EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1986 No. 313
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industry
EXPORT CONTROL ACT 1982
EXPORT CONTROL (GENERAL) REGULATIONS (REPEAL)
Sub-section 25(1) of the Export Control Act 1982 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations not inconsistent with the Act prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
Section 7 of the Act provides that regulations may prohibit the export of prescribed goods unless specified conditions or restrictions are complied with. Section 3 of the Act defines prescribed goods as goods that are declared by the regulations to be prescribed goods for the purposes of the Act.
Sub-regulation 4(1) of the Export Control (General) Regulations describes various kinds of fruit, fruit products, vegetables and vegetable products as prescribed goods and therefore as subject to the conditions and restrictions on export specified in the Regulations.
The Minister for Primary Industry proposes, under the Export Control (Orders) Regulations, to introduce on 1 November 1986 orders to provide regulatory controls for the export of the goods to which the Regulations apply. The introduction of those Orders is in accordance with the Government’s intention to provide a more flexible legislative framework for the regulation of the export of prescribed goods.
The Export Control (General) Regulations (Repeal), which will come into operation on 1 November 1986, will repeal the Export Control (General) Regulations.