STATUTORY RULES.

1953. No. 74.

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REGULATION UNDER THE MEAT EXPORT CONTROL ACT 1935-1953.*

WHEREAS it is provided, inter alia, by section seventeen of the Meat Export Control Act 1935-1953 that, for the purpose of enabling the Australian Meat Board effectively to control the export of Australian meat, meat products and edible offal, the Governor-General may make regulations prohibiting the export from the Commonwealth of any meat, meat products or edible offal except by persons who hold licences issued by the Minister, and in accordance with such conditions and restrictions as are prescribed after recommendation to the Minister by the Board:

And whereas the Australian Meat Board has recommended to the Minister that the condition specified in the following Regulation be a prescribed condition for the purposes of that section:

Now therefore 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 Meat Export Control Act 1935-1953.

Dated this Seventh day of August, 1953.

W J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

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AMENDMENT OF THE MEAT EXPORT CONTROL (LICENCES) REGULATIONS.†

After regulation 7 of the Meat Export Control (Licences) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Slaughter and treatment of stock on a weight and grade basis.

“7A. A licensee shall, where an owner of stock so requests, slaughter and treat stock, or cause stock to be slaughtered and treated, on account of the owner on a weight and grade basis for submission for export, at the rates and on the conditions specified from time to time by the Board by notice in writing to that licensee.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1953.

† Statutory Rules 1936, No. 84, as amended by Statutory Rules 1936, Nos. 91 and 145; and 1949, No. 109.

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

2935.—Price 3D. 9/1.7.1953.