Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 180

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901*

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 this twenty-eighth day of September 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

WAL. FIFE

Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs

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AMENDMENTS OF THE CUSTOMS REGULATIONS 

1. Regulation 23a of the Customs Regulations and the heading immediately preceding that regulation are repealed and the following heading and regulation substituted:

“ COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS

“ 23a. (1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), where the owner of goods furnishes a commercial document to a Collector under section 40b of the Act, the Collector shall, after examining the document for the purposes of paragraph 40b (1) (a) of the Act—

(a) stamp the document with the appropriate stamp;

(b) initial the document; and

(c) where the document relates to other goods in addition to the goods in respect of which the document is furnished, indicate on the document the goods to which the stamping and initialling relate.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 September 1978.

  Statutory Rules 1926 No. 203 as amended to date. For previous amendments see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1978 No. 32 and see also Statutory Rules 1978 Nos. 32 and 147.

 

“ (2) Where a commercial document that is furnished to a Collector in respect of certain goods is a document that has previously been stamped and initialled in relation to those goods, the Collector is not required to stamp and initial the document in accordance with sub-regulation (1).

“ (3) In this regulation, ‘ commercial document ’ has the same meaning as in section 40b of the Act.”.

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