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Commerce (Imports) 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 Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905.
Dated 11 August 1981.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
JOHN MOORE
Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs
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Parts
1. Regulation 4 of the Commerce (Imports) Regulations is repealed.
Interpretation
2. Regulation 5 of the Commerce (Imports) Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting before the definition of “approved brand” in sub-regulation (1) the following definition:
“ ‘analyst’ means a person appointed under sub-regulation 24 (1) or a person who, under sub-regulation 24 (2), has the powers of a person so appointed;”;
(b) by inserting after the definition of “poultry” in sub-regulation (1) the following definition:
“ ‘prescribed goods’ means goods referred to in regulation 23;”; and
(c) by omitting “-1933” from the definition of “the Act” in sub‑regulation (1).
Inspection of prescribed goods
3. Regulation 23 of the Commerce (Imports) Regulations is amended by omitting “the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-1966” and substituting “the Act”.
Analysts
4. Regulation 24 of the Commerce (Imports) Regulations is amended by omitting sub‑regulations (2), (3) and (4) and substituting the following sub‑regulations:
“(2) A person for the time being occupying, or performing the duties of—
(a) the office of Assistant Secretary in the Analytical Services Branch in the Department of Science and Technology that is known as Australian Government Analyst; or
(b) an office in the Analytical Services Branch in the Department of Science and Technology designated Science 1, Science 2, Science 3, Science 4 or Science 5,
has, for the purposes of these Regulations, the powers of a person appointed under sub‑regulation (1).
“(3) An analyst may analyse or examine samples of prescribed goods that are taken by an officer under the Act.”.
Certificates of analysts
5. Regulation 25 of the Commerce (Imports) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) “the Customs Act 1901-1971, the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905-66” and substituting “the Customs Act 1901, the Act”; and
(b) by omitting sub-regulation (3).
NOTES
1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 August 1981.
2. Statutory Rules 1940 No. 280 as amended by 1949 No. 46; 1951 No. 154; 1952 No. 48; 1953 No. 54; 1954 Nos. 73 and 104; 1955 Nos. 33 and 68; 1959 No. 74; 1963 No. 21; 1969 No. 200; 1973 Nos. 41 and 82; 1974 No. 136; 1976 No. 232.