Customs Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

statutory rules

1917. No. 256.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1916.

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 1901-1916 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this third day of October, 1917.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. A. JENSEN.

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of the Customs Regulations 1913.

(Statutory Rules 1913, No. 346.)

1. Regulation 157 is hereby repealed and the following Regulation substituted in its stead:—

“157. (1) Any person so licensed who is—

(a) exclusively in the employ of a licensed Customs Agent; or

(b) exclusively in the employ of a firm, another of whose employees is a licensed Customs Agent; or

(c) a partner in a firm of which another partner is a licensed Customs Agent; or

(d) a director of a company of which another director is a licensed Customs Agent

shall for the purposes of these Regulations be styled a Customs Sub-Agent.

(2) The licensed Customs Agent who is under sub-regulation (1) hereof the employer, the co-employee, partner, or co-director, as the case may be, of the Customs Sub-Agent, may in any Customs Security be referred to as the Head Agent of the Customs Sub-Agent.”

C. 11261.—price 3d.

 

2. Form 22 of the Schedule to the Customs Regulations 1913 is hereby cancelled and the following Form substituted in its stead:—

Regs. 41, 46, 84, 89, 157.

Form 22.

AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS.

General Shipping—Security to the Customs.

State of............................................., Port of..................................

By this security the subscribers are, pursuant to the Customs Act 1901-1916, bound to the Customs of the Commonwealth of Australia in the sum of....................sterling, subject only to this condition that if, for a period of twelve months from the date hereof, all goods subject to the control of the Customs, which are entered in the State of..........................................., by:—

(a)........................................of...........................................

(hereinafter called the Head Agent); or

(b)any Customs Sub-Agent of whom the Head Agent is Head Agent within the meaning of Regulation 157 under the said Act;

whether on behalf of the Head Agent as owner of the goods or as agent for any person or persons, corporation or corporations named in the Customs entry or other Customs document as owner of the goods, for exportation or transhipment, are duly exported or transhipped, and if all goods entered as above for removal for warehousing elsewhere, removal coastwise or inland, or unshipped under Transit Permit are duly warehoused or duly cleared for home consumption, and if the goods are dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and any amendment thereof or any Act passed in substitution therefor, and the Regulations for the time being in force thereunder, then this security shall be thereby discharged.

Dated at...................................the......................................day of..................................., 19..........

Names and Descriptions of Subscribers. Signatures of Subscribers. Signatures and Addresses of Witnesses.

Note.—If liability is not intended to be joint and several and for the full amount here state what is intended, as, for example, thus:—“The liability of the subscribers is joint only”, or “the liability of [mentioning subscriber]is limited to [here state amount of limit of liability or mode of ascertaining limit].

 

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