Customs Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 149.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1916.

I, SIR WILLIAM HILL IRVINE, Deputy of 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 1901-1916, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of August, 1920.

W. H. IRVINE,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of the Customs Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 346.)

Regulations 13, 14, and 15 are repealed, and the following regulations inserted in their stead:—

“13. (1) The Collector will assign to each licensed carriage, boat and lighter a separate licence number out of a consecutive series.

(2) The Collector will, for each licensed carriage, issue to the licensee, a carriage number-plate bearing a representation of a Crown, the letters ‘H.M.C.’, and a licence number assigned to the carriage.

(3) Every licensed carriage shall—

(a)have prominently, legibly, and indelibly painted thereon the name of the licensee; and

(b) have securely affixed thereto the carriage number-plate issued for the carriage.

(4) Every licensed boat and lighter shall have prominently, legibly, and indelibly painted thereon—

(a) the name of the boat or lighter;

(b) the licence number assigned to the boat or lighter; and

(c) the letters ‘H.M.C.’.

(5) If any goods subject to the control of the Customs are conveyed or contained in a carriage, boat, or lighter which does not comply with the last two preceding sub-regulations of this regulation, the owner or user of the carriage, boat, or lighter shall be guilty of an offence against this regulation.

14. (1) Every carriage number-plate shall remain the property of the Commonwealth, and shall forthwith be returned to the Collector by the owner of the carriage for which the plate was issued upon such carriage ceasing to be licensed.

 

(2) Upon a boat or lighter ceasing to be licensed, the licence number and the letters ‘H.M.C.’ shall forthwith be obliterated by the owner of the boat or lighter.

(3) Any person who fails to comply with the requirements of the preceding sub-regulations of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence against this regulation.

(4) The owner or user of a carriage to which is affixed, without the permission in writing of the Collector, a carriage number-plate not issued for that carriage shall be guilty of an offence against this regulation.

15. Any person guilty of an offence against regulation 13 or 14 shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding Fifty pounds and not being less than Five pounds.”

(T. & C. 20/A. 5049.)

 

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