Export Control (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 441

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Export Control (General) Regulations2 (Amendment)

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 Export Control Act 1982.

Dated 14 April 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN KERIN

Minister of State for Primary Industry

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Declaration of prescribed goods

1. Regulation 4 of the Export Control (General) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (2) (e), (f) and (g).

Export of prescribed goods prohibited unless conditions and restrictions complied with

2. Regulation 5 of the Export Control (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (d) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(d) in the case of fish, other than fish of the kind specified in sub-regulation (2)—the conditions and restrictions specified in the Exports (Fish) Regulations;

(da) in the case of fish of a kind specified in sub-regulation (2)—

(i) a notice of intention to export the fish, in accordance with regulation 21 of the Export Control (General) Regulations, shall have been furnished to an authorized officer;

(ii) the fish shall have been examined by an authorized officer; and

(iii) an export permit shall have been issued in respect of the fish;”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

“(2) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) (d) and (da), the following kinds of fish are specified:

(a) fish that is not intended for human consumption, being fish that—

(i) is clearly marked as not fit for human consumption; and

(ii) has been de-natured or is in such a form that it is unacceptable for human consumption;

(b) fish that was imported from a licensed foreign boat, being fish that—

(i) has not been processed in any way since it was imported; and

(ii) has not been marked with a trade description, other than a trade description, that relates to the size of the fish or that is a trade description of the kind referred to in sub-regulation 9a (1) of the Exports (Fish) Regulations; and

(c) fish that was imported after having been first landed in a port or place outside Australia, being fish that—

(i) has not been processed in any way since it was imported;

(ii) is exported in the same containers in which it was imported, no covering having been removed or added; and

(iii) bears the name of its country of origin on the outermost of the containers.”.

Schedule

3. The Schedule to the Export Control (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from Part I “1960 No. 2” and substituting “1960 Nos. 2 and 34”; and

(b) by omitting from Part V “Statutory Rules 1964 No. 28” and substituting “Statutory Rules 1955 No. 61; 1956 Nos. 20, 27 and 123; 1957 No. 36; 1958 No. 24; 1959 No. 6; 1960 Nos. 16 and 38; 1961 Nos. 20 and 111; 1962 NO. 37; 1963 Nos. 15 and 140; 1964 Nos. 11 and 28;”.

 

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 April 1983.

2. Statutory Rules 1982 No. 354.