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

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 1281

 

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 27 June 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Industry and Commerce

After regulation 4n of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Importation of cordless telephones

“4p. (1) In this regulation, unless the contrary intention appears—

‘authorized officer’ means an officer of the Department of Communications appointed in writing by the Minister to be an authorized officer for the purposes of this regulation;

‘cordless telephone’ means a telephone consisting of—

(a) a fixed base station connected by means of a cord to a switched telephone network; and

(b) one or more handsets none of which is connected by a cord to the fixed base station but by means of which communication may be achieved through the fixed base station with the users of other telephones in the switched telephone network by the transmission of radio signals between the handset and the fixed base station;

‘Minister’ means the Minister of State for Communications:

‘relevant component of a cordless telephone’ means a fixed base station, or a handset, that is capable of being used as part of a cordless telephone.

 

S.R. 258/83 Cat. No. Recommended retail price 20c 12/8.2.1984

 

“(2) The importation into Australia of a cordless telephone or a relevant component of a cordless telephone is prohibited unless—

(a) the permission in writing of the Minister or an authorized officer to import the cordless telephone or the relevant component, as the case requires, is produced to the Collector; or

(b) the cordless telephone or the relevant component is of a kind specified in an approval given and in force under sub-regulation (3).

“(3) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, approve the importation into Australia of the following:

(a) cordless telephones of a specified kind;

(b) relevant components of cordless telephones, being relevant components of a specified kind.

“(4) In considering whether to give a permission for the purposes of sub-regulation (2) or an approval under sub-regulation (3), the Minister or an authorized officer, as the case may be, shall have regard, in addition to any other matters that are relevant, to whether use of the cordless telephone or relevant component, or of a cordless telephone or relevant component of the particular kind, as the case requires, would or would be likely to—

(a) cause injury to persons or damage to property; or

(b) cause interference with the use of other equipment used in radiocommunications.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1984.

2. Statutory Rules 1956 No. 90 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1984 No. 55 and see also Statutory Rules 1984 Nos. 55, 64 and 102.

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