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

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 110

REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 19011

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

 Dated this twenty-second day of May 1980.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

R. V. GARLAND

Minister of State for Business

and Consumer Affairs

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AMENDMENT OF THE CUSTOMS (PROHIBITED EXPORTS)

REGULATIONS2

 After regulation 6A of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Prohibition of export of goods to Iran

“6B. (1) The exportation of goods, other than prescribed goods, from Australia to Iran is prohibited.

• “(2)

  The exportation of prescribed goods from Australia to Iran is prohibited unless the Minister has, by instrument in writing, consented to the exportation of the goods to that country and the instrument is produced to the Collector.

• “(3)

  In this regulation, ‘prescribed goods’ means any of the following goods:

  • (a)

    livestock;

  • (b)

    grain;

  • (c)

    foodstuffs;

  • (d)

    medical supplies.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 May 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1958 No. 5 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1980 No. 21 and see also