Exports (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 139.

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REGULATIONS 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 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 the goods specified in the first column of the First Schedule to the Exports (General) Regulations, except subject to the conditions and restrictions prescribed by those Regulations, as amended by the following Regulations 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 Regulations under the Customs Act 1901-1936 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1933.

Dated this thirteenth day of September, 1944.

WINSTON DUGAN

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

 

Amendments of the Exports (General) Regulations. 

First Schedule —Item 3.

1. Item 3 in the First Schedule to the Exports (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by adding after paragraph 8 (in the second column) opposite to sub-item (a) the following paragraph:—

“9. The immediate containers of the juice shall not be packed in a case or other outside container until 10 days have elapsed after the completion of the canning or bottling process”;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1937, No. 68, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 286; and 1943, No. 192.

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(b) by adding after paragraph 9 (in the second column) opposite to sub-items (b), (c) and (d), the following paragraph:—

“10. The immediate containers of the juice shall not be packed in a case or other outside container until 10 days have elapsed after the completion of the canning or bottling process”; and

(c) by adding (in the second column) opposite to sub-item (e), the following paragraph:—

“2. The immediate containers of the juice shall not be packed in a case or other outside container until 10 days have elapsed after the completion of the canning or bottling process”.

First Schedule —Item 5.

2. Item 5 in the First Schedule to the Exports (General) Regulations is amended by inserting, after sub-paragraph (a)of paragraph 6 (in the second column), the following sub-paragraph:—

“(aa)The immediate containers shall not be packed in a case or other outside container until 10 days have elapsed after the completion of the canning or bottling process.”.

First Schedule —Item 9.

3. Item 9 in the First Schedule to the Exports (General) Regulations is amended by adding, after paragraph 4 (in the second column), the following paragraph:—

“(5.) The immediate containers of preserved vegetables shall not be packed in a case or other outside container until 14 days have elapsed after the completion of the canning or bottling process.”.

 

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