Commerce (Imports) Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES.

1933. No. 61.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1930.

(Second 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 Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1930, to come into operation on and from the first day of September, 1933.

Dated this Seventeenth day of May, 1933.

(Sgd.) ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

Amendment of Commerce (Imports) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1927, No. 155, as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 6 is amended—

(a) by omitting the word “and” from sub-paragraph (g);

(b) by inserting at the end thereof the following paragraph:—

“; and

(i) China, porcelain and earthenware of the following kinds:—

(a) articles of a description commonly used in connexion with the serving of food or drink;

(b) kitchen ware and kitchen utensils.”

2. Regulation 9 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(6.) In the case of canned salmon the trade description shall contain the word ‘salmon’ and one or both of the following markings:—

(a) the colloquial name of the species of the salmon shown in prominent letters adjacent to the word ‘salmon’;

(b) an approved code mark in the form of a letter indented on the tin, indicating the species of the salmon.

1653.—Price 3d.

For the purposes of this sub-regulation the colloquial name and the approved code mark respectively for each of the undermentioned species of salmon shall be as set out hereunder:—

The word ‘red’ shall not be used in the trade description of any canned salmon of the species Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (‘pink’), Oncorhynchus keta (‘chum’) or Salmo gairdneri (‘steelhead’).”

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.