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

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 1021

 

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 31 May 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Attorney-General

Importation of objectionable goods

Regulation 4a of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (1a) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(a) publications, other than films that are registered under the Customs (Cinematograph Films) Regulations, that, in the opinion of the Attorney-General or a person authorized by him for the purposes of this sub-regulation—

(i) depict in pictorial form a child (whether engaged in sexual activity or otherwise) who is, or who is apparently, under the age of 16 years in a manner that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult person;

(ii) depict in pictorial form bestiality in a manner likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult person;

(iii) contain detailed and gratuitous depictions in pictorial form of acts of considerable violence or cruelty, or explicit and gratuitous depictions in pictorial form of sexual violence against non-consenting persons;

(iv) promote or incite terrorism; or

(v) promote or incite the misuse of a drug specified in the Fourth Schedule.”.

 

S.R. 116/84 Cat. No. —Recommended retail price 20c 150/23.5.1984

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 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 and 64.

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