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Statutory Rules 1987 No. 3161

Customs Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901.

Dated 21 December 1987.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Barry Jones

Minister of State for Science

and Small Business

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 1988.

Principal Regulations

2. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Customs Regulations.

Entry for export—required particulars

3. Regulation 99 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraphs (2) (1) and (2) (m) respectively “Australian Export Commodity Classification” and substituting “Australian Harmonized Export Commodity Classification”.

Particulars required of goods exempted from entry for export

4. Regulation 99a of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraphs (j) and (k) respectively “Australian Export Commodity Classification” and substituting “Australian Harmonized Export Commodity Classification”.

(S.R. 370/87)—Cat. No. 16/10.12.1987


Australian Harmonized Export Commodity Classification document

5. Regulation 99b of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulation (1) and substituting the following subregulation:

“(1) A reference in regulation 99, 99a or 100 to the Australian Harmonized Export Commodity Classification is a reference to the document known as the Australian Harmonized Export Commodity Classification published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics as in force on 1 January 1988.”.

Goods exempted from entry for export

6. Regulation 100 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (c) “Australian Export Commodity Classification” and substituting “Australian Harmonized Export Commodity Classification”.

Interpretation of regulation 185 and Schedule 2

7. Regulation 184 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting subregulation (3) and substituting the following subregulation:

“(3) A reference in regulation 185 and Schedule 2 to a heading or a subheading is a reference to a heading or a subheading, as the case may be, in Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1987 and includes a reference to any subheading listed under such a heading or subheading.”.

8. Regulation 185 of the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following Regulation substituted:

Restrictions on concession orders

“185. For the purposes of subsection 269d (1) of the Act, the particular goods in respect of which a concession order shall not be made are goods classified under a heading or subheading referred to in Column 2 of an item in Schedule 2 other than any goods described in Column 3 of that item in that Schedule.”.

Schedule 2

9. Schedule 2 to the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

                                         SCHEDULE 2                      Regulation 185

GOODS IN RESPECT OF WHICH CONCESSION ORDERS SHALL NOT BE

MADE

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Item No.

Heading or subheading

Goods to which restriction does not apply

1

0401 to 1516 (inclusive)

 

2

1517

Mould release preparations

3

1518

Linoxyn


SCHEDULE 2—continued

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Item No.

Heading or subheading

Goods to which restriction does not apply

4

1519.1

 

5

1519.20.00

 

6

1520 to 2403 (inclusive)

 

7

3303.00.00 to 3306 (inclusive)

 

8

3307

Prepared room deodorisers

9

3926.20.20

 

10

4015

Gloves, mittens and mitts of the work type

11

4203

Gloves, mittens and mitts of the work type

12

4818.50.10

Urinary incontinence pants

13

6101 to 6106 (inclusive)

 

14

6107 and 6108

Urinary incontinence pants

15

6109 and 6110

 

16

6111

Babies’ napkins

17

6112 to 6115 (inclusive)

 

18

6116

Gloves, mittens and mitts of the work type

 

 

Gloves, mittens and mitts not elastic or rubberised

19

6117

 

20

6201 and 6202

 

21

6203

Loggers’ safety trousers

22

6204 to 6206 (inclusive)

 

23

6207 and 6208

 

24

6209

Babies’ napkins

25

6210

 

26

6211

Bullet proof body armour

27

6212 to 6215 (inclusive)

 

28

6217

Stockings, socks and sockettes

29

6401 to 6405 (inclusive)

Ski-boots and cross-country ski footwear

30

6406

Parts for ski-boots and cross-country ski footwear

 

 

Wooden shanks for boots, shoes or slippers

31

6501.00.00

 

32

6503.00.00

 

33

6505 and 6506

 

34

6913

 

35

7113 to 7116 (inclusive)

 

36

7117.90.00

Goods, other than of ceramic

37

8306.2

 

38

8702 and 8703

Vehicles having a gross vehicle weight of more than 2.72 tonnes

39

8704

Vehicles having a gross vehicle weight of more than 2.72 tonnes

 

 

Rock buggies, dumpers, shuttle dumpers, tailgate dumpers and the like


SCHEDULE 2—continued

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Item No.

Heading or subheading

Goods to which restriction does not apply

40

8706

Goods, other than chassis fitted with engines for motor vehicles having a gross vehicle weight of not more than 2.72 tonnes and classified under heading 8702, 8703 or 8704

41

8707

Goods, other than bodies (including cabs) for motor vehicles having a gross vehicle weight of not more than 2.72 tonnes and classified under heading 8702, 8703 or 8704

42

8708

Goods, other than parts and accessories for the original equipment manufacture of motor vehicles having a gross vehicle weight of not more than 2.72 tonnes

43

9113.10.00

 

44

9113.90.00

Goods, other than:

 

 

(a) goods consisting of, or incorporating, natural or cultured pearls, precious or semi-precious stones (whether natural, synthetic or reconstituted)

 

 

(b) goods of leather or of composition leather

45

9401.30.00 to 9401.79.00 (inclusive)

 

46

9401.80.00

Seats of stone, slate, cement, concrete, artificial stone, or of asbestos-cement, cellulose fibre-cement or the like

47

9401.90.90

Parts for seats of stone, slate, cement, concrete, artificial stone, or of asbestos-cement, cellulose fibre-cement or the like

48

9403

Furniture and parts thereof, of stone, slate, cement, concrete, artificial stone, or of asbestos-cement, cellulose fibre-cement or the like

49

9405.10.00

Goods, other than of ceramic

50

9405.20.00

Goods, other than of ceramic

51

9405.40.00

Goods, other than of ceramic

52

9405.50

Goods, other than of ceramic

53

9405.99.00

Parts, other than of ceramic

54

9616.20.00

Goods, other than goods of precious metal or metal clad with precious metal

55

9701.90.00

Goods, other than:

 

 

(a) collages and similar decorative plaques made from goods classified under headings 0603 or 0604

 

 

(b) statuettes and other ornaments

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 December 1987.

2. Statutory Rules 1926 No. 203 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1987 No. 72 and see also Statutory Rules 1987 Nos. 72, 102, 103, 124, 140, 162, 244 and 297.

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