Weapons of Mass Destruction Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1996

No. 176 1

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Weapons of Mass Destruction Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Prevention of Proliferation) Act 1995.

Dated 14 August 1996.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

IAN Mclachlan

Minister for Defence

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Weapons of Mass Destruction Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Regulation 5 (Notice prohibiting supply or export of goods or provision of services)

2.1  Add at the end:

 “(2) If a notice does not set out the Minister’s reasons, or some of the Minister’s reasons, for giving the notice because disclosure of those reasons is not in the national interest, that fact must be stated in the notice.”.

3.   Regulation 7 (Storage of seized goods—prescribed procedures)

3.1   Subregulation 7 (2):

Add at the end:

“; and  (c) the need to preserve the condition and value of the goods as far as is practicable.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 August 1996.

2. Statutory Rules 1995 No. 373.