STATUTORY RULES.
1956. No. 53.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1954.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901-1954.
Dated this fifteenth day of June, 1956.
W. J. SLIM
Governor-General.
By His Excellency's Command,
(Sgd.) F. M. Osborne
Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
AMENDMENTS OF THE CUSTOMS (PROHIBITED EXPORTS) REGULATIONS.†
Prohibition against export except with approval of Department of Shipping and Transport.
1. Regulation 7 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed.
2. After regulation 13 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Prohibition against export except with approval of Australian Atomic Energy Commission.
“13A. The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Twelfth Schedule is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission is produced to the Collector.”.
Repeal.
3. Regulation 15 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed.
First Schedule.
4. The First Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting after item 5 the following item:—
“5A | Maize contained in second-hand bags”;
and
(b) by omitting item 7.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1956.
† Statutory Rules 1953, No. 85, as amended by Statutory Rules 1954, Nos. 76 and 98.
2499/55.—PRICE 3D. 9/22.2.1956.
Second Schedule, Part I.
5. Part I. of the Second Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting alter item 11 the following item:—
“11A | Machinery manufactured or partly manufactured in the United States of America or in Canada, and of the following kinds, namely, agricultural machinery, tractors and earthmoving equipment”; |
(b) by inserting after item 12 the following item:—
"12A | Motor trucks (including utilities on commercial chassis) manufactured or partly manufactured in the United States of America or in Canada”; |
and
(c) by omitting item 19.
Third Schedule.
6. The Third Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting item 1 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“1 | Agricultural machinery of the following kinds (and parts for machinery of those kinds), namely, header harvesters and reaper threshers manufactured in Australia”; |
(b) by omitting item 9;
(c) by omitting from item 14 the words “and flax chaff”;
(d) by omitting item 17;
(e) by omitting item 21 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“21 | Meat (other than canned meat) of the following kinds, namely, beef, veal, mutton and lamb, and edible offal of cattle and sheep”; |
and
(f) by inserting after item 30 the following item:—
"30A | Stockfoods and animal and poultry meals or mashes containing one or more of the following, namely, bran, pollard, blood meal, fish meal, liver meal, flax meal, meat meal, meat and bone meal, oilseed meal, rice meal and wheat meal”. |
Fourth Schedule.
7. The Fourth Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting item 1.
Fifth Schedule,
8. The Fifth Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed.
Seventh Schedule.
9. The Seventh Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting items 1, 2 and 6.
Eighth Schedule.
10. The Eighth Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 and inserting in their stead the following items:—
“1 | Mica |
2 | Tinplate in sheets”. |
Ninth Schedule
11. The Ninth Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting item 2 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“2 | Beryllium metal, alloys and compounds, ores and concentrates”; |
(b) by inserting after item 2 the following item:—
“2A | Commercial ores and concentrates of tantalum and columbium”; |
(c) by omitting item 4 and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“4 | (1.) Crude or partly refined mineral sands containing zircon, rutile, ilmenite or monazite |
| (2.) Concentrates of zircon, rutile or ilmenite containing monazite”; |
(d) by omitting paragraph (b) of item 6;
(e) by omitting paragraph (i) of item 6 and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
"(i) rails (light or heavy) and sleepers;";
(f) by inserting after item 6 the following item:—
“6A | Lithium ores and concentrates”; |
and
(g) by omitting items 8 to 17 (both inclusive) and inserting in their stead the following items:—
“8 | Ores and concentrates of monazite and other thorium bearing minerals |
9 | Portland cement |
10 | Tantalum and columbium metals and tantalum and columbium alloys in the form of plates, bars, strips and powders |
11 | Tantalum and columbium oxides and tantalum and columbium salts |
12 | Wires and cables for the conduction of electricity”. |
Twelfth Schedule.
12. The Twelfth Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—
TWELFTH SCHEDULE.
Reg. 13Ä.
GOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE APPROVAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION IS PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR.
Item No. | Description of Goods. |
1 | Accelerating machines, and magnets specifically designed for use in or with those machines, capable of imparting energies in excess of 1,000,000 electron volts to a nuclear particle or an ion |
2 | Acceleration tubes capable of being used in mass spectrographs and mass spectrometers |
3 | Artificial graphite in the form of blocks or rods from which a cube of 2 inches side or greater can be cut and having a boron content of one part per million or less |
4 | Bismuth metal and its derivatives |
5 | (1.) Centrifuges with a peripheral speed of 305 metres per second or more, wholly made of, or lined with, aluminium or nickel or an alloy containing 60 per centum or more of nickel |
| (2.) Centrifugal bowls made of aluminium or nickel or an alloy containing 60 per centum or more of nickel |
TWELFTH SCHEDULE—continued.
Item No. | Description of Goods. |
6 | (1.) Cerium and any of the other rare earth metals |
| (2.) Alloys, compounds and mixtures which contain cerium or any of the other rare earth metals |
7 | (1.) Deuterium |
| (2.) Compounds, mixtures and solutions containing deuterium in which the ratio of the number of deuterium atoms to the number of hydrogen atoms exceeds 1 : 5,000 |
8 | Electromagnetic ion separators including mass spectrographs, and mass spectrometers, capable of use for any purpose |
9 | Equipment capable of being used for the separation of isotopes of uranium |
10 | (1.) Ferro uranium |
| (2.) Mixtures containing ferro uranium |
11 | Focusing tubes capable of being used in mass spectrographs and mass spectrometers |
12 | Leak detecting instruments of the mass spectrometer type |
13 | Lithium metal and alloys |
14 | (1.) Mesothorium compounds |
| (2.) Mixtures containing mesothorium compounds |
15 | Minerals, raw or treated (including residues and tailings) which contain by weight at least 0.05 per centum of uranium or thorium or uranium and thorium |
16 | Nuclear radiation detection instruments and components for those instruments other than— |
| (a) photographic film or equipment containing that film; and |
| (b) medical X-ray equipment |
17 | (1.) Plutonium or uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235 |
| (2.) Material artificially enriched by either the isotope 233 or the isotope 235 and any other fissionable materials |
18 | Positive ion sources capable of being used in accelerating machines or mass spectrometers |
19 | (1.) Radium |
| (2.) Mixtures containing radium |
20 | Refractory materials containing 95 per centum or more by weight of— |
| (a) zirconia; |
| (b) beryllium; |
| (c) sintered alumina and magnesia; |
| (d) fused alumina and fused magnesia; or |
| (e) any two or more of the compounds specified in the last four preceding paragraphs |
21 | (1.) Thorium |
| (2.) Thorium compounds |
| (3.) Mixtures containing thorium or its compounds |
22 | (1.) Uranium |
| (2.) Uranium compounds |
| (3.) Mixtures containing uranium or its compounds |
23 | Vacuum diffusion pumps having an internal diameter at the inlet jet of 305 millimetres or greater or capable of a pumping speed in excess of 1,500 litres per second at a pressure of less than 0.0001 millimetres of mercury |
24 | Zirconium metal, alloys and compounds |
By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.