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

STATUTORY RULES.

1948. No.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1947.*

WHEREAS by section 112 of the Customs Act 1901-1947 it is provided that the Governor-General may, by regulation, prohibit the exportation of any goods the exportation of which would, in his opinion, be harmful to the Commonwealth :

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 exportation of the goods specified in these Regulations, except as provided in these Regulations, would be harmful to the Commonwealth :

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 1901-1947.

Dated this fourth

day of  August,  1948.

W.J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

(Sgd.) BEN COURTICE

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 from the third column of items 48, 49, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 65, 91, 95, 96, 102, 116, 122, 126 and 133 the words " Supply and Shipping " (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words " Supply and Development ";

(b) by omitting from the third column of items 63 and 64 the words " Commonwealth Prices Branch " and inserting in their stead the words " Department of Supply and Development ";

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1948.

  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 and 50.

1880.–PRICE 3D.  10/30.6.1948.

 (c) by omitting from the third column of item 93 the words " Supply and Shipping " and inserting in their stead the words " Commerce and Agriculture ";

(d) by omitting item 127 and inserting in its stead the following item :─

" 127  Agricultural machinery, namely, tractors ; drills, grain and fertilizer cultivator ; drills, seed, for cereal crops ; harvesters, header ; reaper threshers ; reapers and binders ; hay balers , pick-up ; tractor mowers ; and spare parts of those machines The intending exporter shall produce to the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of Commerce and Agriculture." ; and

 (e) by adding at the end thereof the following items : ─

" 138	Veneers, rotary cut..............................	The intending exporter shall produce to the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of the Interior.
139	Tantalite ore and concentrates	The intending exporter shall produce to the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of Supply and Development.
140	Tantalite Oxide and other Tantalum salts	The intending exporter shall produce to the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of Supply and Development.
141	Tantalum metal and Tantalum alloys in the form of powder, plates, bars or strips	The intending exporter shall produce to the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of Supply and Development.
142	Aluminium and aluminium alloys, in ingot form	The intending exporter shall produce to the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of Supply and Development.
143	Sunflower oil and seed.........................	The intending exporter shall produce to the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of Supply and Development.
144	Hair....................................................	The intending exporter shall produce to the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of Supply and Development.

Fourth Schedule.

2. The Fourth Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting item 10B and inserting in its stead the following item: ─

" 10B Tools, hand, namely :— bits, wood, auger and nail ; carpenters' chisels ; glass cutters ; files and rasps ; micrometers ; plasterers' small tools (sets of three) ; protractors ; boxwood rules, three feet, four fold ; saws of all kinds ; trowels, plasterers' and bricklayers'."

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