Sanctions (Prohibited Exports) Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1935. No. 116.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE SANCTIONS ACT 1935.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Sanctions Act 1935.

Dated this fifteenth day of November, 1935

(SGD.) ISAAC A. ISAACS

 

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

 

Sanctions (Prohibited Exports) Regulations.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sanctions (Prohibited Exports) Regulations.

Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall take effect on and from the eighteenth day of November, 1935.

Prohibition of exportation of certain goods.

3.—(1.) The exportation to Italy, or to any other country for re-exportation to Italy, of the goods specified in the Schedule to these Regulations is prohibited, unless the consent in writing of the Minister for Trade and Customs to the exportation of the goods has first been obtained.

(2.) The exporter of any goods of the kinds specified in the Schedule to these Regulations shall, if required by the Minister, produce evidence to the Minister’s satisfaction that the goods have not reached Italy, and, if the exporter fails to do so, the shall be deemed to have exported the goods in contravention of these Regulations, unless he satisfies the Minister that he did not consent to or connive at the goods reaching Italy:

Provided that it shall be a good defence in any proceedings against the exporter in respect of the exportation of such goods if he proves to the satisfaction of the Court that he did not consent to or connive at the goods reaching Italy.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1935.

5313.—50/14.11.1935.—Price 3d.

(3.) No goods the exportation of which to Italy is prohibited by these Regulations shall be shipped or delivered as stores on a vessel or aircraft proceeding to Italy, unless the Collector of Customs of the State in which the goods are to be shipped or delivered is satisfied that the goods are required for use or consumption on that vessel or aircraft.

(4.) Any person who exports goods, or ships or delivers goods, in contravention of these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: One hundred pounds or imprisonment for six months.

THE SCHEDULE.

GOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH TO ITALY IS PROHIBITED.

1. Arms, ammunition and implements of war, including—

(a) (i) rifles and carbines and their barrels;

(ii) machine guns, automatic rifles and machine pistols of all calibres, and their barrels;

(iii) guns, howitzers and mortars of all calibres, and their mountings, barrels and recoil mechanisms;

(iv) ammunition for the arms enumerated under sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph, filled and unfilled projectiles for the arms enumerated under sub-paragraph (iii) of this paragraph, and prepared propellant charges for those arms;

(v) grenades, bombs, torpedoes, and mines, filled or unfilled, and apparatus for their use or discharge; and

(vi) tanks, armoured vehicles and armoured trains, and armour plate of all kinds;

(b) vessels of war of all kinds, including aircraft carriers and submarines;

(c) (i) aircraft assembled or dismantled, both heavier and lighter than air, and their propellers or air screws, fuselages, aerial gun mounts and frames, hulls, tail units and undercarriage units; and

(ii) aircraft engines;

(d) revolvers and automatic pistols of weight in excess of 1 pound 6 ounces (630 grammes) and ammunition therefor;

(e) (i) flame throwers and all other projectors used for chemical or incendiary warfare;

(ii) mustard gas, lewisite, ethyldichlorarsine, methyldichlorarsine and all other products destined for chemical or incendiary warfare; and

(iii) powder for war purposes and explosives.

2. Horses, mules, donkeys, camels and all other transport animals.

3. Rubber.

4. (i) Bauxite aluminum and alumina (aluminum oxide), iron ore and scrap iron; chromium, manganese, nickel, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, their ores and ferro alloys, and also ferro molybdenum, ferro silicon, ferro silicon manganese and ferro silicon manganese aluminium; tin and tin ore; and

(ii) all crude forms of the minerals and metals mentioned in the last preceding sub-paragraph, and their ores, scrap and alloys.

 

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