Margarine Amendment Act 1980
Margarine Amendment Act 1980
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Margarine Amendment Act 1980
Margarine Amendment Act 1980
Public Act |
1980 No 120 |
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Date of assent |
22 December 1980 |
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An Act to amend the Margarine Act 1908
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
This Act may be cited as the Margarine Amendment Act 1980, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Margarine Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Illegal acts
(1)
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 4 (as substituted by section 2(1) of the Margarine Amendment Act 1978), and substituting the following section:
“4
“(1)
No person shall—
“(a)
Mix, colour, stain, or powder, margarine (other than polyunsaturated margarine) with any other ingredient or material, so as to imitate butter; or
“(b)
Manufacture, sell, or offer for sale, as butter any margarine or other substance containing, or with which there is mixed, any animal fats, animal or vegetable oils, or extraneous dairy produce; or
“(c)
Export, or attempt to export, margarine unless it is distinctly shipped and invoiced as margarine; or
“(d)
Mix margarine (other than polyunsaturated margarine) with dairy produce.
“(2)
Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the Minister of Agriculture may, upon and subject to such terms and conditions as he thinks fit, authorise any person—
“(a)
To mix margarine with dairy produce; or
“(b)
To add to margarine intended for export any dairy produce, colouring, or flavouring;—
and in that case that person may act accordingly.
“(3)
Nothing in this Act shall make it unlawful to include milk fat in polyunsaturated margarine.”
(2)
Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby consequentially amended by repealing the definition of the term “butterfat”
, and substituting the following definition:
“‘Dairy produce’ has the same meaning as in the Dairy Industry Act 1952:”.
(3)
The Margarine Amendment Act 1978 is hereby consequentially repealed.
3 Metrication
The principal Act is hereby amended—
(a)
By omitting from section 5 the words “one and a half inches”
, and substituting the expression “35 mm”
; and
(b)
By omitting from section 7(1) the words “a quarter of an inch”
, and substituting the expression “6 mm”
.
This Act is administered in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
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