STATUTORY RULES.
1963. No. 130.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1963.*
I, THE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations
under the Customs Act 1901-1963.
Dated this sixth
day of December , 1963.
DE L’ISLE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Sgd. DENHAM HENTY
Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
Amendments of the Customs (Prohibited
Exports) Regulations.
Prohibition
against export except with approval of Department of Trade.
1. Regulation 12
of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed.
Second
Schedule.
2. Part One of
the Second Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended
by omitting item 8.
Third
Schedule.
3. The Third
Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by—
(a) inserting the following item—
“13
| Live pearl shell oysters”; and
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(b) omitting
item 20.
Sixth
Schedule.
4. The Sixth
Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting
item 3.
Ninth
and Tenth Schedules.
5. The Ninth
Schedule, and the Tenth Schedule, to the Customs (Prohibited Exports)
Regulations are repealed and the following Schedule is inserted in their stead:—
NINTH SCHEDULE. Reg.
11.
Goods the
Exportation of which is Prohibited unless the Approval of the Australian Atomic
Energy Commission is Produced to the Collector.
Item
No. | Description
of Goods. |
1 | (1) Beryllium metal and any goods made wholly of beryllium metal other than beryllium windows for
medical X-ray machines
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(2) Beryllium
alloys containing more than 50 per centum of beryllium by weight
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(3) Beryllium
oxide and beryllium compounds |
2 | Calcium
containing both less than one thousandth (0.001) per centum by weight of
boron and less than one hundredth (0.01) per centum by weight of impurities
other than magnesium and boron
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3 | Gas centrifuges
capable of the enrichment or separation of isotopes
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4 | Turbo,
centrifugal and axial flow compressors and blowers, having a capacity of not
less than 60 cubic feet per minute and wholly made of, or lined with,
aluminium, nickel or an alloy containing not less than 60 per centum of
nickel
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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 12th December ,1963.
Statutory Rules 1958, No. 5, as amended
by Statutory Rules 1959, No. 5; and 1961, Nos. 16 and 112.
10810/62.—Price
3d. 9/14.10.1963.
Ninth
Schedule—continued.
Item
No. | Description
of Goods. |
5 | (1) Deuterium |
(2) Compounds,
mixtures and solutions containing deuterium in which the ratio of the number
of deuterium atoms to hydrogen atoms exceeds 1 : 5,000
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6 | Dosimeters for
personal radiation monitoring capable of measuring·—
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(a) in
one exposure, a dosage of between 25 and 800 roentgens; or
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(b)dose rates of between one to 80
roentgens per hour,
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other than film dosimeters and
dosimeters designed specifically for use with medical radiation equipment
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7 | Electrolytic
cells specifically designed to produce more than 100 grammes of fluorine per
hour
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8 | Equipment
designed for the separation of isotopes of lithium, of uranium or of lithium
and uranium
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9 | (1) Fluorine |
(2) The
following fluorinated compounds:— |
(a)
chlorine trifluoride;
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(b)
trichlorotrifluoroethane;
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(c)
dichlorotetrafluoroethane
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10 | Fissionable
materials, namely:— |
(a) plutonium;
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(b)
uranium enriched in isotope 235;
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(c)
isotope 233 of uranium;
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(d) irradiated uranium containing plutonium;’
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(e) irradiated thorium containing uranium 233; and
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(f)
compounds, alloys and mixtures of any of the materials specified in this item
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11 | Graphite
(artificial)— |
(a)that is in the form of blocks or rods from
which a cube of 2 inches side or greater can be cut;
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(b) that
has a boron content not exceeding one part per million; and
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(c)the total thermal neutron absorption
cross section of which does not exceed five millibarns per atom
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12 | (1) Hafnium
metal |
(2) Alloys and
compounds containing more than 15 per centum of hafnium by weight
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13 | Heat exchangers
capable of being used in gaseous diffusion plants, designed to operate at
sub-atmospheric pressures, having a leak rate of less than 10−4 atmospheres per hour under a pressure differential
of one atmosphere, and the clad tubes of which are made of any of the
following materials:—
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(a) aluminium;
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(b) copper;
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(c)
nickel;
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(d)alloy containing more than 60 per
centum of nickel; or
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(e) a combination of two or more of the materials
specified in this item
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14 | Ion separatere that are— |
(a) electro-magnetic; and
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(b) of
high sensitivity,
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including—
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(c) mass
spectographs having analyser assemblies capable of handling uranium
hexafluoride;
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(d)mass spectrometers having such analyser
assemblies;
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(e) solid source mass spectrographs;
and
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(f) solid source mass spectrometers
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15 | (1) Lithium
metal |
(2) Lithium
alloys |
(3) Lithium compounds |
16 | Minerals, raw
and treated (including residues and tailings), containing more than 0.05 per
centum of uranium or thorium, singly or together, including the following
minerals:—
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(a) monazite and monazite sands;
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(b) ores containing thorium (including
uranothorianite); and
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(c) ores containing uranium (including
pitchblende)
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Ninth
Schedule—continued.
Item
No. | Description
of Goods. |
17 | Nickel in any of the following forms:— |
(a)wire containing not less than 95 per centum of
nickel, being wire not exceeding 0.10 millimetres in diameter;
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(b) woven wire mesh composed of wire containing not less
than 95 per centum of nickel and containing not less than 60 wires per linear
centimetre; and
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(c) nickel powder the particle size of which is less than
200 microns
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18 | (1) Nuclear reactors capable of operation so as to maintain a
controlled self-sustaining fission chain reaction
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(2) Major components of nuclear reactors including—
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(a) reactor vessels;
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(b) core support structures;
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(c) coolant pumps;
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(d) fuel element handling equipment;
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(e) heat exchangers; and
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(f) control rod drive mechanisms
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19 | Positive ion sources suitable for use in mass spectrographs and
mass spectrometers and capable of handling uranium hexafluoride
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20 | (1) Thorium (wrought or unwrought) |
(2) Alloys, mixtures and compounds containing thorium but
excluding—
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(a)alloys containing less than 1.5 per centum of
thorium by weight; and
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(b) medicinals
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21 | (1) Tritium |
(2) Compounds containing tritium in which the ratio of tritium to
hydrogen by atoms exceeds one part in 1,000
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22 | (1) Uranium, natural (wrought or unwrought) |
(2) Alloys, mixtures and compounds containing natural uranium
with an uranium content exceeding 0.05 per centum, but not including
medicinals
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23 | Valves— |
(a) that are 3 centimetres or greater in diameter with
bellows seal;
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(b) that are made of, or lined with, aluminium, nickel or
an alloy containing not less than 60 per centum of nickel;
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(c) that are either manually or automatically operated;
and
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(d) that have
other than metal to metal seats
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24 | Zirconium, and any goods made of zirconium— |
(a) in which the ratio of hafnium content to zirconium
content is less than 1 : 500 parts by weight; and
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(b) being—
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(i) zirconium metal;
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(ii) alloys containing more than 50 per centum by weight of
zirconium; or
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(iii) compounds of zirconium
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By
Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.