STATUTORY RULES.

1950. No. 36.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1949 AND THE COMMERCE (TRADE DESCRIPTIONS) ACT 1905-1933.*

WHEREAS by section 112 of the Customs Act 1901-1949 it is provided that the Governor-General may, by regulation, prohibit the exportation of any goods—

(a) the exportation of which would, in his opinion, be harmful to the Commonwealth ; or

(b) which have not been prepared or manufactured for export under the prescribed conditions as to purity, soundness, or freedom from disease, or which do not conform to the prescribed conditions as to purity, soundness, or freedom from disease :

And whereas it is provided by the said section that the said power of prohibition shall extend to authorize the prohibition of the exportation of goods generally, or to any specified place, and either absolutely or so as to allow of the exportation of the goods subject to any condition or restriction :

And whereas I am of opinion that the exportation of the goods specified in the first column of the First Schedule to the Exports (General) Regulations, except subject to the conditions and restrictions prescribed by those Regulations, as amended by the following Regulations, would be harmful to the Commonwealth :

Now therefore 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 1901-1949 and the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1933.

Dated this second day of August, 1950.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture and for on behalf of the Minister of the State for Trade and Custom.

Amendments of the Exports (General) Regulations.†

Export of certain goods prohibited except subject to conditions.

1. Regulation 7 of the Exports (General) Regulations is amended by inserting after paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) the following paragraph :—

“ (aa) the goods are, in the opinion of an officer, packed in such a manner as to ensure their arrival at their destination in a sound condition; ”

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1950.

† Statutory Rules 1937, No. 68, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 286; 1943, No. 192; 1944, No. 139; 1948, Nos. 11, 28 and 166; and 1949, No. 53.

2680.—Price 3d. 9/19.5.1950.

Fees for officers’ services.

2. Regulation 30 of the Exports (General) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation :—

“ (1.) Whenever, at the request of an exporter, the services of an officer are made available to the exporter for the purposes of these Regulations before or after official hours or on any Sunday or holiday, the exporter shall, except as provided by sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation, be charged for those services a fee at the rate of eight shillings per hour or part of an hour.”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation :—

“ (4.) For the purposes of this regulation, ‘holiday’ means any day observed as a holiday in the Public Service of the Commonwealth under section 76 of the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1948.”.

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