Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 161.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1936.*

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 Custom Act 1901-1936.

Dated this sixth day of November, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

J. M. FRASER

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendments of the Customs Regulations. 

1. Regulation 75 of the Custom Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (ii) and (iii) of sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in their stead the following paragraphs:—

“(ii) No label bearing the word ‘old’ or any word or words which, in the opinion of the Collector, would reasonably lead to the belief that the spirit was old shall be applied to spirit of less than five years’ maturity.

(iii) No label bearing the words ‘very old’ or any word or words which, in the opinion of the Collector, would reasonably lead to the belief that the spirit was very old shall be applied to spirit of less than ten years’ maturity.”.

2. Regulation 108a of the Customs Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“108a.—(1.) Stores of an aircraft engaged on an overseas air service which is subject to an inter-governmental agreement may be used by the passengers and crew or for the service of the aircraft before the departure of the aircraft from her last port of departure in the Commonwealth.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 8th November, 1946.

 Statutory Rules 1926, No. 203, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 17, 95 and 121; 1928, Nos. 47, 57, 74 and 93; 1929, Nos. 25, 56 and 127; 1930, Nos. 91, 138 and 140; 1931, Nos. 16, 42 and 90; 1932, No. 90; 1983, 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. 208 and 256; and 1946, No. 127.

5734.—Price 3d.

“(2.) For the purposes of this regulation, ‘inter-governmental agreement’ means an agreement, to which the Commonwealth is a party, which provides, on a reciprocal basis, for the exemption from payment of Customs duties of the stores of aircraft of the parties to the agreement.”.

3. Regulation 129 of the Customs Regulations is amended by omitting the word “three” and inserting in its stead the word “four”.

4. Form 3 in the Schedule to the Customs Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the symbol “*” (wherever occurring); and

(b)by omitting the following footnote:—

“*Where the Country of Origin is a country within the British Empire, it is to be stated, e.g., ‘Canada’; otherwise it is to be shown as ‘Foreign’.”.

 

By Authority: L.F.