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

Statutory Rules

1973 No. 262

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1971.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901-1971.

Dated this eleventh day of December, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

LIONEL MURPHY

Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

Amendments of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) REGULATIONS 

Interpretation.

1. Regulation 2 of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting before the definition of “coffee” the following definition:—

“‘ British Standard’ means a standard issued by the British Standards Institution established under Royal Charter;”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3) For the purposes of these Regulations—

(a) a reference to a British Standard published on a date specified in these Regulations shall be read as a reference to such British Standard published by the British Standards Institution on that date; and

(b) where a British Standard refers to another instrument, that instrument shall be deemed to be incorporated with, and form part of, the British Standard.”.

Importation of glazed ceramic ware.

2. After regulation 4d of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“4e. (1) The importation into Australia of an article of glazed ceramic ware of a kind normally used for or in connexion with the storage or consumption of food is prohibited if the article is an article of a kind specified in an item

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 19 December, 1973.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 90, as amended by Statutory Rules 1958, Nos. 6 and 67; 1959, Nos. 17, 31 and 93; 1960, No. 22; 1961, No. 117; 1962, No. 82; 1963, No. 26; 1964, Nos. 25 and 39; 1965, Nos. 81, 91, 135, 167 and 190; 1966, No. 95; 1967, Nos. 41, 58, 114 and 178; 1968, Nos. 100, 141 and 161; 1969. Nos. 2, 7, 10, 39, 43 and 218; 1970, Nos. 8, 72, 105 and 194; 1972, No. 97; and 1973, Nos. 5, 6, 42, 43, 89, 93, 162, 175, 217, 227 and 228.

in the Seventh Schedule to these Regulations and, when tested with the prescribed solution in accordance with the method specified in that item (in column 3), releases to the solution lead or cadmium in an amount per volume of solution in excess of the amounts of lead and cadmium per volume of solution respectively specified in that item (in columns 4 and 5).

“(2) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), the prescribed solution is a solution consisting of four per centum by volume of glacial acetic acid in water, being water that conforms with British Standard 3978 published on 18 February 1966.”.

Seventh Schedule.

3. The Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations are amended by inserting at the end thereof the following Schedule:—

SEVENTH SCHEDULE Reg. 4e.

ARTICLES OF GLAZED CERAMIC WARE, METHODS OF TESTING AND PERMISSIBLE LEVELS OF METAL RELEASE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Item No.	Description of Article	Method of testing	Amount of lead per volume of solution	Amount of cadmium per volume of solution
milligrams per litre	milligrams per litre
1	Cup, mug, jug, jar, bowl, teapot, coffee pot or other article of tableware (other than an article referred to in Item 3) having a liquid capacity of less than 1100 millilitres.	Method specified and described in paragraph 4 (other than sub-paragraph 4.1) of Part 1 of British Standard 4860 published on 31 October 1972.	7.0	0.7
2	Cup, mug, jug, jar, bowl, teapot, coffee pot or other article of tableware (other than an article referred to in Item 3) having a liquid capacity equal to or in excess of 1100 millilitres.	Method specified and described in paragraph 4 (other than sub-paragraph 4.1) of Part 1 of British Standard 4860 published on 31 October 1972.	2.0	0.2
3	Plate (including soup plate or dessert plate), saucer, or similar article of tableware.	Method specified and described in paragraph 4 (other than sub-paragraph 4.1) of Part 1 of British Standard 4860 published on 31 October 1972.	20.0	2.0
4	Any article of cooking ware.	Method specified and described in paragraph 4 (other than sub-paragraph 4.1) of Part 2 of British Standard 4860 published on 31 October 1972.	7.0	0.7