Export Control Legislation Amendment (Australian Meat Standard) Rules 2023

I, Andrew Edgar Francis Metcalfe AO, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, make the following rules.

Dated   14th June 2023

A.Metcalfe

Andrew Edgar Francis Metcalfe AO

Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Export Control (Meat and Meat Products) Rules 2021

Export Control (Rabbit and Ratite Meat and Rabbit and Ratite Meat Products) Rules 2021

Export Control (Wild Game Meat and Wild Game Meat Products) Rules 2021

1  Name

  This instrument is the Export Control Legislation Amendment (Australian Meat Standard) Rules 2023.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Export Control Act 2020.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Export Control (Meat and Meat Products) Rules 2021

1  Section 1‑5 (definition of Australian Meat Standard)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

Australian Meat Standard means Australian Standard AS 4696:2023, Australian Standard for the Hygienic Production and Transportation of Meat and Meat Products for Human Consumption, as in force on 1 July 2023.

Export Control (Rabbit and Ratite Meat and Rabbit and Ratite Meat Products) Rules 2021

2  Section 1‑5 (definition of Australian Meat Standard)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

Australian Meat Standard means Australian Standard AS 4696:2023, Australian Standard for the Hygienic Production and Transportation of Meat and Meat Products for Human Consumption, as in force on 1 July 2023.

3  Subsection 1‑8(7)

Omit “Australia”, substitute “Australian”.

Export Control (Wild Game Meat and Wild Game Meat Products) Rules 2021

4  Section 1‑5 (definition of Australian Meat Standard)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

Australian Meat Standard means Australian Standard AS 4696:2023, Australian Standard for the Hygienic Production and Transportation of Meat and Meat Products for Human Consumption, as in force on 1 July 2023.