Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1961. No. 144.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1960.*

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 1901-1960.

Dated this twentieth day of November, 1961.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

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AMENDMENTS OF THE CUSTOMS REGULATIONS,  

1. Regulation 43 of the Customs Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“43. For the purposes of section 72 of the Act, the prescribed time is five o’clock in the afternoon of the first working day after the day of the arrival of the ship or aircraft.”.

2. Regulation 130 of the Customs Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(b)second-hand goods (not being motor vehicles on which drawbacks of import duty may be allowed by virtue of the next succeeding regulation),”.

3. After regulation 130 of the Customs Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“130A.—(1.) Motor vehicles on which import duty has been paid are goods specified for the purposes of sub-section (1.) of section 168 of the Act.

“(2.) Drawback of import duty shall not be allowed on the exportation of a motor vehicle unless—

(a) the motor vehicle was purchased by a person who was, at the date of the purchase, temporarily resident in Australia and that person has owned the vehicle from that date until it is exported;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 30th November, 1960.

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 203, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Customs Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1961, No. 60.

3515/61.—PRICE 3D. 10/21.9.1961.

 

(b) the motor vehicle, when purchased, was a new motor vehicle; and

(c) the motor vehicle is exported from Australia within six months after the date of the purchase or within such further time as the Comptroller-General, on an application made within that period of six months, allows.”.

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By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.