Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1938. No. 19.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1933 AND THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1936.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1933 and the Customs Act 1901-1936.

Dated this third day of February, 1938.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Commerce and the Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendments of the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations.  

Notice of intention to export and declaration.

1. Regulation 32 of the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “give written notice, after the goods have been delivered to an appointed place,” and inserting in their stead the words “furnish to the Department, after the goods have been delivered to an appointed place, a notice and declaration in writing”.

Repeal of regulation. 33.

2. Regulation 33 of the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations is repealed.

3. After regulation 64 of the Commerce (Export Dairy Produce) Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:—

False declarations.

“65.—(1.) A person shall not make any false or misleading statement in any declaration furnished in pursuance of these Regulations.

Penalty: Fifty pounds.

(2.) In any proceedings for an offence against sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, a certificate signed by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Department of Commerce certifying that the declaration was furnished in pursuance of these Regulations, and was made by the person by whom it purports to have been made, shall be prima facie evidence of the matters certified to.

(3.) Judicial notice shall be taken of the signature to any certificate made under sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation and of the fact that the person whose signature it purports to bear holds, or has held, the office of Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Department of Commerce.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on February, 1938

  Statutory Rules 1930, No. 132, as amended by Statutory Rules 1931. Nos. 82, 106 and 125; 1932, No. 77; 1933, Nos. 38 and 40; 1934, Nos. 6, 56 and 98; 1935, Nos. 65 and 132; 1936, Nos. 66, 85 and 149; and 1937, Nos. 4, 57 and 115.

   

By Authority: L. F. Johnson, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.