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

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 24

REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901.*

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 tenth day of March, 1977.

John R. Kerr

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Attorney-General.

Amendment of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 

Importation of blasphemous, indecent, obscene, &c., goods.

Regulation 4aof the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the words “ the Chairman or Acting Chairman of the National Literature Board of Review constituted under the Customs (National Literature Board of Review) Regulations or from the Director-General of Health ” and substituting the words “ the person or persons for the time being authorized by the Attorney-General to give such a report for the purposes of this regulation ”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (2) the following sub-regulation:—

“ (2a) The Attorney-General may, by writing under his hand, after consultation with the Ministers of State of the States with responsibility for censorship, authorize a person or persons to give reports for the purposes of this regulation.”.

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 15 March 1977.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 90 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1976, No. 98 and see also Statutory Rules 1976, Nos. 98, 159 and 186.

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