Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1987

No. 971

Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901.

Dated 29 May 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

John N. Button

Minister of State for

Industry, Technology and Commerce

Commencement

1. Regulations 3 and 6 shall come into operation on 1 June 1987.

Export of goods specified in Schedule 13

2. Regulation 13b of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting from subregulation (1) and paragraph (2) (a) “Support”.

Exportation of goods to Namibia or the Republic of South Africa

3. Regulation 13c of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by inserting “Namibia or” after “Australia to” in subregulations (1) and (2).

4. After regulation 13c of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

(S.R. 304/86)—Cat. No.  16/15.5.1987

Export of goods containing certain chemical compounds

“13d. (1) In this regulation:

‘authorised person’ means a person authorised in writing by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs to grant, for the purposes of this regulation, permission to export prescribed goods from Australia;

‘Chemical Abstracts Service number’, in relation to a chemical compound, means the registry number:

(a) assigned to that compound by the Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America; and

(b) published by that Service in the journal ‘Chemical Abstracts’;

‘prescribed goods’ means goods containing 10% or more, by weight, of a chemical compound, specified in column 2 in an item in Schedule 15, whose Chemical Abstracts Service number is specified in column 3 of that Schedule in that item.

“(2) The exportation from Australia of prescribed goods is prohibited unless.

(a) the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs or an authorised person grants permission in writing to export the goods; and

(b) that permission is produced to the Collector.

“(3) A permission granted under subregulation (2) may specify conditions, or requirements, to be complied with by the holder of the permission and may, in respect of any such condition or requirement, specify a time (being a time before or after the exportation of the goods to which the permission relates) at or before which the condition or requirement shall be complied with by the holder.

“(4) Where:

(a) a permission granted under subregulation (2) is subject to a condition, or requirement, to be complied with by a person; and

(b) the person fails to comply with the condition or requirement;

the Minister or an authorised person may revoke the permission whether or not the person is charged with an offence against subsection 112 (2b) of the Act in respect of the failure to comply with the condition or requirement.”.

Schedule 13

5. Schedule 13 to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting from the heading “SUPPORT”; and

(b) by omitting item 33.

Schedule 14

6. Schedule 14 to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by inserting in the heading “NAMIBIA OR” after “WHICH TO”.

Schedule 15

7. The Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations are amended by adding at the end the following Schedule:

SCHEDULE 15Subregulation 13d (1)

CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Chemical Abstracts
Item	Chemical compound.............................................................	Service number
1	dimethyl methyl phosphonate................................................	(756-79-6)
2	methyl phosphonyl difluoride................................................	(676-99-3)
3	methyl phosphonyl dichloride................................................	(676-97-1)
4	diethyl ethyl phosphonate......................................................	(78-38-6)
5	ethyl phosphonyl difluoride...................................................	(753-98-0)
6	ethyl phosphonyl dichloride...................................................	(1066-50-8)
7	methyl phosphinyl dichloride.................................................	(676-83-5)
8	ethyl phosphinyl dichloride....................................................	(1498-40-4)
9	dimethylamine......................................................................	(124-40-3)
10	dimethylamine hydrochloride................................................	(506-59-2)
11	diethyl-N, N-dimethylphosphoramidate..................................	(2404-03-7)
12	N, N-diisopropyl-β- amino ethanol..........................................	(96-80-0)
13	N, N-diisopropyl-β-aminoethane thiol....................................	(5842-07-9)
14	N, N-diisopropy-β-aminoethyl chloride..................................	(96-79-7)
15	O-ethyl-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methylphosphonite..............	(57856-11-8)
16	phosphorus trichloride...........................................................	(7719-12-2)
17	phosphorus oxychloride.........................................................	(10025-87-3)
18	dimethyl phosphite................................................................	(868-85-9)
19	trimethyl phosphite...............................................................	(121-45-9)
20	diethyl phosphite...................................................................	(762-04-9)
21	triethyl phosphite..................................................................	(122-52-1)
22	pinacolyl alchohol.................................................................	(464-07-3)
23	thiodiglycol..........................................................................	(111-48-8)
24	thionyl chloride.....................................................................	(7719-09-7)
25	2-chloroethanol.....................................................................	(107-07-3)
26	hydrogen fluoride..................................................................	(7664-39-3)
27	potassium fluoride................................................................	(7789-23-3)
28	methyl benzilate....................................................................	(76-89-1)
29	3-quinuclidinol.....................................................................	(1619-34-7)
30	3-hydroxy-l-methylpiperidine................................................	(3554-74-3)

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 May 1987.

2. Statutory Rules 1958 No. 5 as amended by 1959 No. 5; 1961 Nos. 16 and 112; 1963 Nos. 129 and 130; 1964 No. 144; 1965 No. 136; 1966 Nos. 70 and 75; 1967 Nos. 42. 59 and 123; 1968 Nos. 46, 83, 101, 153, 160 and 162; 1969 Nos. 11, 21, 22 and 219; 1970 Nos. 34, 68, 89, 106 and 121; 1972 No. 210; 1973 Nos. 4, 7, 39, 74, 102, 138, 218 and 248; 1974 Nos. 46, 157, 178 and 250; 1975 Nos. 19, 44, 45, 173 and 224; 1976 Nos. 169 and 233; 1977 No. 89; 1978 Nos. 14, 58, 59 and 277; 1979 Nos. 160 and 237; 1980 Nos. 21, 61, 72, 76, 82, 99, 110, 212, 273, 358, 381 and 383; 1981 Nos. 49, 72, 86, 149, 225, 251 and 324; 1982 Nos. 169, 171 and 310; 1983 No. 272; 1984 Nos. 35, 63, 191, 262, 263 and 316; 1985 Nos. 1, 68, 138 and 378; 1986 Nos. 76, 89, 177, 178, 328, 364, 365, 366 and 388.

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