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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 128

Introduction of Meat and of Meat Products into the United States of America.—Notice No. 1763.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1914.

THE following regulations, issued 30th July, 1914 (B.A.I. Order 211),
by the Department of Agriculture, Washington, governing the introduction of meat and of meat products into the United States of America
are published for general information. The regulations come into force on
the 1st January, 1915.

Intending shippers of meat or meat products to the United States may
address inquiries to the Director of the Live-stock and Meat Division, Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, Wellington, who will
give details of arrangements made by the Department to meet the requirements of the following regulations.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

REGULATIONS.

REGULATION 1.—DEFINITIONS.

SECTION 1. For the purposes of these regulations the following words,
phrases, names, and terms shall be construed respectively to mean—

Paragraph 1. The Meat Inspection Act, or Act of 30th June, 1906, or
Act of Congress of 30th June, 1906: “An Act making Appropriations
for the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year ending June thirtieth,
Nineteen hundred and seven,” approved 30th June, 1906 (34 United States
Statutes at Large, pages 674 to 679), as re-enacted by “An Act making
Appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the Fiscal Year ending
June thirtieth, Nineteen hundred and eight,” approved 4th March, 1907
(34 United States Statutes at Large, pages 1260 to 1265).

Paragraph 2. The Imported Meat Act: The “free list” clause and
paragraph 545 of an Act entitled “An Act to reduce Tariff Duties and
to provide Revenue for the Government, and for other Purposes,” approved
3rd October, 1913 (38 United States Statutes at Large, pages 114, 152,
159).

Paragraph 3. The Food and Drugs Act: “An Act for preventing the
Manufacture, Sale, or Transportation of Adulterated or Misbranded or
Poisonous or Deleterious Foods, Drugs, Medicines, and Liquors, and for
regulating Traffic therein, and for other Purposes,” approved 30th June,
1906 (34 United States Statutes at Large, pages 768 to 772), as amended
by “An Act to amend Section Eight of the Food and Drugs Act approved
June thirtieth, Nineteen hundred and six,” approved 23rd August, 1912
(37 United States Statutes at Large, pages 416 and 417), and by “An Act
to amend Section Eight of an Act entitled ‘An Act for preventing the
Manufacture, Sale, or Transportation of Adulterated or Misbranded or
Poisonous or Deleterious Foods, Drugs, Medicines, and Liquors, and for
regulating Traffic therein, and for other Purposes,’ approved June thirtieth,
Nineteen hundred and six,” approved 3rd March, 1913 (37 United States
Statutes at Large, page 732).

Paragraph 4. The Department: The United States Department of
Agriculture.

Paragraph 5. Bureau: The Bureau of Animal Industry of the United
States Department of Agriculture.

Paragraph 6. Inspector: An Inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry.

Paragraph 7. Bureau employees: Inspectors and all other individuals
employed in the Bureau of Animal Industry who are authorized by the
Chief of Bureau to do any work or perform any duty in connection with
meat-inspection.

Paragraph 8. Official establishment: Any slaughtering, meat canning,
curing, smoking, salting, packing, rendering, or other similar establishment
at which inspection is maintained under these regulations.

Paragraph 9. Official station: One or more official establishments
included under a single supervision.

Paragraph 10. “Inspected and passed,” or “U.S. inspected and
passed,” or “U.S. inspected and passed under the Act of Congress
of June 30, 1906,” or “U.S. inspected and passed by Department
of Agriculture,” or any authorized abbreviations thereof: That the
carcases, parts of carcases, meat, meat products, or meat food products