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

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 3541

 

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 Regulations under the Customs Act 1901.

Dated 3 December 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

John N. Button

Minister of State for Industry, Technology and Commerce

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 June 1987.

Principal Regulations

2. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations.

Importation of goods from the Republic of South Africa or of South African origin

3. Regulation 4q of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following sub-regulations:

“(2) The importation into Australia from South Africa of goods, or the importation into Australia from a country other than South Africa of goods of South African origin, being in either case goods specified or referred to in Schedule 7a, is prohibited unless the permission in writing of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs or an authorized person to import those goods is produced to a Collector.

“(3) A reference in item 12, 13 or 14 in Schedule 7a to these Regulations to the Customs Tariff Act 1982 is a reference to that Act as in force from time to time.

 

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“(4) A reference in item 12, 13 or 14 in Schedule 7a to goods falling within an item shall be read as including a reference to goods falling within a sub-item, paragraph or sub-paragraph in that item.

“(5) In this regulation, ‘South Africa’ means the Republic of South Africa.”.

Schedule 7a

4. Schedule 7a to the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the heading and substituting the following heading:

“SCHEDULE 7a Regulation 4q

GOODS THE IMPORTATION OF WHICH FROM SOUTH AFRICA, OR, BEING GOODS OF SOUTH AFRICAN ORIGIN, FROM A COUNTRY OTHER THAN SOUTH AFRICA, IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE PERMISSION OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OR AN AUTHORIZED PERSON IS PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR”; and

(b) by adding at the end the following items:

“12 Goods falling within an item in Division 1, 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1982

13 Goods (being coal or another fuel) falling within item 27.01, 27.02, 27.03 or 27.04 in Chapter 27 of Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1982

14 Goods (being iron and steel and articles thereof) falling within item 73.01 or any of the items 73.03 to 73.18 (inclusive) in Chapter 73 of Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1982”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 December 1986.

2. Statutory Rules 1956 No. 90 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1986 No. 180 and see also Statutory Rules 1986 Nos. 180, 307 and 342.

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