FOOD REGULATIONS AMENDMENT (1999 NO 18) 

- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Commencement  
2. Regulations amended  
3. Substitution  
4. Addition  

FOOD REGULATIONS AMENDMENT (1999 NO 18)
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Commencement
     These regulations commence on the day they are notified in the
Gazette.

FOOD REGULATIONS AMENDMENT (1999 NO 18)
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Regulations amended
     These regulations amend the Food Regulations.

FOOD REGULATIONS AMENDMENT (1999 NO 18)
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Substitution
     Regulation 1 is repealed and the following regulation
substituted:
"1      Name of regulations
     These regulations are the Food Regulations
1994.".

FOOD REGULATIONS AMENDMENT (1999 NO 18)
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Addition
     After regulation 4, the following regulation is added:
"5.      Sale of eggs
"(1)      For section 24B of the Act, an expression in the following
table is a prescribed expression, with the meaning given in the table, if it is
immediately followed or preceded on the label by the word
'egg':

      
      

Expression

Conditions under which the hens thatproduced the eggs
are kept

Battery cage

Hens are kept in cages--
         (a)      without access to litter, perch or nest; and
         (b)      in accordance with the stocking level and other requirements for cage
systems under the code.

      
      

Barn

Hens are kept--
         (a)      with the freedom and capacity to socialise, to move freely within the
shed, to stretch, perch, nest, dust bathe, flap wings and fly; and
         (b)      with adequate perching facilities and nests available to birds within
the shed to accommodate the needs of all hens; and

Expression

Conditions under which the hens thatproduced the eggs
are kept

         (c)      with half the housing kept under litter; and
         (d)      in accordance with the stocking level and other requirements for deep
litter systems on a single level under the code.

      
      

Aviary

Hens are kept in a shed--
         (a)      with the freedom and capacity to socialise, to move freely within the
shed, to stretch, perch, nest, dust bathe, flap wings and fly; and
         (b)      with adequate perching facilities and nests available to birds on a
number of levels within the shed to accommodate the needs of all hens;
and
         (c)      with half the housing kept under litter; and
         (d)     in accordance with the stocking level and other requirements for deep
litter systems under the code with the allowance of a number of additional
levels of nesting and perching space.

Free range

Hens are kept--
         (a)      with continuous day-time access to outdoor runs; and
         (b)      with access at all times to indoor litter, perches and nests;
and
          (c)      with adequate protection at all times from predators and the
elements; and
         (d)      in accordance with the stocking level and other requirements for
range systems under the code.

"(2)      For section 24B of the Act, a label is conspicuous if the
prescribed expression is in a standard type of at least 6 mm.
"(3)      In this regulation--
"code" means the current Model Code of Practice for the
Welfare of Animals: Domestic Poultry, made by the Animal Health Committee of
the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Resource Management
(SCARM).".
     
1     SL 1994 No 4 (not republished).  
2     Notified in the Gazette on 16 September 1999.

(c)  Australian Capital Territory
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FOOD REGULATIONS AMENDMENT (1999 NO 18)
- NOTES

Australian Capital
Territory

The Australian Capital Territory Executive makes the following regulations
under the Food Act 1992.
    Dated 15 September 1999.
MICHAEL MOOREMinister
BRENDAN SMYTHMinister