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(3.) Notwithstanding the repeal effected by sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation—

(a) an establishment registered, immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, for the carrying on of certain operations specified in the certificate of registration issued in relation to the premises under the Regulations so repealed continues to be registered for the carrying on of the operations so specified after the commencement of these Regulations as if the registration in respect of the premises had been effected under these Regulations on the date of commencement of these Regulations;

(b) a person appointed as a grader or an analyst under the Regulations so repealed and holding office immediately before the commencement of these Regulations continues to hold office as a grader or an analyst, as the case may be, after the commencement of these Regulations as if he had been appointed under these Regulations; and

(c) an approval given by the Minister or the Secretary under a provision of the Regulations repealed by these Regulations and in force immediately before the commencement of these Regulations shall, after that commencement, be deemed to have been given by the Minister or the Secretary, as the case may be, under the corresponding provision of these Regulations.

Interpretation.

5.—(1.) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“approved”, in relation to a person or thing, means a person or thing approved by the Secretary for the purposes of the provision in which the expression occurs;

“boar” includes stag;

“bull” includes stag;

“can” includes an immediate container made of tin, glass or an approved material;

“canned” means preserved by heat sterilization and enclosed in a hermetically sealed can;

“carton” means a carton made of fibreboard;

“Chief Veterinary Officer” means the veterinary officer holding, or performing the duties of, the office of Chief Veterinary Officer, Department of Primary Industry;

“condemned” means condemned as being unfit for human consumption;

“condemned truck” means a vehicle used for the purpose of carrying condemned meat, and not otherwise;

“coverings”, in relation to meat, a meat product or edible offal, means all the principal coverings in which the meat, meat product or edible offal is contained;

“cut” means a piece of a carcass recognized in commerce as a definite part of the carcass;

“disease”, in relation to meat, a meat product or edible offal, means such a deviation from the normal in the condition of an organ, or any tissue, forming part of the meat, meat product or edible offal as renders the meat, meat product or edible offal unsightly or unfit for human consumption;

“drawn”, in relation to poultry, means that all the inedible offal has been removed from the poultry;

“dressed weight”—

(a) in relation to beef or veal—means the weight of the beef or veal when in a chilled state; and

(b) in relation to lamb, mutton, pork, rabbits, hares or poultry—means the weight of the lamb, mutton, pork, rabbits, hares or poultry when in a frozen state;

“edible offal” means an edible part of a carcass, other than the flesh of a carcass, and includes sausage casings;

“export establishment” means premises registered as an export establishment in pursuance of regulation 20 of these Regulations;

“grader” means a person appointed to be a grader in pursuance of regulation 49 of these Regulations;

“meat” means the flesh of cattle (including buffaloes), horses, calves, sheep, lambs, pigs, goats, rabbits, hares or poultry intended for human consumption;

“meat product” means food prepared from meat or food of which meat is an ingredient;

“officer” has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1950;

“officer-in-charge”, in relation to an export establishment, means—

(a) in a case where only one officer is performing duty at the export establishment—the officer so performing duty; and

(b) in any other case—an officer performing duty at the export establishment designated as the officer-in-charge by the veterinary officer-in-charge in the State in which the export establishment is situated;

“official stamp” means a stamp or mark that may be applied by an officer to meat, a meat product or edible offal, or to the coverings or containers of meat, a meat product or edible offal, for the purposes of the provision in which the expression occurs;

“poultry” includes any bird intended for human consumption other than mutton-birds;

“preservative” means a substance, other than salt, sugar, wood-smoke, acetic acid, pure spice, nitrate of sodium, nitrate of potassium, nitrite of sodium or nitrite of potassium which is added to meat, a meat product or edible offal for the purpose of preventing or delaying the deterioration of the meat, meat product or edible offal;

“ram” includes stag;

“registered brand” means a brand registered, in pursuance of regulation 40 of these Regulations, as a brand that may be included in the trade description of meat, meat products and edible offal intended for export;

“rejected” means unsuitable for export;

“salt meat” includes meat that has been pickled or cured in brine, but does not include canned meat;

“scraps” means pieces of meat other than cuts of meat;

“ship” includes aircraft;

“sound” means free from disease;

“tag”, in relation to meat, a meat product or edible offal, means the inspection certificate in the form of a prescribed tag issued in respect of the meat, meat product or edible offal under regulation 33 of these Regulations;

“the Minister” means the Minister of State for Primary Industry;

“the Secretary” means the person for the time being holding, or performing the duties of, the office of Secretary to the Department of Primary Industry;

“veterinary officer” means a veterinary officer of the Department of Primary Industry;

“veterinary officer-in-charge”, in relation to a State, means the veterinary officer holding, or performing the duties of, the office of veterinary officer-in-charge, Department of Primary Industry, in that State.

(2.) In these Regulations, a reference to a Schedule by number shall be read as a reference to the Schedule to these Regulations so numbered, and a reference to a Form by number shall be read as a reference to the Form so numbered in the Fifth Schedule to these Regulations.

References to meat.

6. In these Regulations, other than in the last preceding regulation, a reference to meat shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be read as including a reference to meat products and edible offal.

Application.

7. These Regulations do not apply to or in relation to—

(a) meat that is taken on board a ship in Australia for the use of the passengers and crew, and for the service, of the ship on a voyage; or

(b) meat that is imported into Australia and that, in the opinion of an officer, is not the produce of Australia.

Delegation.

8.—(1.) The Secretary may, either generally or in relation to a matter or class of matters and either in relation to the whole of the Commonwealth or to a State or part of the Commonwealth, by writing under his hand, delegate any of his powers and functions under these Regulations (except this power of delegation).

(2.) A power or function so delegated may be exercised or performed by the delegate in accordance with the instrument of delegation.

(3.) A delegation under this regulation is revocable at will and does not prevent the exercise of a power or the performance of a function by the Secretary.

Exemption.

9. Where the Secretary is satisfied that meat is being exported for experimental purposes or in exceptional circumstances, the Secretary may specify in an instrument under his hand the provisions of these Regulations that he is satisfied need not apply to or in relation to the exportation of that meat and, upon the issue of the instrument, those provisions do not apply to or in relation to the exportation of that meat.

Compliance with forms.

10. Strict compliance with the Forms contained in the Fifth Schedule is not necessary, and substantial compliance is sufficient.

Part II.—General Provisions as to the Exportation of Meat.

Exportation of certain meat, meat products and edible offal prohibited.

11.—(1.) The exportation of meat or edible offal is prohibited unless the meat or edible offal—

(a) was obtained from an animal that was slaughtered at premises registered under these Regulations as an export establishment for the slaughtering and dressing of a class of animals in which that animal is included; and

(b) was treated or stored only at premises registered under these Regulations as an export establishment for the treatment or storing, as the case may be, of a class of meat or edible offal in which that meat or edible offal is included.

(2.) The exportation of a meat product is prohibited—

(a) unless the meat or edible offal from which the meat product was prepared—

(i) was obtained from an animal that was slaughtered at premises registered under these Regulations as an export establishment for the slaughtering and dressing of a class of animals in which that animal is included; and

(ii) was, before being used in the preparation of the meat product, treated or stored only at premises registered under these Regulations as an export establishment for the treatment or storing, as the case may be, of a class of meat or edible offal in which that meat or edible offal is included; and

(b) unless the meat product was prepared and stored only at premises registered under these Regulations as an export establishment for the preparation or storing, as the case may be, of a class of meat product in which that meat product is included.

(3.) The provisions of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, and the provisions of sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of the last preceding sub-regulation, do not prevent the exportation of—

(a) rabbits or hares that were not slaughtered at an export establishment; or

(b) meat, a meat product or edible offal obtained from any such rabbits or hares.

(4.) The exportation of whale meat for human consumption is prohibited.

(5.) The exportation of beef (other than bull beef), veal, mutton (other than ram mutton), lamb, pork, poultry, rabbits or hares is prohibited unless the quality of the beef, veal, mutton, lamb, pork, poultry, rabbits or hares was determined by a grader.

(6.) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) where an animal was slaughtered before the commencement of these Regulations at premises that were, at the time of the slaughtering, registered, under the provisions of the Regulations repealed by these Regulations, for the slaughtering and dressing of a class of animals in which that animal was included, that animal shall be deemed to have been slaughtered at premises referred to in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation; and

(b) where any operations connected with the treatment or storing of meat, a meat product or edible offal were, before the commencement of these Regulations, performed in respect of any meat, meat product or edible offal at premises that were, at the time the operations were performed, registered under the provisions of the Regulations repealed by these Regulations for the carrying on of those operations, the meat, meat product or edible offal shall not, by reason of having been so treated or stored, be deemed to have been treated or stored at premises other than premises referred to in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.

(7.) In this regulation, a reference to meat shall not be read as including a reference to meat products or edible offal.

Exportation of meat prohibited except subject to conditions.

12.—(1.) The exportation of meat is prohibited unless—

(a) the meat complies with such of the conditions and restrictions specified in Part I. of the Second Schedule as are applicable to the meat;

(b) the meat has been passed for export under these Regulations and has not, in the opinion of an officer, deteriorated since having been so passed for export;

(c) the exporter holds a valid export permit issued under these Regulations in respect of the meat;

(d) the meat, in the opinion of an officer—

(i) in the case of meat that is intended to be exported as chilled meat, is sufficiently chilled or, in the case of meat that is intended to be exported as frozen meat, is sufficiently frozen;

(ii) is packed in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations;

(iii) is wrapped in clean coverings that have not been used otherwise than as coverings for that meat; and

(iv) is not mis-shapen; and

(e) the meat is loaded, for export, into a hold of a ship that—

(i) is not, in the opinion of an officer, in an insanitary condition; and

(ii) does not contain any goods that are likely, in the opinion of an officer, to cause the meat to become contaminated,

and is stored in that hold to the satisfaction of an officer.

(2.) The exportation of meat contained in a package is prohibited unless—

(a) the package contains only one piece of meat; or

(b) all the pieces of meat in the package are, unless the Secretary approves otherwise, pieces of meat of the same cut, kind and quality.

Exportation of meat prohibited unless the meat is of certain kind.

13.—(1.) The exportation of meat is prohibited unless the meat is—

(a) meat of a kind referred to in the first column of the Third Schedule;

(b) ham;

(c) bacon;

(d) meat derived from a buffalo;

(e) a meat product; or

(f) edible offal.

(2.) Meat shall be deemed not to be meat of a kind referred to in the first column of the Third Schedule unless it complies wi

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