Statutory Rules
1977 No. 182
REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908.
Dated this thirteenth day of October 1977.
John R. Kerr
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
SGD. RALPH J. HUNT
Minister of State for Health
AMENDMENTS OF THE QUARANTINE (ANIMALS) REGULATIONS†
Meat, edible parts of animals, &c.
1. Regulation 82 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) “ hermetically sealed cans or tins ” and substituting “ prescribed containers ”;
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (1a) “ hermetically sealed cans or tins ” and substituting “ prescribed containers ”;
(c) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1a) “ cans or tins ” and substituting “ prescribed containers ”;
(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (1b) “ hermetically sealed cans or tins ” and substituting “ prescribed containers ”;
(e) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1b) “ cans or tins ” and substituting “ prescribed containers ”;
(f) by omitting from sub-regulation (1c) “ cans or tins ” (wherever occurring) and substituting “ prescribed containers ”; and
(g) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:
“ (3) In this regulation, ‘ prescribed container ’ means—
(a) a hermetically sealed can or tin; or
(b) a hermetically sealed container of a type approved by the Director of Quarantine.”
* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 October 1977
† Statutory Rules 1935, No. 71 as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, No. 37; 1937, No. 69; 1938, No. 95; 1939, No. 139; 1941, No. 83; 1942, No. 61; 1944, No. 184: 1946, No. 17; 1950, No. 95; 1953, No. 15; 1955, No. 10; 1956, Nos. 36, 65 and 111; 1958, Nos. 35 and 36; 1959, Nos. 72 and 87; 1960, No. 85; 1961, No. 23; 1966, Nos. 14, 109, 117 and 155; 1969, No. 98; 1971, No. 72; 1973, No. 179; 1974, No. 260; and 1976, Nos. 83 and 206.
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Precautions to be taken by master of oversea vessel carrying Australian meat on voyages between Australian ports
2. Regulation 95a of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by inserting in paragraph (a) of the definition of “ meat ” in sub-regulation (9) “ or in hermetically sealed containers of a type approved by the Director of Quarantine ” after “ tins ”.
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