Statutory Rules
1973 No. 162
REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1971.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Customs Act 1901-1971.
Dated this twenty-third day of August, 1973.
PAUL HASLUCK
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
LIONEL MURPHY
Attorney-General.
Amendments of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations†
Importation of blasphemous, indecent, obscene, &c., goods.
Regulation 4a of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulations (2) and (3) the word “Minister” (wherever occurring) and substituting the word “Attorney-General”; and
(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—
“(4) The Attorney-General may, by writing under his hand, delegate all or any of his powers, duties or functions under this regulation except this power of delegation.
“(5) A power, duty or function so delegated may be exercised or performed by the person to whom it is delegated in accordance with the instrument of delegation.
“(6) A delegation under this regulation is revocable at will and does not prevent the exercise of a power or the performance of a duty or function by the Attorney-General.”.
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 30 August 1973.
† Statutory Rules 1956, No. 90, as amended by Statutory Rules 1958, Nos. 6 and 67; 1959, Nos. 17, 31 and 93; 1960, No. 22; 1961, No. 117; 1962, No. 82; 1963, No. 26; 1964, Nos. 25 and 39; 1965, Nos. 81, 91, 135, 167 and 190; 1966, No. 95; 1967, Nos. 41, 58, 114 and 178; 1968, Nos. 100, 141 and 161; 1969, Nos. 2, 7, 10, 39, 43 and 218; 1970, Nos. 8, 72, 105 and 194; 1972, No. 97; and 1973, Nos. 5, 6, 42, 43, 89 and 93.