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Australian Meat and Livestock Industry (Export Licensing) Regulations 1998.

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Abstract
These Regulations, made under the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997, regulating certain matters regarding the exportation of meat.
Regulation 4 declares: a) meat that is, or has been, in a container labelled or marked as containing: (i) pet food; or (ii) inedible meat; or (iii) pharmaceutical material; or (b) meat that is stained in a way that identifies it as pet food or inedible meat, to be unfit for human consumption. Regulation 5 prescribes bodies for purposes of section 9 of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997. Regulation 6 prescribes procedures of application for export licence for the exportation of meat or livestock, or both meat and livestock. The remaining provisions also deal with the control on the exportation of meat and livestock: assessment of applications (8), further conditions for licences (9); events of which licence holder must inform Secretary (10), renewal of licence (11), the handling of samples and seized material (12). For subsection 57(3) of the Australian Meat and Livestock Industry Act 1997, the Secretary is prescribed as the person who can authorize sale or disposal of meat or livestock.
Notes
Last amendments up to: SLI 2009 No. 342 of 17 December 2009 (see F2009L04507). Reprinted as at 18 December 2009.
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English

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No