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

STATUTORY RULES.

1938. No. 49.

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REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1936.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of 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 twenty-fifth day of May, 1938.

HUNTINGFIELD

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Acting Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations. 

Second Schedule.

The Second Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended by inserting after item 14 the following item:—

“14a Literature which, in the opinion of the Minister, and whether by words or by picture, or partly by words and partly by picture— (a) unduly emphasises matters of sex or of crime; or (b) is calculated to encourage depravity”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 5th May, 1938.

  Statutory Rules 1934, No. 152, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, No. 19; 1936, Nos. 18, 38, 59, 69, 86, 92, 97, 104, 130, 162, and 166; 1937, No. 2; and 1938, Nos. 7 and 40.

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