Statutory Rules
1980 No. 358
REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 19011
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901.
Dated this fourth day of December 1980.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
JOHN MOORE
Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs
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AMENDMENT OF THE CUSTOMS (PROHIBITED EXPORTS)
REGULATIONS2
Prohibition against export except with approval of Minister for Primary Industry
1. Regulation 5 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-regulation:
“(1) A reference in this regulation to an authorized officer shall be read as a reference to a person who is—
(a) an officer or employee of the public service of the Commonwealth, a State or the Northern Territory; or
(b) an officer of, or employed by, an authority of the Commonwealth, a State or the Northern Territory,
being a person authorized in writing by the Minister of State for Primary Industry to approve, for the purposes of these Regulations, the exportation of goods specified in the Third Schedule.”.
Saving
2. Notwithstanding the amendment of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations effected by regulation 1, an authorization given to an officer of the Department of Primary Industry under regulation 5 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations as in force immediately before the commencement of these Regulations shall be deemed to be an authorization under regulation 5 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations as amended by these Regulations.
NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 12 December 1980.
2. Statutory Rules 1958 No. 5 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1980 No. 21 and see also Statutory Rules 1980 Nos. 21, 61, 72, 76, 82, 99, 110, 212 and 273.