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

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 237

REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Customs Act 1901.

 Dated this thirty-first day of October 1979.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

WAL FIFE

Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs

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AMENDMENTS OF THE CUSTOMS (PROHIBITED

EXPORTS) REGULATIONS2

1The Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 13A the following regulation:

Prohibition against export of defence material except with consent of Minister for Productivity

“13B. (1) A reference in this regulation to an authorized person shall be read as a reference to a person authorized in writing by the Minister for Productivity to grant permission, for the purposes of these Regulations, to export from Australia goods specified in Schedule 13.

• “(2)

  The exportation from Australia of goods specified in, or included in a class of goods specified in, Schedule 13 is prohibited unless–

  • (a)

    a permission in writing to export the goods has been granted by the Minister for Productivity or an authorized person; and

  • (b)

    the permission is produced to the Collector.”.

2Second Schedule

 The Second Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended–

• (a)

  by omitting Part III; and

• (b)

  by omitting Item 1 of Part IV.

3Schedule 13

 After the Twelfth Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations the following Schedule is added:

SCHEDULE 13Regulation 13B

GOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS A PERMISSION TO EXPORT THE GOODS HAS BEEN GRANTED BY THE MINISTER FOR PRODUCTIVITY OR AN AUTHORIZED PERSON AND PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR

 

Column 1

Item

Column 2

Description of goods

1

Ammunition and cartridges

2

Appliances and equipment designed or adapted for use with goods specified in this Schedule

3

Armour plate designed for warlike purposes

4

Assault bridges

5

Barrage balloons

6

Bayonets

7

Cannon, guns, howitzers, mortars and other ordnance

8

Catapults and other equipment for launching aircraft from warships

9

Cryptographic and ancillary equipment designed or adapted for warlike purposes, including software for controlling or performing the functions of such equipment, being equipment of a kind that is designed or modified to ensure the secrecy of–

• (a)

  communications; or

• (b)

  the storage of information

10

Deceptive warfare appliances and equipment including–

• (a)

  dazzle and decoy devices; and

• (b)

  equipment designed or adapted for making smoke screens

11

Explosives, incendiary materials and chemical stabilizers

12

Factory and tool equipment designed or adapted for the production or maintenance of any of the goods specified in this Schedule

13

Firearms

14

Fire control, sighting and aiming appliances and equipment, including–

• (a)

  predictors;

• (b)

  plotting apparatus;

• (c)

  gun sights;

• (d)

  bomb sights;

• (e)

  fuse setters; and

• (f)

  equipment for the calibration of guns

15

Flame throwers

16

Fuses, detonators and other appliances designed or adapted for operating or exploding any arms or explosives specified in this Schedule

17

Biological, chemical and radioactive materials designed for the purpose of killing or incapacitating persons

18

Weapons or devices for the dissemination of the materials specified in Item17

19

Radiation weapons and decontamination appliances and equipment

20

Grenades, bombs, torpedoes, mines and depth charges, whether or not they are charged

21

Appliances and equipment designed or adapted for detecting, removing or destroying the arms and explosives described in Item 20

22

Gun mountings and gun frames, gun turrets, "blisters", bomb racks, torpedo carriers, torpedo tubes, and release appliances and equipment for bombs and torpedoes

23

Personal appliances and equipment designed or adapted for warlike purposes

24

Projectiles and missiles designed for warlike purposes

25

Radar equipment designed or adapted for warlike purposes

26

Rocket projectors, and appliances and equipment designed or adapted for launching or controlling–

• (a)

  rockets;

• (b)

  self-propelling missiles; or

• (c)

  guided missiles

27

Completed, or partly completed, spare or component parts–

• (a)

  for aircraft designed or adapted for warlike purposes; or

• (b)

  for any of the goods specified in this Schedule

28

Telecommunication and cypher appliances and equipment designed or adapted for warlike purposes

29

Electronic equipment designed or adapted to interfere with appliances or equipment referred to in Item 28

30

Towed target equipment and photographic equipment designed or adapted for warlike purposes

31

Training equipment designed or adapted for warlike purposes

32

Vehicles designed or adapted for warlike purposes, including–

• (a)

  amphibious vehicles;

• (b)

  tanks; and

• (c)

  armoured cars

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 7 November 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1958 No. 5 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 160 and see also