Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1949. No..

REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1947.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Customs Act 1901-1947.

Dated this ninth day of

 March, 1949.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

(Sgd.) BEN COURTICE

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations.  

Seventh Schedule.

The Seventh Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following item:-

“2.	Liqueurs	United Kingdom	1. The alcoholic strength of a liqueur shall be determined by distillation and shall be not less than the alcoholic strength set out opposite the name of that liqueur in the following table:—
			Proof Spirit
Advocaat ..................................	30 per centum
Cherry Brandy ..........................	43 per centum
Apricot Brandy, Blackberry Brandy, Crême de Café, Crême de Cassia, Crême de Cocao, Crême de Menthe, Maraschino and Peach Brandy...................................	50 per centum
Curaçoa, White or Orange..........	55 per centum
Kummel....................................	60 per centum
Benedictine, Chartreuse, Cointreau, Grand Marnier and similar types of liqueurs..............................	65 per centum
All other liqueurs.......................	50 per centum
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of the last preceding paragraph, the Minister may, in his discretion, allow such margin of tolerance in respect of the minimum alcoholic strength of a liqueur as he thinks fit”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1949.

  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 ; and 1948, Nos. 6, 50, 105 and 120.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

6155.—Price 3D. 9/16.2.1949.