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

STATUTORY RULES

1967 No. 178

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1967.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901-1967.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of December, 1967.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) KEN ANDERSON

Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

 

Amendments of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations  

Commencement.

1. These regulations shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1968.

Importation of blasphemous, indecent, obscene, etc., goods.

2. Regulation 4a of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) This regulation applies to goods that, whether of their own nature or having regard to any literary or other work or matter that is embodied, recorded or reproduced in, or can be reproduced from, the goods—

(a) are blasphemous, indecent or obscene; or

(b)unduly emphasize matters of sex, horror, violence or crime, or are likely to encourage depravity,

and to advertising matter relating to such goods.”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “Chairman of the Literature Censorship Board constituted under the Customs Literature Censorship) Regulations” and inserting in their stead the words “Chairman or Acting Chairman of the National Literature Board of Review constituted under the Customs (National Literature Board of Review) Regulations”.

Second Schedule.

3. The Second Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended by omitting item 22.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1969.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 90, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulation, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1967, No. 41, and see also Statutory Rules 1967, Nos. 41, 58, and 114.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur Commonwealth Government Printer Canberra

17123/67—Price 5c 10/15.12.1967