Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1956. No. 71.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1954.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of 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 fourth

day of October, 1956.

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) F. M. Osborne

Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

Amendments of the Customs Regulations. ϯ

1. Regulation 13 of the Customs Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—

“ 13.—(1.) If a licensed carriage, boat or lighter is sold or rendered unfit for the carriage of goods subject to the control of the Customs, the licensee of the carriage, boat or lighter shall not convey in the carriage, boat or lighter any goods subject to the control of the Customs.

Penalty: Twenty pounds.

“ (2.) If a licensed carriage, boat or lighter is sold, rendered unfit for the carriage of goods subject to the control of the Customs or lost, the licensee of the carriage, boat or lighter shall forthwith return the licence to the Collector for cancellation or correction, as the case may be.

Penalty: Twenty pounds.”.

2. Regulation 73 of the Customs Regulations is amended by omitting all the words from and including the words “ Finished piece goods ” to and including the word “interlinings.” and inserting in their stead the words—

“ Finished piece goods woven wholly of cotton.

Fortified wine.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 4th October, 1956.

Ϯ Statutory Rules 1926, No. 203, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 17, 95 and 121; 1928, Nos. 47, 57, 74 and 95; 1929, Nos. 25, 56 and 127; 1930, Nos. 91, 138 and 140; 1931, Nos. 16, 42 and 90; 1932, No. 90; 1933, Nos. 21, 105, 106 and 129; 1934, Nos. 109 and 127; 1935, Nos. 1, 41, 69 and 113; 1936, Nos. 49 and 163; 1938, No. 111; 1939, No. 157; 1940, Nos. 203 and 256; 1946, Nos. 127 and 161; 1947, Nos. 29, 83, 94 and 152; 1948, No. 156; 1949, Nos. 34, 78, 95 and 111; 1950, No. 17; 1951, Nos. 34, 38, 71, 99, 106, 109 and 159; 1952, No. 96; 1953, No. 102; 1954, No. 21; and 1955, Nos. 15, 32 and 66.

1642/56.—Price 3d.  9/11.5.1956.

3.—(1.) Regulation 93 of the Customs Regulations is amended by omitting item 10 in the table to sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following item :—

“ 10. General merchandise—
(a) per package, or in the case of a group of packages bearing the same import mark or being in the same consignment, per group of packages—
(i) where the weight or aggregate of the weights, as the case may be, is more than 56 lb. but not more than 560 lb. and the measurement or the aggregate of the measurements, as the case may be, is more than 2 cubic feet but not more than 10 cubic feet………………………………………………..	1	0	6	0
(ii) where the weight or aggregate of the weights, as the case may be, is more than 28 lb. but not more than 56 lb. and the measurement

 

or the aggregate of the measurements, as the case may be, is more than 1 cubic foot but not more than 2 cubic feet.......................	0	6	4	0
(iii) where the weight or aggregate of the weights, as the case may be, is not more than 28 lb. and the measurement or the aggregate of the measurements is not more than 1 cubic foot.............................	0	6	2	6
(b) other general merchandise, for each 40 cubic feet or measurement of less than 40 cubic feet............................................................................	2	6	8	0 ”

(2.) This regulation shall come into operation on the twenty-second day of October, 1956.

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