STATUTORY RULES
1973 No. 39
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1971.*
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 1901-1971.
Dated this twenty-second day of February, 1973.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Customs and Excise.
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Amendments of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations†
1. Regulation 9 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—
Prohibition of export of minerals, &c.
“9. (1) In this regulation, a reference to an authorized person shall be read as a reference to a person authorized in writing by the Minister of State for Minerals and Energy, for the purposes of this regulation, to approve the exportation from Australia of goods to which this regulation applies.
“(2) The following goods are goods to which this regulation applies:—
(a) ores containing copper or tin, whether or not they have been subjected to processing on treatment; mineral or metallic substances produced in the course of processing or treatment of those ores; copper anodes, copper cathodes, copper ingots, copper rods, copper scrap and copper refinery shapes in the form of ingots, wire bars, billets, cakes, rolling blocks or ingot bars; copper alloys in the form of ingots, billets, cakes, rolling blocks or ingot bars and copper alloy scrap; refined tin in the form of ingots or in any other refinery form;
(b) alumina;
(c) natural gas, whether liquefied or not, liquefied petroleum gas, and condensate;
(d) all other minerals including those other minerals that have been subjected to processing or treatment; substances produced in the course of processing or treatment of those other minerals but not including refined products obtained by or from processing or treatment of those other minerals and goods into which products, whether refined or not, obtained by or from processing or treatment of those other minerals have been converted.
* Notified in the Commonwealth 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; 1970, Nos. 34, 68, 89, 106 and 121; 1972, No. 210; and 1973, Nos. 4 and 7.
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“(3) The exportation from Australia of goods to which this regulation applies is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued by the Minister of State for Minerals and Energy or by an authorized person is produced to the Collector.”.
2. Regulation 11 of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—
Prohibition of export except with approval of Minister of State for Minerals and Energy or authorized person.
“11. (1) A reference in this regulation to an authorized person shall be read as a reference to a person authorized in writing by the Minister of State for Minerals and Energy to approve, for the purposes of these Regulations, the exportation from Australia of goods specified in the Ninth Schedule.
“(2) The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Ninth Schedule is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued by the Minister of State for Minerals and Energy or by an authorized person is produced to the Collector.”.
Seventh Schedule.
3. The Seventh Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is repealed.
Ninth Schedule.
4. The Ninth Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations is amended by omitting from the heading the words “the australian atomic energy commission” and substituting the words “the minister of state for minerals and energy or an authorized person”.
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