EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1984 NO. 263
CUSTOMS (PROHIBITED EXPORTS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Issued by the Authority of the Minister of State for Industry and Commerce.
Regulation 10 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations provides that the exportation from Australia of the drugs specified in the Eighth Schedule to the Regulation is prohibited unless certain prescribed requirements are complied with.
Australia is a signatory to the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961 and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971.
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, at its Eighth Special Session in February 1984 made a number of decisions relating to drugs of dependence.
The purpose of the attached regulation is to ensure compliance with those decisions by adding additional drugs to the Eighth Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations.