EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1987 NO 125
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industry
MEAT INSPECTION (MODIFICATION) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
The Meat Inspection Act 1983 (‘the Act’) provides for the inspection of meat which is intended for consumption within Australia. The Act applies only in those States which have referred to the Commonwealth their powers to legislate in this area and to Territories to which the Governor-General has declared by Proclamation that the Act should extend. The Act will be applicable in South Australia on 1 July 1987.
Sub-section 36(1) of the Act provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed. Sub-section 6(1) of the Act provides that the regulations may provide that a specified provision of the Act does not apply, or applies with specified modifications, in relation to a specified State or Territory.
The Meat Inspection (Modification) Regulations (Amendment) (‘the Amendment’) specify provisions of the Act which do not apply or which apply with specified modifications in South Australia.
Regulations 2 and 3 of the Amendment insert regulation 6 and Schedule 3 into the Meat Inspection (Modification) Regulations (the Principal Regulations).
Regulation 6, as inserted in the Principal Regulations, modifies several provisions in the Act to limit application of the Act to South Australia to meat prepared at an abattoir in South Australia as set out in the proposed Schedule 3.
The Amendment takes effect on 1 July 1987 when the Act was extended to South Australia.