STATUTORY RULES.
1956. No. 53.
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 fifteenth day of June, 1956.
W. J.
SLIM
Governor-General.
By His Excellency's Command,
(Sgd.) F. M. Osborne
Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
AMENDMENTS OF THE CUSTOMS (PROHIBITED EXPORTS)
REGULATIONS.
Prohibition
against export except with approval of Department of Shipping and Transport.
1. Regulation
7 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed.
2. After
regulation 13 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations the following
regulation is inserted:—
Prohibition
against export except with approval of Australian Atomic Energy Commission.
“13A. The
exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Twelfth Schedule is
prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued
by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is produced to the Collector.”.
Repeal.
3. Regulation
15 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed.
First
Schedule.
4. The
First Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended—
(a)by inserting after item 5 the following
item:—
“5A | Maize contained
in second-hand bags”;
and
(b) by omitting item 7.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on
, 1956.
Statutory Rules 1953, No. 85, as amended by Statutory Rules 1954, Nos. 76 and 98.
2499/55.—PRICE 3D. 9/22.2.1956.
Second
Schedule, Part I.
5. Part
I. of the Second Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is
amended—
(a) by
inserting alter item 11 the following item:—
“11A
| Machinery manufactured or partly
manufactured in the United States of America or in Canada, and of the
following kinds, namely, agricultural machinery, tractors and earthmoving
equipment”;
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(b)by
inserting after item 12 the following item:—
"12A
| Motor trucks (including utilities on
commercial chassis) manufactured or partly manufactured in the United States
of America or in Canada”;
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and
(c)
by omitting item
19.
Third
Schedule.
6. The
Third Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting item
1 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“1
| Agricultural machinery of the following
kinds (and parts for machinery of those kinds), namely, header harvesters and
reaper threshers manufactured in Australia”;
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(b) by
omitting item 9;
(c)
by omitting from
item 14 the words “and flax chaff”;
(d) by omitting item
17;
(e)
by omitting item 21 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“21
| Meat (other than canned meat) of the
following kinds, namely, beef, veal, mutton and lamb, and edible offal of
cattle and sheep”;
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and
(f)
by inserting after item 30 the following item:—
"30A
| Stockfoods and animal and poultry meals or mashes
containing one or more of the following, namely, bran, pollard, blood meal,
fish meal, liver meal, flax meal, meat meal, meat and bone meal, oilseed
meal, rice meal and wheat meal”.
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Fourth
Schedule.
7. The
Fourth Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by
omitting item 1.
Fifth
Schedule,
8. The
Fifth Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed.
Seventh
Schedule.
9. The
Seventh Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by
omitting items 1, 2 and 6.
Eighth
Schedule.
10. The Eighth Schedule to the Customs
(Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
and 6 and inserting in their stead the following items:—
“1
| Mica
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2
| Tinplate in sheets”.
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Ninth
Schedule
11. The Ninth Schedule to the Customs
(Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended—
(a)
by omitting item 2 and inserting in its stead the following
item:—
“2
| Beryllium metal, alloys and compounds,
ores and concentrates”;
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(b)by
inserting after item 2 the following item:—
“2A
| Commercial ores and concentrates of
tantalum and columbium”;
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(c)
by omitting item 4 and inserting in its stead the following
item:—
“4
| (1.) Crude or partly refined mineral sands
containing zircon, rutile, ilmenite or monazite
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(2.) Concentrates of zircon, rutile or
ilmenite containing monazite”;
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(d)by
omitting paragraph (b) of item 6;
(e)by
omitting paragraph (i)of item 6 and inserting in its stead the
following paragraph:—
"(i)rails
(light or heavy) and sleepers;";
(f)
by inserting after item 6 the following item:—
“6A
| Lithium
ores and concentrates”;
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and
(g)by
omitting items 8 to 17
(both inclusive) and inserting in their stead the following items:—
“8
| Ores and concentrates of monazite and
other thorium bearing minerals
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9
| Portland cement
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10
| Tantalum and columbium metals and
tantalum and columbium alloys in the form of plates, bars, strips and powders
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11
| Tantalum and columbium oxides and
tantalum and columbium salts
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12
| Wires and cables for the conduction of
electricity”.
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Twelfth
Schedule.
12. The Twelfth Schedule to the Customs
(Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule
inserted in its stead:—
TWELFTH SCHEDULE.
Reg. 13Ä.
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 | Accelerating machines, and magnets
specifically designed for use in or with those machines, capable of imparting
energies in excess of 1,000,000 electron volts to a nuclear particle or
an ion
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2 | Acceleration tubes capable of being
used in mass spectrographs and mass spectrometers
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3 | Artificial graphite in the form of
blocks or rods from which a cube of 2 inches side or greater can be cut and
having a boron content of one part per million or less
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4 | Bismuth metal and its derivatives
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5 | (1.) Centrifuges with a peripheral speed of 305 metres per second or more, wholly made
of, or lined with, aluminium or nickel or an alloy containing 60 per centum or more of nickel
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(2.) Centrifugal bowls made of aluminium or
nickel or an alloy containing 60 per centum or more of nickel
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TWELFTH SCHEDULE—continued.
Item No. | Description of Goods. |
6 | (1.) Cerium and any of the other rare
earth metals
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(2.) Alloys, compounds and mixtures
which contain cerium or any of the other rare earth metals
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7 | (1.) Deuterium
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(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
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8 | Electromagnetic ion separators
including mass spectrographs, and mass spectrometers, capable of use for any
purpose
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9 | Equipment capable of being used for the
separation of isotopes of uranium
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10 | (1.) Ferro uranium
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(2.) Mixtures containing ferro uranium
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11 | Focusing tubes capable of being used in
mass spectrographs and mass spectrometers
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12 | Leak detecting instruments of the mass
spectrometer type
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13 | Lithium metal and alloys
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14 | (1.) Mesothorium
compounds
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(2.) Mixtures containing mesothorium compounds
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15 | Minerals, raw or treated (including
residues and tailings) which contain by weight at least 0.05 per centum of
uranium or thorium or uranium and thorium
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16 | Nuclear radiation detection instruments
and components for those instruments other than—
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(a)photographic film or equipment
containing that film; and |
(b)
medical X-ray equipment |
17 | (1.) Plutonium or uranium enriched in
the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235
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(2.) Material artificially enriched by
either the isotope 233 or the isotope 235 and any other fissionable materials
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18 | Positive ion sources capable of being
used in accelerating machines or mass spectrometers
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19 | (1.) Radium
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(2.) Mixtures containing radium
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20 | Refractory materials containing 95 per
centum or more by weight of—
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(a) zirconia;
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(b) beryllium;
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(c) sintered alumina and
magnesia;
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(d) fused alumina and fused magnesia; or
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(e) any two or more of the
compounds specified in the last four preceding paragraphs
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21 | (1.) Thorium
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(2.) Thorium compounds
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(3.) Mixtures containing thorium or its
compounds
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22 | (1.) Uranium
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(2.) Uranium compounds
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(3.) Mixtures containing uranium or its
compounds
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23 | Vacuum diffusion pumps having an
internal diameter at the inlet jet of 305 millimetres or greater or capable
of a pumping speed in excess of 1,500 litres per second at a pressure of less
than 0.0001 millimetres of mercury
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24 | Zirconium metal, alloys and compounds
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By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.