Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1989 No. 3791

 

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations2

(Amendment)

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

Dated 14 December 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

John N Button

Minister of State for Industry, Technology and Commerce

Importation of therapeutic substances

Regulation 5a of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended:

(a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (a) “or” (second occurring);

(b) by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “substances,” and substituting “substances; or”;

(c) by inserting after paragraph (1) (b) the following paragraph:

“(c) anabolic or androgenic substances or natural or synthetic growth hormones;”;

(d) by omitting subregulation (2) and substituting the following subregulation:

“(2) Subregulation (3) does not apply:

(a) to a therapeutic substance specified in subregulation (1); or

(b) to a therapeutic substance imported by a passenger in a ship or aircraft, being a substance:

(i) that is brought to Australia on that ship or aircraft; and

 

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(ii) that is for the personal use of the passenger or a relative of the passenger; and

(iii) the amount of which does not exceed 3 months’ supply for a person at the maximum dosage recommended by the manufacturer of the substance.”;

(e) by omitting from subregulation (3) “the next succeeding sub-regulation” and substituting “subregulation (4)”;

(f) by omitting from subregulation (4) “of this regulation or under the last preceding sub-regulation” and substituting “or under subregulation (3)”;

(g) by omitting from subregulation (5) “the last preceding sub-regulation” and substituting “subregulation (4)”;

(h) by omitting from subregulation (6) “the last preceding sub-regulation” and substituting “subregulation (5)”;

(i) by omitting from subregulation (6) “of these Regulations”;

(j) by omitting from subregulation (7) “Sub-regulation (4) of regulation 5d of these Regulations” and substituting “Subregulation 5d (4)”;

(k) by omitting from subregulation (7) “of this regulation” and “of these Regulations”;

(l) by omitting subregulation (8) and substituting the following subregulation:

“(8) In this regulation:

‘authorised person’ means a person authorised in writing by the Secretary of the Department of Community Services and Health to be an authorised person for the purposes of this regulation;

‘relative’, in relation to a person, means:

(a) a spouse, child, parent or grandparent of the person; and

(b) a person living with the person as his or her spouse on a permanent domestic basis although not legally married to him or her.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 December 1989.

2. Statutory Rules 1956 No. 90 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1989 No. 60 and see also Statutory Rules 1989 No. 60.

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