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

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 61

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 seventeenth day of March 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 5 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Prohibition of export of unmanufactured shorn wool

• “5A.

  (1) In this regulation—

‘authorized officer’ means an officer of the Department of Primary Industry authorized in writing by the Minister to give permission, for the purpose of sub-regulation (3), for the exportation from Australia of goods to which this regulation applies;

‘Minister’ means the Minister of State for Primary Industry.

• “(2)

  This regulation applies to goods that consist of wool that has been shorn from a sheep or a lamb, being wool that has not been subjected to any process of manufacture.

• “(3)

  The exportation from Australia of goods to which this regulation applies is prohibited unless—

  • (a)

    there is in force under sub-regulation (4) an approval of the export of the goods; or

  • (b)

    the permission in writing of the Minister or an authorized officer for the exportation of the goods is produced to the Collector.

• “(4)

  The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, approve the exportation from Australia of goods to which this regulation applies.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 18 March 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