Stock Foods Amendment Act 1966
Stock Foods Amendment Act 1966
Stock Foods Amendment Act 1966
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Stock Foods Amendment Act 1966
Public Act |
1966 No 48 |
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Date of assent |
19 October 1966 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Stock Foods Act 1946
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title and commencement
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Stock Foods Amendment Act 1966, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Stock Foods Act 1946 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
(2)
This Act shall come into force on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and sixty-seven.
2 Definition of stock to include dogs
Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in the definition of the term “stock”
in subsection (1), after the word “pigs”
, the word “dogs”
.
3 Substances added to or comprised in stock foods
(1)
Subsection (1) of section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended—
(a)
By repealing the definition of the term “chemical component”
:
(b)
By omitting from the definition of the term “percentage”
the words “chemical component of a stock food”
, and substituting the words “substance added to or comprised in a stock food”
:
(c)
By inserting, after the definition of the term “sale”
, the following definition:
“‘Specified substance’, in relation to any stock food, means any substance specified in the second column of the First Schedule to this Act:
(2)
Section 5 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (f) of subsection (1) the words “the chemical composition of the stock food”
, and substituting the words “any substance added to or comprised in the stock food”
.
(3)
Section 7 of the principal Act is hereby amended—
(a)
By omitting from paragraph (c) of subsection (1) the words “the chemical composition of the stock food”
, and substituting the words “any specified substance added to or comprised in the stock food”
:
(b)
By omitting from subsection (2) the words “the percentage of any chemical component of the stock food if the extent to which such percentage was misstated”
, and substituting the words “the percentage, proportion, or amount of any specified substance added to or comprised in the stock food if the extent to which that percentage, proportion, or amount was misstated”
:
(c)
By omitting from subsection (2) the word “component”
, where it last appears, and substituting the word “substance”
.
(4)
Section 13 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection (3) the word “ingredient”
, and substituting the words “specified substance”
.
(5)
Section 24 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (d) of subsection (2), and substituting the following paragraph:
“(d)
Prescribing methods of analysis for determining the percentage, proportion, or amount of any specified substance or any ingredient added to or comprised in any stock food:”.
(6)
The said section 24 is hereby further amended—
(a)
By repealing paragraph (e) of subsection (2):
(b)
By omitting from paragraph (f) of subsection (2) the words “the percentages of the chemical components of any stock food”
, and substituting the words “the percentage, proportion, or amount of any specified substance added to or comprised in any stock food”
.
(7)
The principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing the First Schedule, and substituting the First Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Act.
4 Net weight of stock food to be indicated in invoices and labels
(1)
Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (c) of subsection (1) the words “gross weight”
, and substituting the words “net weight of the contents”
.
(2)
Section 5 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by omitting from paragraph (d) of subsection (1) the words “gross weight of each package”
, and substituting the words “net weight”
.
(3)
Section 7 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by omitting from paragraph (c) of subsection (1) the word “gross”
, and substituting the word “net”
.
5 Injurious ingredients in stock foods
(1)
The Second Schedule to the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following clause:
“4
All bone which is not sufficiently ground to enable it to be passed through a sieve having circular openings of a diameter of not more than one eighth of an inch or three millimetres or having not less than six square openings for each linear inch.”
(2)
Section 9 of the principal Act is hereby consequentially amended by inserting in subsection (2), after the words “in a proportion”
, the words “or condition”
.
6 Application of this Act
The amendments made by this Act shall have effect only in respect of stock foods manufactured, or imported into New Zealand, after the date of the commencement of this Act; and the principal Act shall continue to have effect in respect of stock foods manufactured, or imported into New Zealand, before that date as if this Act had not been passed.
Schedule NEW FIRST SCHEDULE TO PRINCIPAL ACT
Section 3(7)
“FIRST SCHEDULE “Particulars of Substances to be Contained In Invoice or Label
Section 5
| First Column | Second Column |
|---|---|
| Class of Stock Food | Particulars of Specified Substances Added to or Comprised in a Stock Food Required to be Shown in Invoices or Labels |
| “1. Any stock food consisting solely of whole or cracked grains, seeds, or pulses or solely of any mixture thereof. For the purposes of this item the term ‘cracked’ means broken into pieces that will not pass through a metal sieve perforated with round holes having a diameter of one-sixteenth of an inch. | None. |
| “2. Bran or pollard or any stock food which is the product of any one kind of grain, seed, or plant. | The maximum percentage of crude fibre. |
| “3. Meat meal, or meat and bone meal. |
(a)The minimum percentage of crude protein (allowing 1 percent of nitrogen as being equivalent to 6.25 percent of protein). (b)The maximum percentage of fat. (c)The maximum percentage of ash. (d)The maximum percentage of water. (e)The biochemical name and amount of any added antioxidant (the amount to be expressed in milligrammes per pound or grammes per ton). |
| “4. Animal fats (including tallow). | The biochemical name and amount of any added antioxidant (the amount to be expressed in milligrammes per pound or grammes per ton). |
| “5. Any feeding oil. |
(a)The minimum vitamin A content expressed in international units. (b)The minimum vitamin D content expressed in international units or, if the feeding oil is sold as being recommended for use as food for poultry, expressed in chick units. (c)The biochemical name and amount of any added antioxidant (the amount to be expressed in milligrammes per pound or grammes per ton). |
| “6. Fish meal. |
(a)The minimum percentage of crude protein (allowing 1 percent of nitrogen as being equivalent to 6.25 percent of protein). (b)The maximum percentage of sodium chloride (common salt). (c)The maximum percentage of crude fat. (d)The biochemical name and amount of any added antioxidant (the amount to be expressed in milligrammes per pound or grammes per ton). |
| “7. Manufactured poultry feeds. |
(a)The minimum percentage of crude protein (allowing 1 percent of nitrogen as equivalent to 6.25 percent of protein). (b)The maximum percentage of crude fat. (c)The maximum percentage of crude fibre. (d)The maximum percentage of sodium chloride (common salt). (e)The maximum amount of any added selenium expressed as parts per million of selenium. (f)The minimum amount of— (i)Added vitamins A and E expressed in international units per pound: (ii)Added vitamin D expressed in international chick units per pound: (iii)Added vitamin K, niacin, pantothenic acid, and riboflavin expressed as milligrammes per pound or grammes per ton. (g)The percentage of every added mineral. (h)The biochemical name and amount of any added antioxidant (the amount to be expressed in milligrammes per pound or grammes per ton). (i)The biochemical name and quantity of any added antibiotic (the amount to be expressed in milligrammes per pound or grammes per ton). |
| “8. Any stock food (including any mash) of a class not specified in any other provision of this Schedule. |
(a)The minimum percentage of crude protein (allowing 1 percent of nitrogen as being equivalent to 6.25 percent of protein). (b)The maximum percentage of crude fat. (c)The maximum percentage of crude fibre. (d)The maximum percentage of sodium chloride (common salt). (e)The percentage of every added mineral. (f)The maximum amount of any added selenium expressed as parts per million of selenium. (g)The biochemical name and amount of any added antioxidant (the amount to be expressed in milligrammes per pound or grammes per ton). (h)The biochemical name and amount of any added antibiotic (the amount to be expressed in milligrammes per pound or grammes per ton). |
Note—Every percentage is to be stated as a percentage by weight.”
This Act is administered in the Department of Agriculture.
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