Export Control (Hardwood Wood Chips) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1) (Cth)

Export Control (Hardwood Wood Chips) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 43

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under theExport Control Act 1982.

Dated 6 April 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

Wilson Tuckey

Minister for Forestry and Conservation

Export Control (Hardwood Wood Chips) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 432

made under the

Export Control Act 1982

   

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1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Export Control (Hardwood Wood Chips) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3Amendment of Export Control (Hardwood Wood Chips) Regulations 1996

Schedule 1 amends the Export Control (Hardwood Wood Chips) Regulations 1996.

Schedule 1Amendments

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[1]Paragraph 2 (a)

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  ensures that, from the commencement of this paragraph, hardwood wood chips that are derived from native hardwood forests are permitted to be exported only if:

  • (i)

    they are derived from a region to which a Regional Forest Agreement applies; or

  • (ii)

    they are exported under a restricted shipment licence; and

[2]Subregulation 24 (1)

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• (1)

  A person may apply, in writing, for a licence to export a shipment of hardwood wood chips from a region to which no Regional Forest Agreement applies.

[3]Subregulation 25 (2)

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• (2)

  Before deciding whether to grant a restricted shipment licence, the Minister must consider:

  • (a)

    the need to protect areas that are or may be required to establish a comprehensive, adequate and representative national forest reserve system; and

  • (b)

    any other relevant matter.

[4]Regulation 27, heading

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27Other conditions or restrictions of restricted shipment licences

[5]Subregulation 27 (2)

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granted for the purpose set out in paragraph 24 (1) (a)

[6]After subregulation 27 (2)

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• (3)

  The Export Control (Hardwood Woodchips) (Monitoring Fee) Orders do not apply to a restricted shipment licence granted after 31 March 2000.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1996 No. 206, as amended by 1998 Nos. 54 and 311; 1999 Nos. 87, 282 and 328.

2. Made by the Governor-General on 6 April 2000, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 April 2000.