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

STATUTORY RULES

1916. No. 28.

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1914.

I, THE GOVERNOR GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Customs Act 1901-1914 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this fifteenth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Customs Regulation.

Collector’s Sales.

Regulation 189 of the Customs Regulations (Statutory Rules 1913, No. 346) is hereby amended by the insertion after paragraph 2 of the following additional paragraphs:—

“(2a) The Collector reserves to himself the right to refuse the bidding of any person who has not satisfactorily complied with the conditions of previous sales.

“(2b) The highest bidder to be the purchaser; but if any dispute arise as to the last or best bidder, the lot in dispute shall be put up again and resold.”

 

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