Customs (Prohibited Imports) Amendment (Tablet Press and Encapsulator Administration) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated   19 June 2023

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Clare O’Neil

Minister for Home Affairs

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Main amendments

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956

Part 2—Application and transitional provisions

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956

1  Name

  This instrument is the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Amendment (Tablet Press and Encapsulator Administration) Regulations 2023.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 the Customs Act 1901.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Main amendments

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956

1  Paragraph 4G(2)(a)

Repeal the paragraph.

2  Paragraph 4G(2)(b)

Omit “the application”, substitute “a written application”.

3  Subregulation 4G(7) (definition of authorised person)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

authorised person means a person who is authorised by the Minister under subregulation (8) to be an authorised person.

4  At the end of regulation 4G

Add:

 (8) For the purposes of the definition of authorised person in subregulation (7), the Minister may, in writing, authorise the following to be an authorised person for the purposes of this regulation:

 (a) an SES employee, or an acting SES employee, in the Department;

 (b) an APS employee in the Department.

Part 2—Application and transitional provisions

Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956

5  After regulation 14

Insert:

15  Transitional matters—amendments made by the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Amendment (Tablet Press and Encapsulator Administration) Regulations 2023

  The repeal and substitution of the definition of authorised person in subregulation 4G(7) made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Amendment (Tablet Press and Encapsulator Administration) Regulations 2023 does not affect an authorisation in force immediately before the commencement of that Part.