STATUTORY RULES.

1934. No. 98.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1930 AND THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1988.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901-1930 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1933.

Dated the sixth day of August, 1934.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRED H. STEWART

Minister of State for Commerce, and for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendments of the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1930, No. 132, as amended to this date.)

Interpretation.

1. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears, any reference to a regulation shall be read as a reference to a regulation contained in the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations, as amended to the date of commencement of these Regulations.

Preparation, inspection and packing of eggs in shell.

2. Regulation 13 is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (e) the figures “13 ¼” and inserting in their stead the figures “13½”;

(b) by omitting paragraph (h) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(h) Hen eggs shall be packed only in cases containing 15 dozen and 30 dozen eggs respectively, and the cases shall be made in accordance with the following specifications:—”

(i) The ends of each case shall be not less than seven-eighteenths of an inch in thickness, if made of spruce or hemlock, and not less than three-eighths of an inch in thickness if made of any other timber, and shall be dressed on the outside.

(ii) The boards forming the sides, top and bottom of each case shall be not less than one-quarter of an inch in thickness.

(iii) The top and bottom of each case shall be placed so as to overlap, and be flush with, the sides.

Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 9th August, 1984.

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(iv) If the case contains a middle division board, that board shall be not less than half an inch in thickness, and shall be placed in the case with the grain of the timber running horizontally across the case.

(v) Each case shall be constructed so as to permit of the accurate fitting of approved fillers, flats, or filler flats.

(vi) Each case shall be bound at both ends with galvanized wire of not lower than sixteen gauge, or with metal strapping of a kind approved by the Secretary”; and

(c) by omitting paragraph (i) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(i) Each hen egg shall be packed in a separate division constructed of new white odourless wood pulp board, the thickness of which shall, if less than .028 Caliper, be approved by the Secretary. Where wood wool or other odourless substance is used in the packing of eggs; the packing material and the mode of packing shall be approved by the Secretary;”;

Registration of Export Establishment.

3. Regulation 59 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) Every person who carries on the business of preparing, manufacturing, or packing butter, eggs, egg-pulp, or cheese for export shall, within twenty-eight days after he commences to carry on that business, apply for the registration of the premises in which that business is carried on as an export establishment in respect of butter, eggs, egg-pulp, or cheese, as the case may be:

Provided that where any premises are registered in accordance with the law of any State the provisions of this sub-regulation shall not apply to those premises so long as they remain so registered.”.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.