Customs Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1914. No. 101.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1910.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Customs Act 1901-1910 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this sixteenth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. H. McCOLL,

for Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Customs Regulations.

Regulation 3 of the Customs Regulations (S.R. 1913, No. 346) is hereby repealed, and the following Regulation is inserted in its stead:—

“Wharfs.—Security.

3.—(1) The owner of any wharf, or any person having the control of a wharf, in respect of which security has not been furnished at the commencement of this Regulation, must furnish security, for the protection of the revenue, in accordance with Form 1A.

(2) The security to be given in respect of a wharf shall be for such amount as the Collector of Customs for the State in which the wharf is situate deems necessary.

(3) In respect of wharfs in actual use at the commencement of this Regulation, such security must be furnished to the Customs within sixty days from the commencement of this Regulation.

(4) Any wharf-owner, or person having the control of a wharf, who fails to comply with the provisions of this Regulation, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £50, and such failure shall be a good ground for the cancellation of the appointment of the wharf as a wharf within the meaning of the Customs Act 1901-1910.”

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