Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1921. No. 97.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1920.

I, THE Deputy of 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 1901-1920, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this ninth day of May, 1921.

STRADBROKE,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendments of the Customs Regulations as Amended to this Date.

After regulation 100 of the Customs Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

Reserve on wool permitted to be exported.

“100a.— (1.) The reserve to be notified by the company known as the British Australian Wool Realization Association Limited to the Minister for the purposes of the proclamation dated the ninth day of May, 1921, relating to the export of wool, as being the reserve on wool of each type, shall be determined by that company, in accordance with the principles upon which the reserves on wool were determined by the Central Wool Committee in respect of wool of the season of 1919-1920, and shall be such a reserve as will, with the reserves similarly determined in respect of all other types of Australian wool, produce an average reserve of eightpence per pound for an average Australian wool clip.

“(2.) In this regulation the Central Wool Committee means the body of that name constituted under the War Precautions (Wool) Regulations 1916.

“(3.) For the purposes of this regulation the average of the Australian wool clips for the seasons 1917-1918, 1918-1919, and 1919-1920 shall be deemed to be an average Australian wool clip.

Declaration of exporter of wool.

“100b. Every person desiring to export wool from the Commonwealth during the continuance of the proclamation dated the ninth day of May, 1921, relating to the export of wool, shall, prior to the shipment of the wool, supply to the Collector at the port of shipment—

(a) in the case of wool purchased in Australia on or after the date of the proclamation (not being wool on consignment for sale overseas), a statutory declaration, or other evidence to the satisfaction of the Collector, that the wool was purchased by the person on whose behalf it is being exported, at a price not lower than the reserve agreed upon as the official reserve in respect of wool of that type; and

(b) in the case of wool consigned for sale overseas, an undertaking or security, to the satisfaction of the Minister, that the wool will not be sold, either publicly or privately, at a price lower than an amount which represents the equivalent of the reserve agreed upon as the official reserve in respect of wool of that type, plus the freight and other charges on the wool from the port of shipment in Australia to the place of sale overseas.

Penalty: Fifty pounds.

Penalty for sale below amount provided for in undertaking.

“100c. If any wool in respect of which an undertaking has been given in pursuance of the last preceding regulation is sold at a price lower than the amount provided for in the undertaking, the person who gave the undertaking shall be guilty of an offence

Penalty: Fifty pounds.”

 

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