Game, Poultry and Rabbit Meat Orders as amended (Amendment)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

EXPORT CONTROL (ORDERS) REGULATIONS

Game, Poultry and Rabbit Meat Orders as

amended (Amendment)

Export Control Orders No. 5 of 1989

I, THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR RESOURCES, hereby make the following Orders under the Export Control (Orders) Regulations.

  Dated 27th September 1989

PETER COOK

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Commencement

 1. These Orders shall come into operation in 1 October 1989.

Amendments to Orders

 2. The Game, Poultry and Rabbit Meat Orders as amended, are amended by replacing each leaf, the page numbers of which are specified in Column 1 with the attached leaves, the page numbers of which are specified in Column 2.

Note: These orders insert a new Part being “Part 11—Ancillary Meat Inspection Services” comprising new Orders 42 and 43.

Note: The above Table cites the Game, Poultry and Rabbit Meat Orders and subsequent amendments to those Orders up till the making of these Orders.

Note: Notes explaining provisions make reference to orders in abbreviated form. For example Export Control Orders No. 10 of 1986 is referred to as '10/86’.

14811/89‑Cat. No. 3/22.8.1989

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Game, Poultry and Rabbit Meat Orders

No. 3 of 1985

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

Order

  1. Citation

  2. Commencement

  3. Incorporation with Prescribed Goods (General) Orders

  4. Application

  5. Interpretation

  5A. Application of orders to certain kinds of goods derived from poultry

PART 2—REGISTERED ESTABLISHMENTS

  6. Preparation in registered establishment

  6A. Separate registration

  7. Compliance with certain requirements

  7A. Office for veterinary officer

PART 3—CONDITIONS OR RESTRICTIONS

  8. Conditions or restrictions to be complied with

PART 4—APPLICATION OF OFFICIAL MARKS AND OTHER STAMPS

  9. Official mark to be applied

10. Optional application of official mark

11. Application of stamp to poultry or rabbits not prepared under supervision

12. Legibility and fixing of official mark, etc.

13. Means of applying official mark to surface of prescribed goods

PART 5—PRESCRIBED TAG

14. Information to be included on tag

PART 6—SEALING OF CARTONS

15. Cartons to be sealed if required by foreign country

16. Resealing of cartons after re‑examination

17. Resealing of cartons after accidental breakage of seal

18. Application of seals

19. Stamping of seals

PART 7—SEALING OF MEANS OF TRANSPORT, CONTAINER SYSTEM UNITS, SHIPS, ESTABLISHMENT AND SAMPLES

20. Sealing of means of transport

21. Sealing of container system units

22. Sealing of ships, etc.

23. Sealing of establishment

24. Sealing of samples

25. Application of seals

26. Seals not to be broken

27. Breakage of seals during transport

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TABLE OF PROVISIONS — continued

Order

PART 8—DATE MARKING

28. Prescribed goods to be date marked

29. Date of packaging

30. Code to be approved when used

31. Design of date of packaging other than for cans

32. Legibility of date of packaging

33. Altering or interfering with date of packaging prohibited

34. Expiry date or shelf life

PART 9—EXOTIC DISEASE

35. Implementation of emergency procedures

36. Notification of State or Territory authorities

37. Procedures to be implemented

38. Procedures to be maintained until advised otherwise

39. Obligations of occupier of registered establishment

PART 10—EXPORT CERTIFICATION AND TRADE DESCRIPTIONS

40. Ante and post mortem certification

41. Requirements to be complied with

PART 11—ANCILLARY MEAT INSPECTION SERVICES

42. Application for inspection services

43. Meaning of “inspection services” in Part 11

SCHEDULE 1

INSPECTION STAMP FOR POULTRY OR RABBITS

SCHEDULE 2

TRADE DESCRIPTIONS

Procedures to be maintained until advised otherwise

 38. The procedures under order 37 shall be maintained until the competent authority in the State or Territory in which the registered establishment is located advises that they may be discontinued or that authority takes control.

Obligations of occupier of registered establishment

 39. For the purposes of implementing the procedures under order 37, the occupier of a registered establishment shall have in place arrangements that shall―

(a) ensure that all the procedures can be put into effect without delay;

(b) ensure that all directions given by an authorized officer are implemented without delay;

(c) provide ready access to a telephone;

(d) maintain a system of inventory giving detailed information as to the―

   (i) origin of carcases of game animals received;

  (ii) origin of prescribed goods and other goods and their location on the establishment;

 (iii) destination of prescribed goods and other goods that have left the establishment; and

  (iv) destination of carcases of game animals that have left the establishment; and

(e) provide any other assistance or information that an authorised officer requests.

PART 10—EXPORT CERTIFICATION AND TRADE

DESCRIPTIONS

Ante and Post Mortem Certification

 40. Where poultry from which poultry meat and poultry meat products are derived, have undergone ante and post mortem inspection, an authorized officer may issue to the occupier of the establishment or the person intending to export the goods, a certificate attesting to the inspection which shall be in writing in a form approved by the Secretary.

Requirements to be complied with

 41. A trade description as set out in Column 3 of Schedule 2 to these Orders in relation to prescribed goods of a kind shown in Column 1 of Schedule 2, shall be applied to prescribed goods of that kind.

Note on Orders 40 and 41: Inserted by 1/89

PART 11—ANCILLARY MEAT INSPECTION SERVICES

Application for inspection services

 42. Orders 450A to 450ZE inclusive of the Export Meat Orders as amended as in force from time to time apply to this Part as if any reference in those orders to “inspection services” has the same meaning given to that term by order 43.

Meaning of “inspection services” in Part 11

 43. For the purposes of this Part “inspection services” means any inspection services provided in respect of edible game offal, game meat and game meat products.

Note on Part 11: Inserted by 5/89.

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INSPECTION STAMP FOR POULTRY OR RABBITS

Design of stamp

The inspection stamp referred to in order 11 for poultry or rabbits that do not comply with paragraphs 10 (a) and (b) but that have been passed for export by an authorised officer shall be in accordance with the following design:

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