CUSTOMS (PROHIBITED IMPORTS) REGULATIONS

REGULATION 4E   IMPORTATION OF GLAZED CERAMIC WARE  

4E(1)   [Prohibition]  

The importation into Australia of an article of glazed ceramic ware of a kind normally used for or in connection with the storage or consumption of food is prohibited if the article is an article of a kind specified in an item in Schedule 7 to these Regulations and, when tested with the prescribed solution in accordance with the method specified in that item (in column 3), releases to the solution lead or cadmium in an amount per volume of solution in excess of the amounts of lead and cadmium per volume of solution respectively specified in that item (in columns 4 and 5).

4E(2)   [Prescribed solution]  

For the purposes of subregulation (1), the prescribed solution is a solution consisting of four per centum by volume of glacial acetic acid in water, being water that conforms with British Standard 3978 published on 18 February 1966.