Commonwealth legislation

Australian Meat and Live-Stock Corporation Regulations

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

197 of 1988

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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What this does: These regulations give official legal recognition to two specific marketing schemes for meat and livestock under the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Act 1977.

The two schemes are:

AUS-MEAT: A quality standards scheme run by the Authority for Uniform Specification Meat and Livestock (this sets uniform specifications for meat and livestock classification)
CALM: A computer-aided livestock marketing scheme run by the CALM Services Board (essentially an early digital marketplace for selling livestock)

Why it matters: By officially "prescribing" these schemes under section 8(3A) of the Act, the regulations give them formal statutory backing. This affects how farmers, meat processors, and exporters trade and classify meat products, ensuring these industry standards have legal authority under Commonwealth law.

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Australian Meat and Live-Stock Corporation Regulations

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Statutory Rules 1988 No. 1971

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Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Regulations

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Act 1977.

Dated 1 August 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

JOHN KERIN

Minister of State for Primary Industries

and Energy

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Short title

These Regulations may be cited as the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Regulations.

Interpretation

In these Regulations, "the Act" means the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Act 1977.

Prescribed schemes: subsection 8 (3A) of the Act

For the purposes of subsection 8 (3A) of the Act, each of the following schemes is a prescribed scheme for the marketing of meat or livestock:

(a) AUS-MEAT, a scheme operated by the Authority for Uniform Specification Meat and Livestock, a committee appointed under section 16 of the Act;

(b) CALM, a computer aided livestock marketing scheme operated by the CALM Services Board, a committee appointed under that section.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 5 August 1988.

Source text

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

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