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(b.) In the case of compounded, mixed, or blended foods, words which indicate that the contents are compounded, mixed, or blended, together with the words “imitation,” “compound,” or “blend,” as the case may require :

(c.) A statement of the net weight or volume, or of the true number, of the contents of any package, and any necessary statement regarding grade or quality. Unless otherwise specified, the statements required by this paragraph shall appear together in the principal label within a panel having a light-coloured ground in bold-faced sans-serif capital types of not less than six points face measurement :

(d.) The name and address of the manufacturer of the article or of the seller thereof, or of the owner of the rights of manufacture, or of the agent of any of them :

(e.) Such other particulars as are required by the regulations in Part II hereof to be given in the case of any particular article :

(f.) Such other particulars as the manufacturer or the seller, or the agent of either of them, desires to add.

(2.) No descriptive matter written on or attached to a package which contains any food shall include any comment on, reference to, or explanation of any statement or label required by these regulations to be written on or attached to any such package if such comment, reference, or explanation directly or by implication contradicts, qualifies, or modifies any such statement or the contents of such label.

(3.) Where any article of food is sold by weight or measure, otherwise than in a package which is capable of being labelled as required by these regulations, the person selling the same shall, if required so to do by the Chief Health Officer, keep conspicuously attached to every container or vessel in which such food is stored immediately prior to sale a statement or label containing the information required by paragraphs (a), (b), (d), and (e) of subclause 1 of this regulation in the case of articles which are sold in packages, and written in black doric capital letters of not less than forty-eight points face measurement.

Use of the Word “Pure.”

3. No label which describes any article of food shall include the word “pure,” or any word of the same significance, unless the article is of the prescribed composition, strength, purity, or quality, and unless it is free from added foreign substances.

Prescribed Size of Types.

4. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these regulations, words required to be written in types of size of not less than six points face measurement may be written in types of proportionately reduced size when the package containing a food or drug for sale is so small as to prevent the use of types of the prescribed size.

Statement of Weight or Volume.

5. The statement of the weight or volume of the contents of any package required to be stated in pursuance of paragraph (c) of Regulation 2 hereof shall be expressed in the following way, namely :—

(1.) In the case of every package of solid food which contains a less quantity than fourteen pounds weight—in pounds, ounces, &c.

(2.) In the case of every package of liquid food which contains a less quantity than one gallon—in quarts or pints, ounces, &c.

Permitted Variation from Stated Weight or Volume.

6. A variation from the stated weight or volume of any package, not exceeding five parts per centum, shall be permitted if the weight or volume of six packages of the same description and brand when weighed or measured together is found to be of or above the stated weight or volume.

Exemptions from certain Labelling Provisions.

7. The Chief Health Officer may, on application in that behalf by the manufacturer, or the seller, or the owner of the rights of manufacture, or the duly authorized agent of any of them, exempt any article from the requirements of paragraph (d) of Regulation 2 hereof, subject to the following conditions :—

(a.) The goods in respect of which exemption is sought shall bear a trade-mark duly registered in New Zealand.

(b.) The application shall be accompanied (1) by evidence that the applicant (if not a principal) is duly authorized to apply by his principal; (2) by a certified copy of the entry in the Register of Trade-marks relating to the said article; and (3) by a declaration that the registered name and address are the present name and address of the proprietor of the trade-mark.

(c.) The application shall further be accompanied by a signed list of the kinds or descriptions of articles to which the trade-mark may be applied.

(d.) Exemption granted under this regulation shall cease and determine upon assignment or transmission of the trade-mark by the registered proprietor thereof, or upon the registered address ceasing to be the address of the proprietor, unless notice of the assignment, transmission, or change of address is first given to the Chief Health Officer and approved by him.

8. Packages of the foods named or indicated hereunder shall be exempt from the provisions of Regulation 2 hereof.

(1.) Simple or uncompounded food substances weighed, counted, or measured in the presence of the purchaser.

(2.) Bread.

(3.) Food substances (except tea, coffee, cocoa, and preparations of cocoa, and coffee-mixture) in unsealed packages, packed on retail grocers’ premises for ready sale thereon.

(4.) Meat (not including hams, or meat enclosed in tins or other hermetically sealed packages).

Exemptions from Statement of Trade Description and Measure of Contents.

9. Packages of the foods named or indicated hereunder shall be exempt from such of the provisions of Regulation 2 hereof as require information by an accompanying or attached label or statement as to the name, trade-name, or description, and as to the weight or number or volume of the contents.

(1.) Brewed ginger-beer.

(2.) Lemonade.

(3.) Ginger-ale.

Exemptions from Statement of Weight.

10. Packages of the foods named or indicated hereunder, and packed or enclosed as herein specified, shall be exempt from such of the provisions of Regulation 2 as require information, by an accompanying or attached label or statement as to the weight or number or volume of the contents :—

Aerated waters.

Alcoholic liquors which are subject to Customs or excise duty.

Anchovies.

Calves-feet jelly in tins or bottles.

Capers in bottles.

Cheeses marked with a statement of weight, followed by the words “when packed.”

Chutney in bottles.

Confectionery in fancy boxes.

Cordials and syrups, artificial cordials and syrups, compound cordials.

Curry-powder in bottles.

Custard-powders.

Dried culinary herbs.

Dried codfish in blocks.

Dried figs.

Fish in tins.

Flour in bags of twenty-five pounds weight and over.

Fruits in bottles.

Ginger in jars or in fancy packages.

Ginger-beer powders and other beverage-powders.

Hams marked with a statement of weight, followed by the words “when packed.”

Hops in packets not exceeding one pound in weight.

Infants’ foods.

Jelly-crystals, blanc-mange powders, and other food substances sold with directions to dilute to a definite amount or to taste, condensed milks excepted.

New Zealand wines.

Ox-tongues.

Pickles in bottles.

Pop-corn.

Potted meat and meat pastes.

Rennet.

Salt in tins or bottles.

Salt-substitutes in tins or bottles.

Sauces.

Soup in packets.

Soup sausages.

Vegetables, preserved, in bottles.

Food substances supplied in bulk for resale.