Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1956. No. 91.

—————

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1954.*

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 1901-1954.

Dated this fourteenth day of December, 1956.

W.J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) Denham Henty

Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

—————

Amendments of the Customs Regulations,  

1. Regulations 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 of the Customs Regulations and the headings immediately preceding any of those regulations are repealed.

2. Regulation 41 of the Customs Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “six” and inserting in its stead the word “twelve”.

3. Regulation 73 of the Customs Regulations is amended by inserting, after the word—

“Medicines”, the words—

“Motor vehicles”.

4. Regulations 106, 107, 108, 108a and 108b of the Customs Regulations and the heading immediately preceding regulation 106 are repealed and the following heading and regulations inserted in their stead:—

Secs. 127-130A. “SHIPS’ STORES AND AIRCRAFT’S STORES.

“106.—(1.) Ships’ stores being spirituous liquors, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco products or snuff are stores to which section 129 of the Act does not apply.

“(2.) All aircraft’s stores other than—

(a)stores of an aircraft which is registered in Australia and is engaged on an international air service or flight;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1956.

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 203, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Customs Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1956, No. 71, and see also Statutory Rules 1956, No.

1851/55.—Price 3d. 10/20.11.1950.

 

(b)stores, being stores of a kind in respect of which the country in which the aircraft is registered grants exemption from the payment of duties, of customs on stores of that kind when used in that country by the passengers or crew, or for the service, of an aircraft registered in Australia; and

(c) stores upon which the Comptroller considers it would be uneconomical to collect duty,

are stores to which section 129 of the Act does not apply.

“107. An application under sub-section (1.) of section 130a of the Act shall be in accordance with Form 43.

“108.—(1.) The master or owner of a ship shall give a receipt for all ships’ stores received on board in pursuance of a permission granted under sub-section (2.) of section 130a of the Act.

“(2.) The pilot or owner of an aircraft shall give a receipt for all aircraft’s stores received on board in pursuance of a permission granted under sub-section (2.) of section 130a of the Act.”.

5. Sub-regulation (2.) of regulation 106 of the Customs Regulations, as amended by the last preceding regulation, does not operate in relation to aircraft’s stores of an aircraft arriving in the Commonwealth from overseas after the commencement of these Regulations and departing from the Commonwealth before the first day of January, 1957.

—————————

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