Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1987 No. 97 CUSTOMS (PROHIBITED EXPORTS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 4

4. After regulation 13C of the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations the
following regulation is inserted: Export of goods containing certain chemical
compounds

"13D. (1) In this regulation:
'authorised person' means a person authorised in writing by the Minister of
State for Foreign Affairs to grant, for the purposes of this regulation,
permission to export prescribed goods from Australia;
'Chemical Abstracts Service number', in relation to a chemical compound, means
the registry number:

   (a)  assigned to that compound by the Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus,
        Ohio, United States of America; and

   (b)  published by that Service in the journal 'Chemical Abstracts';
'prescribed goods' means goods containing 10% or more, by weight, of a
chemical compound, specified in column 2 in an item in Schedule 15, whose
Chemical Abstracts Service number is specified in column 3 of that Schedule in
that item.

"(2) The exportation from Australia of prescribed goods is prohibited unless:

   (a)  the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs or an authorised person
        grants permission in writing to export the goods; and

   (b)  that permission is produced to the Collector.

"(3) A permission granted under subregulation (2) may specify conditions, or
requirements, to be complied with by the holder of the permission and may, in
respect of any such condition or requirement, specify a time (being a time
before or after the exportation of the goods to which the permission relates)
at or before which the condition or requirement shall be complied with by the
holder.

"(4) Where:

   (a)  a permission granted under subregulation (2) is subject to a
        condition, or requirement, to be complied with by a person; and

   (b)  the person fails to comply with the condition or requirement; the
        Minister or an authorised person may revoke the permission whether or
        not the person is charged with an offence against subsection 112 (2B)
        of the Act in respect of the failure to comply with the condition or
        requirement.".