Customs (Prohibited Imports) (Importation of Tobacco Products) Approval 2019

I, Peter Dutton, Minister for Home Affairs, make the following approval.

Dated    2 April 2019

Peter Dutton

Minister for Home Affairs

Contents

1 Name..............................................1

2 Commencement........................................1

3 Authority............................................1

4 Definitions...........................................1

5 Approval of importation of tobacco products........................2

1  Name

  This instrument is the Customs (Prohibited Imports) (Importation of Tobacco Products) Approval 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under subregulation 4DA(9) of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

cargo report has the same meaning as in subsection 4(1) of the Act.

5  Approval of importation of tobacco products

  For the purposes of subregulation 4DA(9) of the Regulations, the importation into Australia of the following tobacco products is approved:

(a)                tobacco products:

 (i) on which duty is payable; and

 (ii) that are imported by a passenger on, or a member of the crew of, a ship or aircraft arriving in Australia, if the passenger or member is at least 18 years of age;

(b)          tobacco products:

 (i) on which duty is payable; and

 (ii) that are imported as part of the unaccompanied personal or household effects of a passenger on, or a member of the crew of, a ship or aircraft arriving in Australia, if the passenger or member is at least 18 years of age;

(c)                tobacco products imported into Australia where the cargo report in relation to the tobacco products states that the destination of the tobacco products is a place outside Australia;.

(d)                tobacco products imported for sale by military commissaries to persons the subject of a Status of Forces Agreement between the Government of Australia and the government of another country or other countries.