EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1988 NO 227
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Resources
MEAT INSPECTION ACT 1983
MEAT INSPECTION (MODIFICATION) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Subsection 36(1) of the Meat Inspection Act 1983 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The Meat Inspection (Modification) Regulations (Amendment) made on 16 March 1988 being Statutory Rules 1988 No. 34 contained a drafting error.
The Meat Inspection (Modification) Regulations (Amendment) corrects the error by amending the Meat Inspection (Modification) Regulations by omitting from clause 2 “(8) In this section:” and substituting “(9) In this section:”.
The amendment took effect upon gazettal.