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

STATUTORY RULES.

1938. No. 65.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1936.*

WHEREAS by section 112 of the Customs Act 1901-1936 it is provided that the Governor-General may, by regulation, prohibit the exportation of any goods the exportation of which would, in his opinion, be harmful to the Commonwealth:

And whereas it is provided by the said section that the said power of prohibition shall extend to authorize the prohibition of the exportation of the goods generally, or to any specified place, and either absolutely or so as to allow of the exportation of the goods subject to any condition or restriction:

And whereas it is provided by section 17 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901-1937 that the expression “the Governor-General” in any Act includes the person for the time being administering the Government, of the Commonwealth, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council:

And whereas I am of opinion that, except as provided by regulation 3 of the Regulations hereunder, the exportation of iron ore would, be harmful to the Commonwealth:

And whereas I am of the opinion that the exportation of iron ore to which the said regulation applies, except subject to the conditions and restrictions prescribed by the said regulation, would be harmful to the Commonwealth :

Now therefore I, the Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901-1936.

Dated this Twenty-Seventh day of June, 1938.

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Acting Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations.  

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of July, 1938.

Second Schedule.

2. The Second Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by inserting after item 2 the following item :—

“ 2a. │ Iron ore.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1938.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 2. as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 4, 103 and 115 ; 1936, Nos. 27, 87, 103 and 141; 1937, No. 73; and 1938, No. 61.

3362.—13/23.6.1938.—Price 3d.

 

Exportation of certain iron ore may be permitted.

3. Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding regulation, where the Minister is satisfied—

(a) that any person or persons had, prior to the nineteenth day of May, 1938, entered into a contract or contracts to export iron ore from the Commonwealth;

(b) that part only of the iron ore which each such person was required to export, in pursuance of the contract, was exported prior to the first day of July, 1938; and

(c) that the remainder of the iron ore required to be exported in pursuance of all such contracts does not exceed 150,000 tons,

the Minister may permit the exportation of the remainder of the iron ore not later than the thirty-first day of December, 1938, provided that that remainder does not exceed 150,000 tons.

 

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