:

   6     Definition of “stock”: section 3

   The following are prescribed as stock for the purposes of the

   Act:

(a)	horses,
(b)	animals belonging to food producing species.

7     Definition of “stock food”: section 3

(1) Meal derived from restricted animal material is prescribed as
stock food for the purposes of the Act.

(2) Any substance:

(a) that is of a kind generally supplied otherwise than for use as stock food, and

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(b) that, in a particular supply, is not represented as being suitable for use as stock food,

is prescribed as not being stock food for the purposes of the
Act in relation to that supply.

1. Clause 8 Labelling of packages generally: section 6

Omit “attached to it a label that contains”. it,”.

1. Clauses 9 and 9A

   Omit the clauses. Insert instead:

   9     Labelling of packages of stock food: section 6

   (1) A package of any manufactured stock food containing restricted animal material must have on it, or on a label securely and conspicuously attached to it, the following statement:

   This product contains restricted animal material—DO NOT FEED TO CATTLE, SHEEP, GOATS, DEER OR OTHER RUMINANTS.

   (2) A package of any manufactured stock food that does not contain restricted animal material must have on it, or on a label securely and conspicuously attached to it, the following statement:

   This product does not contain restricted animal material.

   (3) The lettering in any statement referred to in subclause (1)

   or (2):

(a)

must:

(i)	if the statement is on a woven bag—be prominently displayed in letters of at least 10 millimetres in height, or
(ii)	in any other case—be prominently displayed in letters of at least 3 millimetres in height, and

(b)

must be printed on a background of contrasting colour.

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(4)	If the statement referred to in subclause (1) or (2) is on a label, the label must measure at least 45 millimetres by 120 millimetres.
(5)	This clause does not apply to packages of manufactured stock food that complied with clause 9, as in force immediately before the commencement of the Stock Foods Amendment (Ruminants’ Feed) Regulation 2001.
(6)	Subclause (5) ceases to have effect on 1 January 2002.

9A Offence to remove or interfere with label: section 6

A person must not, without reasonable excuse, remove, alter, obliterate or deface, or cause or permit the removal, alteration, obliteration or defacement of, any statement on, or any label attached to, a package of manufactured stock food in accordance with section 6 of the Act.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

1. Schedule 1 Foreign ingredients

   Omit the matter relating to Foreign ingredient 5A (Mammalian material) from Part 1.

2. Schedule 1, Part 1

   Insert after the matter relating to Foreign ingredient 10 (Reserpine):

10A	Restricted animal	Manufactured stock	Nil
material	food for ruminants

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