STATUTORY
RULES.
1953.
No. 13.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE
CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1952.*
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 1901-1952.
Dated this twentieth
day
of February ,1953.
W.J. McKell
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
(Sgd.) NEIL O’SULLIVAN
Minister of State for
Trade and Customs.
Amendments
of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations.
Third Schedule
1. The Third Schedule to
the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended—
(a)
by omitting items 6, 7 and 8;
(b)
by omitting item 10 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“10
| Meat, meat products and edible offal
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Commerce and Agriculture”:
|
(c)
by omitting items 21 and 33;
(d)
by omitting item 34 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“34
| Pancreas glands of cattle and pigs and
alcoholic extracts from pancreas glands of those animals
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Health”;
|
(e)
by omitting items 60, 63, 64, 66 and 67;
(f)
by omitting item 71 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“71
| Copper, and alloys of copper, in the
form of angles, bars, billets, cakes, castings, concentrates, hollows,
ingots, matte, ore, pipes, plates, rods, scrap, sections, sheets, strips,
tubes or wires
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
National Development”;
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*
Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,
195 .
Statutory Rules 1935, No. 2, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 4, 103
and 115; 1936, Nos. 27, 87, 103 and 141; 1937, No. 73; 1938, Nos. 61, 65 and
86; 1939, No. 170; 1940, No. 30; 1941, No. 136; 1942. No. 479; 1945, Nos. 87
and 149; 1946, Nos. 10, 53, 90, 106, 126, 138, 166, 178 and 179; 1947. Nos. 11,
35, 54, 80, 82, 95, 105, 116, 138 and 153; 1948, Nos. 6, 50, 105 and 120; 1949,
Nos. 3, 8, 16 and 113; 1950, No. 79; and 1951, Nos. 1, 43 and 122.
5287.—Price 5d. 9/19.12.1952.
(g)
by omitting item 85;
(h)
by omitting item 87 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“87
| Linseed.......................................
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Commerce and Agriculture”;
|
(i) by omitting items 88, 89 and 92;
(j)
by omitting items 93 and 93a and
inserting in their stead the following item:—
“93
| Raw jute, and goods manufactured wholly
or partly from jute
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Commerce and Agriculture”;
|
(k)
by omitting items 94, 97, 100, 103 and 105;
(l)
by omitting item 107 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“107
| Iron and steel (including cast iron and
malleable iron), and alloys of iron and steel, in any form, whether finished
or unfinished, including—
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
National Development”;
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Angles, beams, channels, columns,
girders, joists, pillars, piling, tees and other sections, bars, rods, billets,
blooms, ingots and slabs;
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Castings and forgings, including
railway wheels, axles and tyres;
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Hoops and strips, coated or uncoated;
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Pig iron;
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Pipes and tubes, coated or uncoated;
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Plates, coated or uncoated;
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Pressings, stampings and spinnings, other than finished articles;
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Rails (light or heavy), and accessories
for rails, including chains, crossings, dog spikes, fishplates, bolts for
fishplates, points, sleepers, soleplates and switches;
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Scrap, including alloy steel scrap;
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Sheet bar;
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Sheets, coated or uncoated;
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Spring steel;
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Wire rods;
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Wire, coated or uncoated, including
barbed wire, wire fabric, fencing wire, gauze and wire netting
|
(m)
by omitting item 109 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“109
| Hard fibreboard,
other than fibrous plaster
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of the
Interior”;
|
(n)
by omitting items 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 117, 118, 119, 125, 129, 131 and
132;
(o)
by omitting item 133a and
inserting in its stead the following item:—
“133A
| Engines for motor vehicles, and
automotive ball and roller bearings, wherever manufactured, and other spare
and component parts for motor vehicles, being parts manufactured in Canada or
in the United States of America
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Supply”;
|
(p)
by omitting items 134, 135 and 138;
(q)
by omitting item 142 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“142
| Aluminium, and alloys of aluminium, in
the form of ingots or sheets
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
National Development”;
|
(r)
by omitting items 143, 146, 148, 149, 151, 152, 153 and 156;
(s)
by omitting item 163 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“163
| Rubber tyres,
and rubber tubes, for grader and earth-moving equipment, and synthetic rubber
in any form
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Supply”;
|
(t)
by omitting items 165, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175 and 179;
(u)
by omitting item 180 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“180
| Fencing posts, and droppers, made of
iron or steel
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
National Development”;
|
(v)
by omitting item 181;
(w)
by omitting item 182 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“182
| Cattle hides, including skins of calves
and yearlings
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Commerce and Agriculture”;
|
(x)
by omitting items 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190 and 191;
(y)
by omitting items 192 and 193 and inserting in their stead the following
items:—
“192
| Margarine, other than margarine
produced from animal fat
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Commerce and Agriculture
|
“193
| Stainless
steel sinks ........................
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
National Development”;
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(z)
by omitting items 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 203, 205, 206, 207,
208, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214 and 215;
and
(za)
by adding at the end thereof the following items:—
“218
| Raw piezo electric quartz crystals,
crystal oscillator blanks and other articles manufactured from raw piezo
electric quartz crystal
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Defence Production
|
“219
| Diamonds, including diamonds forming a
part of other goods
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Defence Production
|
“220
| Sheep ............................................
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Commerce and Agriculture
|
“221
| Beer barrels made of iron or steel,
including stainless steel
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
National Development
|
“222
| Flax meal and
flax chaff .................
| The intending exporter shall produce to
the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of
Commerce and Agriculture”.
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Fourth Schedule.
2. The Fourth Schedule to
the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended—
(a)
by omitting items 5d, 7b, 7ba and
7c;
(b)
by omitting item 9 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“9
| Goods
shipped as ships’ stores”;
|
and
(c)
by omitting item 10a.
Sixth Schedule.
3. The Sixth Schedule to
the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting items 3 and
5.
Seventh Schedule.
4. The Seventh Schedule
to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting item 2
and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“2
| Liqueurs...
| United
Kingdom................................
| The alcoholic strength, as determined
by distillation, of a liqueur specified in the following table shall be not
less than a strength equal to the percentage of proof spirit specified
opposite to the liqueur in that table, or shall be within such margin of
tolerance of that strength as the Minister allows—
|
Advocaat .................
| 30 per centum
|
Cherry Brandy
.........
| 43 per centum
|
Crême de
Cacao, Crême de Café or Passion Fruit Liqueur ............
| 44 per centum
|
Apricot
Brandy, Blackberry Brandy, Crême de Cassia, Crême de Menthe, Maraschino or
Peach Brandy .......
| 50 per centum
|
Curaçao,
White or Orange .....................
| 55 per centum
|
Kümmel ..................
| 60 per centum
|
Benedictine,
Chartreuse, Cointreau, Grand Marnier or a similar type of liqueur
| 65 per centum
|
Any other
liqueur .....
| 50 per centum”.
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By
Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth
Government Printer, Canberra.