Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

 

STATUTORY RULES.

1955. No. 32.

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 Tenth day of May, 1955.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd) NEIL O’SULLIVAN

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

AMENDMENTS OF THE CUSTOMS REGULATIONS. 

1. Regulation 24 of the Customs Regulations and the heading immediately preceding that regulation are repealed and the following heading and regulation inserted in their stead:—

Sec. 41.“IMPORTATION OF PERSONAL BAGGAGE OF

PASSENGERS WITHOUT ENTRY.

“24.—(1.) The conditions subject to which the personal baggage of a passenger in any ship or aircraft, not being dutiable goods, may be imported without entry are as follows:—

(a)the passenger shall make a declaration in accordance with the appropriate form setting out—

 (i) the number and description of the packages comprised in the personal baggage;

 (ii) the description of all goods contained in the personal baggage—

(A) which are intended for gift, sale, exchange or trade;

(B) which are landed for some other person; or

(C) which are not his personal effects;

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 195 .

  Statutory Rules 1920, No. 203, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Customs Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1954, No. 21.

5030.—PRICE 5D. 9/10.12.1954.

 

(iii) the particulars specified in the form in relation to those goods; and

(iv) in the case of a passenger in a ship—the particulars specified in the form in relation to all other goods, being goods of a kind specified in the form, which he is importing in the ship, whether or not the goods are contained in the personal baggage;

(b)the baggage shall be unshipped only by authority, shall be landed only at a landing place and shall not be removed from the place of examination except by authority; and

(c) the baggage of each passenger shall be unshipped as soon as practicable after the arrival of the ship or aircraft at the port or airport, as the case may be, of destination of the passenger and shall not be permitted to remain on board during the convenience of the passenger.

“(2.) The last preceding sub-regulation does not require a married woman who is travelling with her husband and is disembarking at the same port or airport, or a child under the age of eighteen years, to make a declaration relating to her or his personal baggage or, in the case of a passenger in a ship, other specified goods which she or he is importing in the ship, but the personal baggage of the married woman or child, not being dutiable goods, may be imported without entry if—

(a) in the case of the married woman, the husband; or

(b)in the case of a child travelling with his parent or guardian, the parent or guardian,

includes in the declaration made by him the particulars relating to the personal baggage and, in the case of a passenger in a ship, the specified goods, of the married woman or child.

“(3.) Where the Collector is satisfied that, by reason of illiteracy or any other sufficient reason, a passenger is unable to make the declaration referred to in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, the personal baggage of the passenger, not being dutiable goods, may be imported without entry and without the passenger making the declaration.

“(4.) In this regulation—

‘personal effects’ means personal effects as prescribed by departmental by-laws for the purpose of sub-item (A) of Item 409 of the Customs Tariff 1933-1954 or that sub-item as proposed to be altered by a Customs Tariff alteration proposed in Parliament;

‘the appropriate form’ means—

(a)in the case of a passenger in a ship—Form 5A; and

(b)in the case of a passenger in an aircraft—Form 5B.”.

2. The Schedule to the Customs Regulations is amended by omitting Form 5A and inserting in its stead the following forms:—

*Delete if inapplicable.

FORM 5A.					Sec. 41.
AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS.		Reg. 24.
SHIPS’ PASSENGER’S DECLARATION.
I,			hereby declare—
1. That I travelled to Australia by the ship					and
am disembarking at
2. That my address in Australia				is
				will be
3. That my occupation is
4.* That I was accompanied on the voyage by my wife
and the undermentioned			child	under eighteen years of age:—
			children
who	is	disembarking at the same place as myself.
	are

5.* That this declaration includes the particulars relating to the personal baggage and the goods which the persons specified in the last preceding paragraph of this declaration are importing in the ship.

6. That the following baggage comprises the whole of			my		personal baggage
			our
landed or to be landed from the ship:—
Number of Trunks.	Number of Boxes.	Number of Suitcases.		Number of other Packages.		Total Pieces of Baggage.

7. That the whole of the said baggage has been or will be landed at

8. That the goods listed hereunder comprise all goods in the said personal baggage—

(a)which are intended for gift, sale, exchange or trade;

(b) which are landed for some other person; or

(c) which are not	my		personal effects.
	our
Description of Goods.		Quantity.		Country Where Acquired.	Price Paid or Value.

9. That the following particulars are particulars of all—

(a) fur apparel;

(b)cigarettes, cigars or tobacco;

(c) spirituous liquors;

(d)motor cars, vans or trucks;

(e) machinery, plant or equipment;

(f) cinematograph films;

(g)firearms or other dangerous weapons;

(h) narcotic drugs;

(i)essences of wine or essences of spirituous liquors;

(j)saddles, bridles, horse rugs or horse brushes;

(k) animals or animal products (including meats, skins, wool, hair, horns, hoofs, bones, dried blood and feathers);

(l)germ cultures, microbes, viruses, vaccines or bacterial cultures;

(m) insects at any stage of development; and

(n)plants, parts of plants, fruits or seeds,

which	I am	importing in the ship and which are not listed in the preceding
	we are
paragraph of this declaration:—
Description of Goods.			Quantity.	Country Where Acquired.					Price Paid or Value.
10.* That the value of English Bank Notes which					I am		importing in the
					we are
ship is
11.* That the value of furniture and household goods which						I am		importing in the ship is
						we are

Signature of Passenger.

Declared before me at on the

day of , 19 .

Customs Officer.

FORM 5B.

Sec. 41.

AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS.

Reg. 24.

AIRCRAFT PASSENGER’S DECLARATION.

AIRCRAFT	AIRPORT
I,	declare—
1. That I am a resident of		, and that
my address in Australia	is
	will be

2. That I am accompanied by the following-named members of my family, whose baggage is included in this declaration:—

3. That the number of packages in which the baggage is included is

4. That all articles which are not personal effects are listed below.

Description of Goods.	Country Where Acquired.	Price Paid or Value.
Total

Signature of Passenger.

Declared before me at on the

day of , 19 .

Customs Officer.

Printed for the GOVERNMENT of the COMMONWEALTH by A. J. ARTHUR at the Government Printing Office, Canberra.