Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 3631

Customs Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901.

Dated 11 December 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

John N. Button

Minister of State for Industry, Technology and Commerce

 

Commercial documents

1. Regulation 23a of the Customs Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraphs (1) (a) and (b) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(a) stamp the document with the appropriate stamp or perforate the document with the appropriate perforator;

(b) where the Collector stamps the document with the appropriate stamp—initial the document; and”;

(b) by inserting in paragraph (1) (c) “or perforating” after “initialling”;

(c) by inserting in sub-regulation (2) “or perforated” after “initialled”; and

(d) by inserting in sub-regulation (2) “or perforate” after “initial”.

 

(S.R. 349/86)—Cat. No.  10/27.10.1986

 

2. After regulation 23b of the Customs Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Appropriate perforator

“24. For the purposes of regulation 23a, the appropriate perforator is a machine capable of perforating a document with a pattern of perforations forming—

(a) the letters ‘ACS’;

(b) a number representing the number allocated to the machine by the Comptroller;

(c) a letter allocated by the Comptroller to the port, airport or place at which the machine is located for the purpose of identifying that port, airport or place; and

(d) numbers representing the year in which, and the day in that year on which, the perforation is made.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 December 1986.

2.Statutory Rules 1926 No. 203 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1986 No. 77 and see also Statutory Rules 1986 Nos. 77, 91, 94, 144, 174, 175, 176, 215, 248 and 361.

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