STATUTORY RULES.
1956. No. 82.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1954.*
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 1901-1954.
Dated this twentieth
day of November, 1956.
W. J. Slim
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
Amendments
of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations.
1. After regulation 13a of the Customs (Prohibited Exports)
Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Prohibition against export except with approval of
Department of Trade.
“13b.
The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Thirteenth
Schedule is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the
goods issued by the Department of Trade is produced to the Collector.”.
Ninth Schedule.
2. The Ninth Schedule to the Customs
(Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting items 6, 9 and 12.
Thirteenth Schedule.
3. After the Twelfth Schedule to the
Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations the following Schedule is added:—
Thirteenth Schedule. Reg. 13b.
GOODS THE EXPORTATION
OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE APPROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE IS
PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR.
Item
No. | Description
of Goods. |
1 | Iron and steel (including cast iron and
malleable iron), and alloys of iron and steel in any form, whether finished
or unfinished, including—
|
(a) angles, beams, channels,
columns, girders, joists, pillars, piling, tees and other sections, bars,
rods, billets, blooms, ingots and slabs;
|
(b) fencing posts and droppers; |
(c) hoops and strips, coated or uncoated; |
(d)pig
iron; |
(e) pipes and tubes, coated or uncoated; |
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette, on ,
1956.
Statutory Rules 1953, No. 85, as
amended by Statutory Rules 1954, Nos. 76 and 98; and 1956, No. 58.
6685/56.—Price 3d. 9/15.11.1956.
Thirteenth Schedule—continued.
Item
No. | Description
of Goods. |
1—cont’d. | Iron and steel, &$$c.—continued. |
(f) pit props and stays; |
(g) plates, coated or uncoated; |
(h) pressings, stampings and spinnings, other than finished articles; |
(i) rails, and manufactured goods the main components of
which are rails or parts of rails; accessories for rails, including chains,
crossings, dog spikes, fishplates, bolts for fishplates, points, sleepers,
soleplates and switches;
|
(j) scrap, including manufactured goods which are no longer
capable of effective use for the purpose for which they were manufactured or
which an officer authorized by the Minister of State for Trade to issue
certificates for the purposes of this item has certified to be, in his
opinion, goods which, if not exported, would be $$unlikley
to be used except as scrap;
|
(k) sheet bar; |
(i) sheets, coated or uncoated; |
(m) spring steel; |
(n) telegraph and
telephone posts, including cross-arms; |
(o)used,
deteriorated or obsolete goods of the following kinds, namely, axles, bogies,
boilers, compressors, cranes, die blocks, engines and engine blocks, lathes,
presses, pumps, tyres and wheels;
|
(p)wire, coated
or uncoated, including barbed wire, wire fabric, fencing wire, gauze and wire
netting; and
|
(q) wire rods |
2 | Portland cement |
3 | Wires and cables for the conduction of electricity |
By Authority: A. J. Arthur,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.