STATUTORY RULES.
1947. No. .
REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1936.*
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 1901-1936.
Dated this third day of December, 1947,
W. J. McKell
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(Sgd.) BEN COURTICE
Minister of State for Trade and Customs.
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Amendment of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations.†
Third Schedule.
The Third Schedule to the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting in the second column of item 3a, after the word “thermometers” the words “(other than clinical thermometers bearing the monogram of the National Physical Laboratory of Great Britain)”;
(b) by omitting sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 2 from the third column of that item and inserting in its stead the following sub-paragraph:—
“(c) a statement that the thermometer has been tested by an authority approved by the Comptroller-General with tests similar to those applied by the National Physical Laboratory of Great Britain and has been found to comply, as to accuracy of the scale, with the requirements of the British Standard Specification for Clinical Maximum Thermometers No. 691—1936; and”; and
(c) by adding at the end of the third column of that item the following paragraph:—
“3. Each thermometer shall pass such test as the Comptroller-General may prescribe.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1947.
† Statutory Rules 1934, No. 152, as amended to date. For previous Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1943, No. 11; and see also Statutory Rules 1945, Nos. 34 and 144; 1946, Nos. 59, 77 and 169; and 1947, Nos. 66, 81 and 119.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
5952.—Price 3d. 9/22.9.1947.