National Security (Supplementary) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1945. No. 37.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1943.

 

Dated this fourteenth day of March, 1945.

HENRY

Governor-General.

 

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

 

R. V. KEANE

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

Exemption of certain goods from Customs Duty.

Regulation 53‡ of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) The provisions of the last preceding sub-regulation shall not, with respect to any person specified in paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e) thereof, apply to—

(a) goods for sale or exchange or exceeding in value Ten pounds sterling in any period of twelve months;

(b)goods being cigars, cigarettes, tobacco or spirituous liquors except in such quantities as the Comptroller-General of Customs considers to be reasonable to meet the immediate needs of the person to whom the goods are

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15th March, 1945.

Statutory Rules 1940, No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1944, No. 157 and also Statutory Rules 1944, Nos. 162 and 188; and 1945, No. 18.

‡Statutory Rules 1943, No. 210, as amended by Statutory Rules 1944, No. 188.

1143.—Price 3d.

addressed or, if brought to Australia by a person specified in paragraph (b) of that sub-regulation, to meet the immediate needs of that person;

(c) goods sent by means other than the post unless in special circumstances those other means are approved by the Comptroller-General of Customs; or

(d) goods sent by any person specified in paragraph (b) of that sub-regulation, the outside container of which does not bear the names of the sender and of his unit or organization unless, in any particular case, the Comptroller-General of Customs directs that it is unnecessary for those names to be borne on the outside container,”.

 

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