Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1925. No. 33.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1923

(THIRTIETH AMENDMENT.)

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 1901-1923, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of February, 1925.

 

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. E. PRATTEN,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of Customs Regulations 1922.

(Statutory Rules 1922, No. 24, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 41 of the Customs Regulations is amended by the addition after the word and figures “Form 22” of the word and figures “or 22a”.

Regulation 46 of the Customs Regulations is amended by the deletion of the words and figures “Forms 21 or 22” and the substitution therefor of the words and figures “Forms 21, 22, or 22a”.

Regulation 84 of the Customs Regulations is amended by the addition after the word and figures “Form 22” of the word and figures “or 22a”.

Regulation 89 of the Customs Regulations is amended by the addition after the word and figures “Form 22” of the word and figures “or 22a”.

 

After Form 22 in the Schedule to the Customs Regulations the following form is inserted:—

Regulations 41, 46, 84, 89, 157. FORM 22a.

THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

General Shipping: Security to the Customs.

By this Security the subscribers are, pursuant to the Customs Act 1901-1923, bound to the Customs of the Commonwealth of Australia in the sum of subject only to this condition that if—

1. Whenever and as often as of whether as owner or as agent for the owner and whether personally or by agent—

(a) makes an entry for the exportation or transshipment or removal coastwise or inland or removal locally to a warehouse of; or

(b) obtains a transit permit for—

any goods or packages subject to the control of the Customs, all such goods and packages are dealt with in all respects in accordance with the entry made or permit obtained therefor and with the said Act and any amendment thereof to the satisfaction of the Collector of Customs for the State in which such entry is made or permit obtained; and—

2. All such goods and packages are at all times safely and securely kept until exported shipped or delivered in accordance with the entry made or permit obtained therefor; and—

3. Whenever and as often, as—

(a) any goods which according to any invoice or other commercial document received by an owner within the meaning of the said Act of any such package as aforesaid were or should have been contained in such package; and

(b) such goods are not contained in the package when or at any time before the package is exported shipped or delivered in accordance with the entry made or permit obtained therefor;

the subscribers prove to the satisfaction of the said Collector that such goods were not in fact contained in the package at the time when the entry was made or the permit obtained therefor;

then this Security shall be thereby discharged.

Dated at the day of 19

Names and Description 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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