EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
CUSTOMS (PROHIBITED EXPORTS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
STATUTORY RULES 1987 NO. 156
ISSUED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR INDUSTRY, TECHNOLOGY AND COMMERCE
This Statutory Rule amends the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations (“the Regulations”) to correct technical deficiencies in the Regulations. The deficiencies are numbering duplications resulting from the contemporaneous processing of two recent separate amendments to the Regulations.
Statutory Rules 1987 No. 97, gazetted on 29 May 1987, imposed restrictions on the exportation of certain chemical compounds which were identified by reference to a new Schedule to the Regulations; to this end, regulation 4 of that Statutory Rule introduced a new regulation 13D, and regulation 7 introduced a new Schedule numbered “Schedule 15”.
Statutory Rules 1987 No. 115, gazetted on 15 June 1987 imposed restrictions on the exportation of militarily sensitive dual-use technology to “eastern-block” countries, which were also identified by reference to a new Schedule to the Regulations; to this end, regulation 2 of that Statutory Rule introduced new regulations 13E and 13F, and regulation 4 of that Statutory Rule introduced a new Schedule, also numbered “Schedule 15”.
Statutory Rules 1987 No.115 contained the following errors:
a. the new Regulation 13F erroneously referred to “regulation 13D” (instead of “regulation 13E”); and
b. the new “Schedule 15” introduced by regulation 4 ought to have been sequentially numbered “Schedule 16”.
This Statutory Rule corrects the errors by:
a. amending new regulation 13F to substitute correct references to new regulation 13E;
b. omitting the Schedule introduced by Statutory Rules 1987 No. 115, and substituting an identical Schedule renumbered “Schedule 16”; and
c. substituting, in new regulation 13E, references to the freshly renumbered Schedule 16;
The amendments provide as follows:
Regulation 1 is a formal machinery provision, to refer to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations as the “Principal Regulations”.
Regulation 2 amends regulation 13E by replacing references to Schedule 15 with references to the renumbered Schedule 16.
Regulation 3 amends regulation 13F by omitting incorrect references to regulation 13D, and substituting references to regulation 13E.
Regulation 4 omits the incorrectly numbered Schedule 15 and substitutes an identical Schedule numbered “Schedule 16”.