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

STATUTORY RULES.

1964. No. 25.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1963.*

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 1901-1963.

Dated this seventeenth day of February, 1964.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

DENHAM HENTY

Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

 

Amendments of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations. 

Definitions.

1. Regulation 2 of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended by inserting after the definition of “pistol” the following definitions:—

“‘poppy straw’ means any part (other than the seeds) of the opium poppy (Papaver Somniferum);

“‘the Act’ means the Customs Act 1901-1963;”.

Importation of fish.

2. After regulation 4a of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“4b.—(1.) In this regulation ‘fish’ includes all forms of marine life other than whales.

“(2.) This regulation applies to fish, other than fish that are, by virtue of section 131a of the Act, not subject to the control of the Customs, that—

(a) have been taken in waters beyond the territorial limits of Australia; and

(b) have not been landed at a port or place in a country outside Australia,

whether the fish are fresh, smoked, preserved in airtight containers or frozen.

“(3.) The importation of fish, or of parts of fish, to which this regulation applies is prohibited unless the importer produces to the Collector the permission, in writing, of the Minister of State for Primary Industry.”.

Second Schedule.

3. The Second Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended by inserting after item 27 the following item:—

“28| Poppy straw”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 27th February, 1964.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 90, as amended by Statutory Rules 1958, Nos. 6 and 67; 1959, Nos. 17, 31 and 93; 1960, No. 22; 1961, No. 117; 1962, No. 82; and 1963, No. 26.

 

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

6570/63.—Price 6d.