STATUTORY RULES.
1961. No. 112.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT
1901-1960.*
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 1901-1960.
Dated this 9th day of
September, 1961.
DE
L’ISLE
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
Amendments
of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations.
First
Schedule.
1. The First
Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting
item 3.
Second
Schedule—Part 1.
2. The Second
Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting
items 9 and 10 of Part I.
Third
Schedule.
3. The Third
Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting
item 30.
Sixth
Schedule.
4. The Sixth
Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting
item 1.
Seventh
Schedule.
5. The Seventh
Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting
items 3 and 5.
Ninth
Schedule.
6.The Ninth Schedule to the Customs
(Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule
inserted in its 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 (other than beryllium windows for medical x-ray machines)
|
(2) Beryllium
alloys containing more than 50 per centum of beryllium by weight
|
(3) Beryllium
oxide and compounds |
2 | (1) Centrifuges— |
(a) that
are capable of the enrichment or separation of isotopes;
|
(b) that
have a peripheral speed of not less than 1,000 feet per second; and
|
(c) that
are wholly made of, or lined with, aluminium, nickel or an alloy containing
not less than 60 per centum of nickel
|
(2) Bowls for
centrifuges capable of the enrichment or separation of isotopes, being bowls
made of aluminium, nickel or an alloy containing not less than 60 per centum
of nickel
|
* Notified in
the Commonwealth Gazette on 11th September, 1961.
Statutory Rules 1958,
No. 5, as amended by Statutory Rules 1959, No. 5; and 1961, No. 16.
9742/60.—Price
3d. 10/6.7.1961.
Ninth
Schedule—continued.
Item
No. | Description
of Goods. |
3 | Compressors and
Blowers (turbo centrifugal and axial flow types) wholly made of, or lined
with, aluminium, nickel or an alloy containing not less than 60 per centum of
nickel and having a capacity of not less than 60 cubic feet per minute
|
4 | (1) Deuterium |
(2) Compounds,
mixtures and solutions containing deuterium in which the ratio of the number
of deuterium atoms to the number of hydrogen atoms exceeds 1:5,000
|
5 | Dosimeters
capable of measuring dosages exceeding 5 roentgens in one exposure, not being
dosimeters designed specially for use with medical radiation equipment
|
6 | Electrolytic
cells for the production of fluorine
|
7 | Equipment
specially designed for the separation of isotopes of uranium, of lithium or
of uranium and lithium
|
8 | Fissionable
materials, namely:—
|
(a) plutonium;
|
(b) uranium enriched in the isotope 235;
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(c) the isotope 233 of uranium;
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(d) irradiated uranium containing plutonium;
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(e) irradiated
thorium containing uranium 233 ;
|
(f) compounds,
alloys and mixtures of any of the foregoing materials
|
9 | (1) Fluorine |
(2) The
following fluorinated compounds:— |
(a) chlorine trifluoride;
|
(b) trichlorotrifluoroethane;
|
(c) dichlorotrifluoroethane;
|
(d) monochlorodifluoromethane
|
10 | Furnaces of the
vacuum induction type, designed to operate at pressures lower than 0.1
millimetres of mercury and at temperatures higher than 1,100 degrees
Centigrade
|
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;
|
(b) that has a boron content not exceeding
one part per million; and
|
(c) the total thermal neutron absorption
cross section of which does not exceed five millibarns per atom
|
12 | Heat exchangers
(tubular) and components for such heat exchangers (other than aluminium
tubing) designed to operate at pressures of not less than 300 pounds per
square inch and having flow contact surfaces made of any of the following
materials:—
|
(a) aluminium;
|
(b)
nickel;
|
(c) an
alloy containing not less than 60 per centum of nickel;
|
(d) titanium;
|
(e) zirconium
|
13 | Ion separators
that are—
|
(a) electro-magnetic; and
|
(b) of high sensitivity,
|
including—
|
(c) mass
spectrographs having analyser assemblies capable of handling uranium
hexafluoride;
|
(d) mass spectrometers having such analyser
assemblies;
|
(e) solid source mass spectrographs; and
|
(f)
solid source mass spectrometers
|
14 | (1) Lithium
metal |
(2) Lithium
alloys |
(3) Lithium
compounds |
Ninth
Schedule—continued.
Item No. | Description of Goods. |
15 | 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:—
|
(a)monazite
and monazite sands;
|
(b)ores
containing thorium (including uranothorianite); and
|
(c) ores
containing uranium (including pitchblende)
|
16 | Nickel in any
of the following forms:—
|
(a)nickel
wire containing not less than 95 per centum of nickel, being wire not
exceeding 0.10 millimetres in diameter;
|
(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;
|
(c)
nickel powder
|
17 | Nuclear
reactors
|
18 | Positive ion
sources suitable for use in mass spectrographs or mass spectrometers and
capable of handling uranium hexafluoride
|
19 | Refractory
materials, including crucibles, moulds and pouring rods, and comprising—
|
(a)not
less than 97 per centum of magnesium oxide;
|
(b)not
less than 97 per centum of beryllium oxide;
|
(c) not
less than 97 per centum of zirconium oxide; or
|
(d)zirconium
oxide thermally stabilized with calcium oxide or magnesium oxide or both
|
20 | Tetrafluoroethylene
(whether polymerized or not) and manufactures consisting wholly of
tetrafluoroethylene
|
21 | (1) Thorium
(wrought or unwrought) |
(2) Alloys,
mixtures and compounds containing thorium, but not including—
|
(a)alloys
containing less than 1.5 per centum of thorium by weight ; and
|
(b) medicinals
|
22 | Trifluorochloroethylene
(whether polymerized or not) and manufactures consisting wholly of
trifluorochloroethylene
|
23 | (1) Uranium,
natural (whether wrought or unwrought)
|
(2) Alloys,
mixtures and compounds containing natural uranium and having a uranium
content exceeding 0.05 per centum, but not including medicinals
|
24 | Valves with
bellows seal wholly made of, or lined with, aluminium, nickel or an alloy
containing not less than 60 per centum of nickel
|
25 | Zirconium, and
manufactures consisting wholly of zirconium—
|
(a) in
which the ratio of hafnium content to zirconium content is less than 1:500
parts by weight; and
|
(b) being—
|
(i) zirconium
metal;
|
(ii) alloys containing
more than 50 per centum by weight of zirconium; or
|
(iii) compounds
of zirconium.
|
Tenth
schedule.
7. The Tenth
Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended—
(a) by
omitting paragraphs (a) and (b)of item 1 and inserting
in their stead the following paragraph:—
“(a)
billets, blooms, ingots and slabs;”;
(b) by omitting paragraph (h) of that item;
(c) by
adding at the end of paragraph (i) of that item the word “and”; and
(d)by omitting
paragraphs (k) and (l) of that item.
By
Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.