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

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 178.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901–1936.*

WHEREAS by section 112 of the Customs Act 1901–1936 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 opinion that the exportation of the goods specified in this Regulation, except as provided in this Regulation, 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 Regulation under the Customs Act 1901–1936.

Dated this eleventh day of December, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

BEN. COURTICE

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations. 

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

“71 Copper and alloys containing copper in the following forms:—angles, bars, billets, cakes, castings, concentrates, foil, forgings, gauze, hollows, ingots, matte, are, pipes, plates, powder, rod, salts, sections, sheets, slates, spinnings, stampings, strips, tubes and wire The intending exporter shall produce to the Collector of Customs a covering approval issued by the Department of Works and Housing”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 12th December, 1946.

 Statutory Rules 1935, No. 2; as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 4, 103 and115; 1936, Nos. 27, 87, 103 and 141; 1937, No. 73; 1938, Nos. 61, 65 and 86; 1939, No. 170; 1940, No. 30; 1941, No. 130; 1942, No. 470; 1945, Nos. 87 and 149, and 1946, Nos. 10, 58, 90, 106, 120, 138 and

 

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

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