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1976 No. 262

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901.

Dated this ninth day of December, 1976.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN HOWARD

Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs.

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Amendments of the Customs Regulations 

1. Regulation 4 of the Customs Regulations and the heading immediately preceding that regulation are repealed.

2. Regulation 37 of the Customs Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following paragraph:—

“ (b) the name of the owner of the goods, the code number allocated to the owner of the goods by the Customs for the purposes of this regulation and, where the entry is being made by an agent, the name of the agent and the code number allocated to the agent by the Customs for the purposes of this regulation;”;

(b) by omitting paragraph (e) of sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following paragraph:—

“ (e) the following particulars in relation to the goods, namely, the tariff, statistical, country of origin and transaction status

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 14 December 1976.

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 203 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Customs Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1976, No. 261 and see also Statutory Rules 1976, No. 261.

classification codes, details of any other factors that affect the amount of duty payable and, except where the entry is prepared with the aid of a computer that is the property of the Commonwealth, a full description of the goods;”;

(c) by adding at the end of paragraph (k) of sub-regulation (1) the words “ and the code number allocated to the supplier of the goods by the Customs for the purposes of this regulation ”;

(d) by omitting from paragraph (r) of sub-regulation (1) the words “, in which the goods are imported or,” and substituting the words “ (if any) in which the goods are imported and, ”; and

(e) by omitting paragraph (t) of sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following paragraphs:—

“ (t) if the owner of the goods is the holder of a certificate under Part III of the Sales Tax Assessment Act (No. 1) 1930—the number of that certificate;

(ta) if the owner of the goods is not the holder of a certificate referred to in paragraph (t)—the rate and amount of any sales tax payable under a law of the Commonwealth in respect of each item on the entry and the total of those amounts; and ”.

3. Regulation 42 of the Customs Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1) the words “ One hundred dollars ” and substituting the figures “ $250 ”.

4. Regulation 49 of the Customs Regulations is amended by omitting the words “in accordance with Form 78”.

5. Regulation 124 of the Customs Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“ (4) Except with the consent of a Collector, a person to whom permission has been granted under sub-section 162 (1) of the Act to take delivery of goods shall not, unless a security referred to in that sub-section given for the payment of the duty on those goods has been enforced according to its tenor or the amount of that duty has otherwise been paid or recovered—

(a) lend, sell, pledge, mortgage, hire, give away or exchange those goods;

(b) part with possession of those goods otherwise than by way of, or for the purposes of, the exportation of those goods;

(c) otherwise dispose of those goods; or

(d) in any way alter those goods.”.

6. Regulation 161 of the Customs Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following sub-regulations:—

“ (2) Where a member of a Committee, other than a member who is an officer of the Australian Public Service, is, for the purpose of attending a meeting of the Committee, necessarily absent overnight from the city or town in which he normally resides, he is entitled to be paid an allowance of an amount equal to the sum of the amounts that would have been payable to him under regulation 75a of the Public Service Regulations as in force from time to time if he had been, at the time of that absence, an officer of the Australian Public Service included in the Second Division of that Service and that absence had been an absence overnight from his headquarters within the meaning of Division I of Part III of those Regulations for the purpose of performing his duties as such an officer.

“ (2a) For the purposes of sub-regulation (2), the references in sub-regulations 75a (3) and (5) of the Public Service Regulations to the Board shall be read as references to the Minister.”.

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