Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations (Amendment)

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 3691

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Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Customs Act 1901.

 Dated 21 December 1981.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN MOORE

Minister of State for
Business and Consumer Affairs

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Importation of radiotelephony equipment

  Regulation 4M of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended—

 (a) by inserting in sub-regulation (4) “exceeding one but” after “frequencies”;

 (b) by omitting paragraph (4) (b) and substituting the following paragraph:

 “(b) on which transmission on a carrier frequency in the range 26.965 megahertz to 27.405 megahertz (inclusive) other than—

 (i) a permissible carrier frequency; or

 (ii) 27.230 megahertz, 27.240 megahertz, 27.250 megahertz, 27.260 megahertz, 27.270 megahertz, 27.280 megahertz or 27.330 megahertz,

 is not prevented by means of—

 (iii) an electronic component; and

 (iv) the frequency selector switch,”;

 (c) by inserting after sub-regulation (4) the following sub-regulation:

  “(4A) The importation into Australia of prescribed radiotelephony equipment that is capable of being used to transmit on a number of separate carrier frequencies exceeding one but not exceeding 12, being equipment—

 (a) the importation of which is not prohibited by sub-regulation (4); and

 (b) that is capable of being used to transmit on a permissible carrier frequency and a carrier frequency that is referred to in sub-paragraph (4) (b) (ii),

  is prohibited.”; and

 (d) by omitting the table in sub-regulation (5) and substituting the following table:

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 December 1981.

2. Statutory Rules 1956 No. 90 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1981 No. 29 and see also Statutory Rules 1981 Nos. 29, 71, 176 and 309 and Act No. 75, 1981.