PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1910.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Customs Act 1901-1910, should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this 21st day of February, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

DENMAN,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister for Trade and Customs.

The Customs Regulations 1909 (Statutory Rules 1909, No. 126) are hereby amended as follows :—

Regulation 31. By the addition of the following words :—" A list of Customable articles and opium owned by the master, officers, and crew of the ship shall also accompany Form 8, and shall be in accordance with Form 9b."

Form 9. By the deletion of the following words :

" Note.—Dutiable goods in possession of the crew must be shown on the back of this list ; "

" Officers' and crews' private stores ; " and

" Officers' and crews' private trade."

By the addition of a new form (9b) as attached.

Form 9b.

Reg. 31.

AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS.

Port of State of

List of Customable Articles and Opium owned by the Master, Officers, and Crew of the Ship

Master from , 19 .

1. This list must be completed in readiness to be handed to the Customs Officer who first visits the vessel. It must be signed by every member of the crew (including the master and officers). Each man must state opposite his signature the quantity of dutiable articles in his possession. If he has nothing he must state " nil " or " nothing."

2. Any dutiable article, the property of the master or any member of the crew, found in the vessel and not enumerated in this list, will be liable to forfeiture, and the owner thereof to prosecution.

3. All articles reported on this list must be produced, and, if necessary, placed in a secure place to be sealed up by a Customs Officer.

C.2746.—Price 3d.

Articles in Private Possession of Officers and Crew.

To the Principal Officer of Customs.

We, the officers and members of the crew of the vessel mentioned on the other side hereof, whose names appear hereunder, declare that we have in our own possession, respectively, as our private property, the quantity of dutiable goods, and no more, placed opposite our signatures, and we severally undertake that neither these goods nor any portion thereof shall be landed without authority of the proper Officer of Customs. The goods we now produce to be placed under your seal if necessary :—

Signature.	Rank or Rating.	Tobacco.	Cigars.	Cigarettes.	Spirits Potable.	Spirits Perfumed.	Wines.	Opium.	Any other Articles, including Feathers, Silk, Lace, Silverware, Jewellery, &c., intended as a Gift to or for Sale, Barter or Exchange with, any person in Australia or elsewhere, or being the Property of any person in Australia or elsewhere.
		lb.	No.	No.	galls.	galls.	galls.	lb.

I declare that the foregoing list gives full details of all the dutiable goods, being private trade and stores owned by or in the possession of myself and of all the officers and members of my crew at the time of entry into the port of

Master.

Signed and declared this day of 19 in the presence of

Collector.

Checked,

Officer of Customs.

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Note.—The Master will be held responsible for the accuracy of this list at every port. Should any of the articles mentioned in this list be landed and duty paid at any port in Australia, the fact must be indorsed hereon by the proper officer.

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Acting Government Printer for the State of Victoria.