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

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 280

REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 19011

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 this twentieth day of December 1979.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

R. V. GARLAND

Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs

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AMENDMENT OF THE CUSTOMS (PROHIBITED IMPORTS)

REGULATIONS2

 Regulation 4K of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Importation of woolpacks and woolpack caps

• “4K.

  (1) Subject to this regulation, the importation into Australia of woolpacks or woolpack caps is prohibited unless permission in writing to import the woolpacks or woolpack caps, as the case may be, for a specified purpose has been granted by the Minister of State for Primary Industry or a person authorized in writing by him for that purpose.

• “(2)

  A permission under this regulation may be subject to conditions imposing requirements or prohibitions on the person to whom the permission is granted with respect to the custody, use, disposal or destruction of the woolpacks or woolpack caps, as the case may be, for the purpose of ensuring that the woolpacks or woolpack caps are not used otherwise than for the purpose in relation to which the permission is granted.

• “(3)

  The provisions of sub-regulation (1) do not apply in relation to unused woolpacks consisting of high density polyethylene, jute or multifilament nylon in respect of which there is produced to the Collector a certificate issued by a prescribed testing authority stating–

  • (a)

    in the case of woolpacks consisting of high density polyethylene–that the woolpacks conform to Australian Wool Corporation Standard No. 1 published on 18 May 1979;

  • (b)

    in the case of woolpacks consisting of jute–that the woolpacks conform to Australian Wool Corporation Standard No. 2 published on 18 May 1979; and

  • (c)

    in the case of woolpacks consisting of multifilament nylon–that the woolpacks conform to Australian Wool Corporation Standard No.3 published on 18 May 1979.

• “(4)

  The provisions of sub-regulation (1) do not apply in relation to unused woolpack caps in respect of which there is produced to the Collector a certificate issued by a prescribed testing authority stating that the woolpack caps conform to Australian Wool Corporation Standard No. 4 published on 18 May 1979.

• “(5)

  In this regulation, ‘prescribed testing authority’ means an Australian or overseas testing authority approved by the Minister of State for Primary Industry on the recommendation of the Australian Wool Corporation for the purposes of this regulation.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 December 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1956 No. 90 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 145 and see also