Customs Regulations (Amendment)

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 twenty-third day of July, 1947.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendments of the Customs Regulations.†

1. After regulation 4 of the Customs Regulations the following heading and regulation are inserted:—

“Aircraft.—Security.

“4a. The owner or operator of an aircraft shall, when required by the Collector, furnish security for the protection of the revenue in accordance with Form 68a.”.

2. Regulation 45 of the Customs Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) Goods may be unshipped from an aircraft before entry is passed where the owner or operator of the aircraft has furnished security in accordance with Form 68a.”.

3. The Schedule to the Customs Regulations is amended by inserting after Form 68 the following form:—

“Form 68a.

Reg. 4a.

Commonwealth of Australia.

AIRCRAFT: SECURITY TO THE CUSTOMS.

By this Security the subscribers are, pursuant to the Customs Act 1901-1936, bound to the Customs of the Commonwealth of Australia in the sum of              , subject only to this condition that if—

1. All goods and packages subject to the control of the Customs which at any time during the continuance of this Security are landed from or are

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1947.

† Statutory Rules 1926, No. 203, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 17, 95 and 121; 1928, Nos. 47, 57, 74 and 95; 1929, Nos. 25, 56 and 127; 1930, Nos. 91, 138 and 140; 1931, Nos. 16, 42 and 90; 1932, No. 90; 1933, Nos. 21, 105, 106 and 129; 1934, Nos. 109 and 127; 1935, Nos. 1, 41, 69 and 113; 1936, Nos. 49 and 163; 1938, No. 111; 1939, No. 157; 1940, Nos. 203 and 256; and 1946. Nos. 127 and 161.

2304.—Price 3d. 8/9.6.1947.

to be loaded upon any aircraft belonging to or under the control of

     (hereinafter called ‘the company’), or for which the company is agent, and are upon or at any aerodrome in the Commonwealth of Australia are—

(a) safely and securely kept upon or at the said aerodrome until such goods and packaged are removed therefrom by authority within the meaning of the said Act, and in accordance with the said Act, or cease to be subject to the control of the Customs; and

(b) dealt with in all respects in accordance with the said Act to the satisfaction of the Collector of Customs; and

2. The subscribers, on demand, pay an amount equivalent to the Customs duty on any such goods and packages not accounted for or delivered to the satisfaction of the Collector of Customs; and

3. Whenever and as often as—

(a) any goods which according to any invoice or other commercial document received by an owner within the meaning of the said Act of any such package as aforesaid were or should have been contained in such package; and

(b) such goods are not contained in the package when or at anytime before the package is moved from the said aerodrome in manner aforesaid,

the subscribers prove to the satisfaction of the Collector of Customs that such goods were not in fact contained in the package at the time when the package came upon or to the aerodrome; and

4. All goods and packages subject to the control of the Customs at any time during the continuance of this Security received by the company at any aerodrome in the Commonwealth for conveyance upon an aircraft belonging to or under the control of the company or for which the company is agent and delivery at another aerodrome in the Commonwealth are—

(a) duly loaded, conveyed and delivered; and

(b) delivered by authority within the meaning of the said Act and not otherwise; and

(c) dealt with in all respects in accordance with the said Act to the satisfaction of the Collector of Customs; and

5. The subscribers, on demand, pay the duty legally leviable on all aircraft stores consumed on any aircraft as aforesaid while in the Commonwealth or between aerodromes in the Commonwealth; and

6. The provisions of the said Act and the Customs Regulations are duly complied with,

then this Security shall be thereby discharged.

Dated at the day of , 19 .

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.