Customs Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 9) (Cth)

Customs Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 9)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2009 No. 355

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901.

Dated 14 December 2009

QUENTIN BRYCE

Governor-General

By Her Excellency’s Command

BRENDAN O’CONNOR

Minister for Home Affairs

Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Customs Amendment Regulations 2009 (No. 9).

Commencement

These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

Amendment of Customs Regulations 1926

(1)Schedule 1 amends the Customs Regulations 1926.

(2)The amendments made by Schedule 1 apply in relation to the importation or exportation of an objectionable good (within the meaning given by subregulation 1A (1) of the Customs Regulations 1926) on or after the day these Regulations commence.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Subregulation 1A (1), after definition of appointed

insert

commercial quantity of objectionable goods means 25 or more objectionable goods.

[2] Subregulation 1A (1), after definition of international airport

insert

objectionable good means a good, including a publication, to which:

(a)regulation 3 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations 1958 applies; or

(b)regulation 4A of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 applies.

[3] After subregulation 179AA (3)

insert

(4)For item 22 of Part 1 of Schedule 1AA, the purposes are the following:

(a)selling the good;

(b)letting the good for hire;

(c)by way of trade, offering or exposing the good for sale or hire;

(d)distributing the good for the purpose of trade;

(e)exhibiting or displaying the good in public.

[4] Schedule 1AA, Part 1, after item 20

insert

21	A commercial quantity of objectionable goods
22	An objectionable good imported for a purpose mentioned in subregulation 179AA (4)

Note

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