STATUTORY RULES.
1951. No. 43.
REGULATIONS
UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1950.*
WHEREAS by
section 112 of the Customs Act 1901-1950 it is provided that the
Governor-General may, by regulation, prohibit the exportation of any goods
being arms, explosives, military stores, or naval stores, or goods which, in
his opinion, are capable of being used as or in the manufacture of arms,
explosives, military stores, or naval stores, or for any purpose of war :
And whereas
it is provided by the said section that the said power of prohibition shall
extend to authorize the prohibition of the exportation of goods generally, or
to any specified place, and either absolutely or so as to allow the exportation
of the goods subject to any condition or restriction :
And whereas
I am of the opinion that the goods specified in Part II. of the First Schedule
to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations, as amended by these
Regulations, are capable of being used for purposes of war :
Now,
therefore, 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 1901-1950.
Dated this sixteenth
day of May, 1951.
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.
1. Regulation 4 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is
repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—
Export of arms, &c.,
prohibited except with consent of the Minister.
" 4.—(1.)
The exportation of—
(a) the arms, explosives, military stores, and naval stores
specified in Part I. of the First Schedule ; and
(b) the goods, being goods which in the opinion of the
Governor-General are capable of being used for purposes of war, specified in
Part II. of that Schedule,
*Notified
in the Commonwealth Gazette on ,
1951.
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, Nov. 11, 35, 54, 80, 82, 93, 105, 116, 138 and 153 ;
1948, Nos. 6, 50, 105 and 120 ; 1949, Nos. 3, 8, 16 and 113 ; and 1950, No. 79.
1224.—price 3d. 9/5.3.1951.
shall be
prohibited, unless the consent in writing of the Minister to the exportation of
the goods has first been obtained.
" (2.)
The provisions of this regulation and of the First Schedule are in addition to
and not in derogation of any other law relating to the exportation of the goods
specified in that Schedule.".
First Schedule.
2. The First Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports)
Regulations is repealed and the following schedule inserted in its stead:
THE FIRST SCHEDULE.
part i.
Arms, Explosives, Military Stores and Naval Stores the Exportation
of which, is Prohibited unless the Consent of the Minister has first been
Obtained.
Item No. | Kind or Description of Goods. |
1 | Ammunition and cartridges. |
2 | Appliances and equipment
designed or adapted for use with any arms, explosives and military or naval
stores specified in this Part.
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3 | Armour plate designed for
warlike purposes. |
4 | Assault bridges. |
5 | Barrage balloons. |
6 | Bayonets. |
7 | Boats designed or adapted
for any purpose of war, including assault, landing and storm boats.
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8 | Cannon, guns, howitzers,
mortars and other ordnance.
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9 | Catapults and other
equipment for launching aircraft from warships.
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10 | Deceptive warfare appliances
and equipment (including dazzle and decoy devices) and equipment designed or
adapted for the making of smoke screens.
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11 | Explosives and incendiary
materials. |
12 | Factory and tool equipment
designed or adapted for the production and maintenance of the goods specified
in this Part.
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13 | Firearms. |
14 | Fire control and sighting
and aiming appliances and equipment including predictors, plotting apparatus,
gun sights, bomb sights, fuse setters and equipment for the calibration of
guns.
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15 | Flame throwers. |
16 | Fuses, detonators and other
appliances designed or adapted for operating or exploding any arms or
explosives specified in this Part.
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17 | Gases or liquids designed
for the purpose of killing or incapacitating persons and decontamination
appliances and equipment.
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18 | Grenades, bombs, torpedoes,
mines and depth charges, whether charged or not, and appliances and equipment
designed or adapted for detecting, removing or destroying those arms and
explosives.
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19 | Gun mountings and gun
frames, gun turrets, " blisters ", bomb racks, torpedo carriers,
torpedo tubes and bomb and torpedo release appliances and equipment.
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20 | Personal appliances and
equipment designed or adapted for the use of members of a military or naval
force.
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21 | Projectiles and missiles
designed for any purpose of war.
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22 | Radar equipment designed or
adapted for any purpose of war.
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23 | Rocket projectors, and
appliances and equipment designed or adapted for launching or controlling
rockets and self-propelling or guided missiles.
|
24 | Spare and component parts of
or for any of the arms, explosives and military and naval stores specified in
this Part.
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25 | Telecommunication and cypher
appliances and equipment designed or adapted for any purpose of war.
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26 | Towed target equipment and
camera guns. |
27 | Vehicles designed or adapted
for any purpose of war, including amphibious vehicles, tanks and armoured
cars.
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The First Schedule.—continued.
Part Ii.
Goods which, in the Opinion of the Governor-General,
are Capable of being Used for Purposes of War, and the Exportation of which is
Prohibited unless the Consent of the Minister has first been Obtained.
Item No. | Kind or Description of Goods. |
1 | Aircraft (assembled or dismantled),
aircraft engines, and spare and component parts of aircraft and aircraft
engines
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2 | Animal and vegetable oils ;
fats and waxes. |
3 | Bitumen and bituminous
products. |
4 | Chemicals. |
5 | Clothing and blankets and
materials from which those goods are manufactured.
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6 | Drugs, and medicinal and
pharmaceutical goods. |
7 | Electrical and wireless
telegraphic appliances and equipment, and spare and component parts of those
goods.
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8 | Foodstuffs. |
9 | Glass and glassware other
than glassware for domestic use.
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10 | Industrial paints and
varnishes and materials from which those goods are manufactured.
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11 | Machinery and tools
(including electrical machinery and tools) and spare and component parts for
those goods.
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12 | Minerals, ores and mineral
concentrates and bars, blocks and ingots of metal.
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13 | Motor vehicles, spare and
component parts and accessories for motor vehicles and substances used for or
in connexion with the propulsion and operation of motor vehicles.
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14 | Optical, surgical, medical
and scientific instruments and appliances and photographic goods and
equipment of all kinds.
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15 | Petroleum and petroleum and
shale products. |
16 | Rubber and synthetic rubber,
materials used for the processing of rubber and synthetic rubber and goods
manufactured from rubber and synthetic rubber.
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17 | Welding electrodes and
welding rods. |
By Authority : l. f.
johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.