STATUTORY RULES

1969 No.

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REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1968 AND THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1966.*

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 Customs Act 1901-1968 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1966.

Dated this second day of September, 1969.

 

 

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

 

(SGD.) J. D. ANTHONY

Minister of State for Primary Industry and for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

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Amendments of the Exports (General) Regulations†

Second Schedule.

The Second Schedule to the Exports (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from Item 8 the words “shall include a statement that the seeds are sound, clean and fresh and, in the case of lucerne seed” (in the third column) and inserting in their stead the words “, in the case of lucerne seeds”;

(b) by inserting in Item 9, after the word “than” (in the first column) the words “dried, split or kibbled peas,”;

(c) by omitting from Item 9 the words “In the case of dried vegetables, the trade description shall include a statement that the vegetables are sound, clean and fresh” (in the third column);

(d) by adding at the end thereof the following item:—

“10. Dried, split and kibbled peas.

1. (1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-paragraph, the peas shall be virtually free from damage by insects or disease and reasonably free from greened peas.

The trade description shall include the words ‘dried peas’, ‘split peas’ or ‘kibbled peas’, as the case may be.”.

 

(2.) The condition that the peas shall be reasonably free from greened peas does not apply in the case of peas to be exported to Mauritius.

 

 

2. The peas shall not be infested by insects, shall not be mixed with any foreign matter and, so far as is reasonably practicable, shall not have skins adhering to them.

 

 

3. In the case of split peas, the peas shall be reasonably free from broken or kibbled peas.

 

 

4. The peas shall be packed in new bags or used bags that are clean and sound.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1969.

† Statutory Rules 1954, No. 1, as amended by Statutory Rules 1954, Nos. 42 and 91; 1955, No. 91; 1956, Nos. 7 and 120; 1960, Nos. 40 and 69; 1963, Nos. 29 and 142; 1964, No. 153; 1966, No. 51; and 1969, No. 35.

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