STATUTORY RULES.
1940. No. 248.
REGULATION UNDER THE SPIRITS ACT l906-1935.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Spirits Act 1906-1935.
Dated this thirteenth day of November, 1940.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Trade and Customs.
Amendment of the Spirits Regulations.†
Regulation 17 of the Spirits Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
“17. The standards for the classes of methylated spirits called Industrial Spirits and Mineralized Spirits shall be as follows:—
Industrial Spirits.
The spirit before methylation shall be of not less than 65 degrees overproof and shall be methylated by the addition of—
(a) One-quarter of one per cent. of wood naphtha or methyl alcohol, one-half of one per cent. of pyridine and one-half of one per cent. of any one of the following substances:—Petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal tar naphtha or shale naphtha; or
(b) One-quarter of one per cent. of wood naphtha or methyl alcohol, one-quarter of one per cent. of pyridine, two to twenty per cent. of benzine and one-quarter of one per cent. of a solution of aniline violet or blue dye.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1940.
† Statutory Rules 1926, No. 202, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 28, 51 and 154; 1928, Nos. 14 and 106; 1929, No. 98; 1930, No. 35; 1932, No. 60; 1935, No. 68; 1936, No. 60; 1939, Nos. 8 and 171.
6545.—6/29.10.1940.—Price 3d.
Mineralized Spirits.
The spirit before methylation shall be of a strength of not less than 65 degrees overproof and shall be methylated by the addition of one-quarter of one per cent. of wood naphtha or methyl alcohol, one-twentieth of one per cent. of pyridine and not less than two per cent. of any one of the following substances:—Petrol, gasoline, petroleum benzine, petroleum naphtha, coal tar naphtha, shale naphtha, benzol or like substances.”.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.