Exports (Flour) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 177.

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REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1936 AND THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1933.*

WHEREAS by section 112 of the Customs Act 1901-1936 it is provided that the Governor-General may, by regulation, prohibit the exportation of any goods—

(a) the exportation of which would, in his opinion, be harmful to the Commonwealth; or

(b) which have not been prepared or manufactured for export under the prescribed conditions as to purity, soundness, or freedom from disease, or which do not conform to the prescribed conditions as to purity, soundness, or freedom from disease:

And whereas it is provided by the said section that the said power of prohibition shall extend to authorize the prohibition of the exportation of the goods generally, or to any specified place, and either absolutely or so as to allow of the exportation of the goods subject to any condition or restriction:

And whereas I am of opinion that the exportation of flour except subject to the conditions and restrictions prescribed by the Exports (Flour) Regulations, as amended by the following regulation, would be harmful to the Commonwealth:

Now therefore I, the Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following regulation under the Customs Act 1901-1936 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1933.

Dated this 29th day of November, 1944.

W. DUGAN

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture acting for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of the Exports (Flour) Regulations.

Export of certain flour prohibited.

Regulation 7 of the Exports (Flour) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (b) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(b) which, in the opinion of a person, or a person included in a class of persons, authorized by the Secretary, by instrument in writing published in the Gazette,to act under this paragraph, is unfit for export;”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 216.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

6831.—Price 3d. 10/7.11.1944.