Statutory Rules
1973 No. 248
REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1971.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Customs Act 1901-1971.
Dated this fourth day of December, 1973.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command’.
(Sgd) LIONEL MURPHY
Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
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Amendment Of The Customs (Prohibited Exported) Regulations†
Prohibition of the export of minerals, petroleum, etc.
Regulation 9 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following paragraph:—
“(c) petroleum and petroleum products;”; and
* Notified in the Australia Government Gazette on 1973.
† Statutory Rules 1958, No. 5, as amended by Statutory Rules 1959, No. 5; 1961, Nos. 16 and 112; 1963, Nos. 129 and 130; 1964, No. 144; 1965, No. 136; 1966, Nos. 70 and 75; 1967, Nos. 42, 59 and 123; 1968, Nos. 46 83, 101, 153, 160 and 162; 1969, Nos. 11, 21, 22 and 219; and 1970, Nos. 34, 68, 89, 106 and 121.
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“(4) For the purposes of paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2)—
‘petroleum’ means—
(a) any naturally occurring hydrocarbon, whether in a gaseous, liquid or solid state;
(b) any naturally occurring mixture of hydrocarbons, whether in a gaseous, liquid or solid state; or
(c) any naturally occurring mixture of a hydrocarbon or hydrocarbons, whether in a gaseous, liquid or solid state, and one or more of the following, that is to say, hydrogen sulphide, nitrogen, helium and carbon dioxide;
‘petroleum product’ means—
(a) any hydrocarbon or mixture of hydrocarbons produced by subjecting petroleum to a process of refining or produced from petroliferous minerals; or
(b) any mixture of a hydrocarbon or hydrocarbons so produced with another substance or other substances;
‘petroliferous mineral’ means any naturally occurring mineral from which any hydrocarbon, whether in a gaseous, liquid or solid state, may be produced.”.