{"id":"C1953L00085","name":"Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations","slug":"c1953l00085","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"85 of 1953","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":320627,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1953L00085-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations","content":"![](image.001.png)Statutory Rules 1953, No. 85.(e)\n\nCitation.\n\n1. These Regulations may be cited as the Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations.\n\nInterpretation.\n\n2. In these Regulations, a reference to a Schedule by number shall be read as a reference to the Schedule so numbered to these Regulations.\n\nAbsolute prohibition against export.\n\n3. The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the First Schedule is prohibited absolutely.\n\nProhibition against export unless consent of Minister obtained.\n\n4. The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Second Schedule is prohibited unless the consent in writing of the Minister to the exportation of the goods is first obtained.\n\nProhibition against export except with approval of Department of Commerce and Agriculture.\n\n5. The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Third Schedule is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued by the Department of Commerce and Agriculture is produced to the Collector.\n\nProhibition against export except with approval of Department of interior.\n\n6. The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Fourth Schedule is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued by the Department of the Interior is produced to the Collector.\n\nProhibition against export except with approval of Department of Shipping and Transport.\n\n7. The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Fifth Schedule is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued by the Department of Shipping and Transport is produced to the Collector.\n\n![](image.002.png)(e) Made under the Customs Act 1901–1952 on 25th September, 1953; notified in the Gazette on 1st October, 1953.\n\n \nProhibition against export except with approval of Department of Civil Aviation.\n\n8. The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Sixth Schedule is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued by the Department of Civil Aviation is produced to the Collector.\n\nProhibition against export except with approval of Department of Health.\n\n9. The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Seventh Schedule is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued by the Department of Health is produced to the Collector.\n\nProhibition against export except with approval of Department of Supply\n\n10. The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Eighth Schedule is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued by the Department of Supply is produced to the Collector.\n\nProhibition against export except with approval of Department of National Development.\n\n11. The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Ninth Schedule is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued by the Department of National Development is produced to the Collector.\n\nProhibition against export except with approval of Department of Defence Production.\n\n12. The exportation from Australia of the goods specified in the Tenth Schedule is prohibited unless an approval in writing to the exportation of the goods issued by the Department of Defence Production is produced to the Collector.\n\nProhibition against export to certain placed except on compliance with conditions.\n\n13. The exportation from Australia of any goods specified in the Eleventh Schedule to a place specified in that Schedule opposite to the description of the goods is prohibited unless the conditions and restrictions also specified in that Schedule opposite to the description of the goods are complied with.\n\nRegulations do not derogate from any other law.\n\n14\\. The provisions of these Regulations are in addition to, and do not derogate from the operation of, any other law of the Commonwealth relating to the exportation of goods.\n\nRepeal.\n\n![](image.003.png)![](image.003.png)15\\. The Customs (Prohibited Exports) Regulations (comprising the Statutory Rules specified in the Twelfth Schedule) are repealed.\n\n![](image.004.png)THE SCHEDULES.\n\nFIRST SCHEDULE.\n\n![](image.004.png)Reg. 3.\n\nGOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED ABSOLUTELY.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Diacetylmorphine (heroin), its salts and preparations containing diacetylmorphine or its salts |\n| 2 | Goods and materials (other than flour) intended for human consumption and declared in writing by an officer to be unfit for export by reason of being contained in containers which are soiled, disfigured or damaged |\n| 3 | Goods (including industrial and other capital equipment) received as reparations |\n| 4 | Goods packed in a bag or sack, being goods the weight of which, together with the weight of the bag or sack, exceeds two hundred pounds |\n| 5 | Haematite (other than micaceous haematite), magnetite and ores containing either or both of those minerals |\n| 6 | Opium prepared for smoking, including dross and any other form of charred opium |\n| 7 | Seeds and maize contained in second-hand bags |\n| 8 | Wines (fortified and unfortified) and potable spirits (including liqueurs) declared in writing by the Minister to be of such a quality that their exportation would be harmful to the reputation of Australian wine and potable spirits in a country to which they were exported |\n\nSECOND SCHEDULE.\n\n![](image.005.png)Reg. 4.\n\nGOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE CONSENT OF THE MINISTER IS FIRST OBTAINED.\n\nPart I.—General.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Animals and birds native to Australia, skins of animals native to Australia and plumage, skins, eggs and eggshells of birds native to Australia |\n| 2 | Archaelogical and anthropological objects and specimens (including articles of ethnological interest) derived from or relating to the aborigines of Australia or of a Territory of the Commonwealth, including Nauru |\n| 3 | Birds of Paradise and their plumage |\n| 4 | Cinematograph films produced in Australia |\n| 5 | Coal and coke |\n| 6 | Fortified wine which is less than six months old |\n| 7 | Fossil material and other geological specimens |\n| 8 | Goods shipped as ships’ stores |\n| 9 | Hops |\n| 10 | Iron-bearing ores and minerals, other than those the exportation of which is prohibited absolutely under Item 5 of the First Schedule |\n| 11 | Live pearl shell oysters |\n| 12 | Mineral lubricating oil |\n| 13 | Molasses |\n| 14 | Newsprint |\n| 15 | Preventives of conception, whether chemical or otherwise, and any literature or advertising matter relating to preventives of conception |\n| 16 | Ships |\n| 17 | Skeletons, and parts of skeletons, of Australian or Tasmanian aborigines |\n| 18 | Sugar, including plain, coloured and flavoured sugar, and sugar syrups |\n| 19 | Tea |\n\nPart II.—Drugs.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Raw opium, whether powdered or granulated |\n| 2 | Medicinal opium, that is to say, opium in any form, whether mixed with a neutral substance or not, which has undergone the processes necessary to adapt it for medicinal use |\n| 3 | Morphine, its salts and— |\n| | (a) any solution or dilution of morphine or its salts in an inert substance, whether liquid or solid, containing any proportion of morphine; |\n| | (b) any preparation containing more than one-fifth per centum of morphine; |\n| | (c) esters of morphine and their salts (other than diacetylmorphine and its salts) and any preparation containing any of those esters or salts; |\n| | (d) ethers of morphine and their salts (including methylmorphine, ethylmorphine, benzylmorphine and β-4-morpholinylethylmorphine and their salts) and any preparation containing any of those ethers or salts; |\n| | (e) dihydrohydroxycodeinone (oxycodone), dihydrocodeinone (hydrocodone), dihydromorphinone (hydromorphone), acetyldihydrocodeinone, dihydromorphine, dihydrodesoxymorphine (desomorphine), methyldihydromorphinone (metopon), dihydrocodeine (hydrocodin, paracodine) and acetyldihydrocodeine (acetylcodone), the salts and esters, and the salts of the esters, of any of those substances, and any preparation containing any of those substances, salts or esters; |\n| | (f) morphine-N-oxide (genomorphine), the derivatives of morphine-N-oxide, any other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives and any preparation containing any of those substances; and |\n| | (g) thebaine and its salts, and any preparation containing thebaine or its salts |\n\nSecond Schedule—continued.\n\nPart II.—Drugs—continued.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 4 | Coca leaves, that is to say, the leaves of any plant of the genus of the erythroxylaceae from which cocaine can be extracted either directly or by chemical transformation |\n| 5 | Cocaine (including crude cocaine, that is to say, any crude extract of the coca leaf that contains cocaine), its salts and— |\n| | (a) ecgonine (that is to say, laevo-ecgonine and derivatives of laevo-ecgonine capable of being used for the recovery of ecgonine), its salts, its esters, the salts of its esters and any preparation containing ecgonine or any of those salts or esters; |\n| | (b) any solution or dilution of cocaine or its salts in an inert substance, whether liquid or solid, containing any proportion of cocaine; and |\n| | (c) any preparation containing more than one-tenth per centum of cocaine |\n| 6 | Indian hemp (that is to say, the dried flowering or fruiting tops, by whatever name those tops are called, of the pistillate plant known as Cannabis Sativa, being tops from which the resin has not been extracted) and— |\n| | (a) resin obtained from Indian hemp; |\n| | (b) preparations, such as hashish, esrar, chiras and djamba, of which that resin forms the base; and |\n| | (c) galenical preparations (extract and tincture) of Indian hemp |\n| 7 | Synthetic narcotic drugs of the following kinds:— |\n| | (a) Pethidine (l-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester) (also known as Antiduol, Centralgin, D-140, Demerol, Dispadol, Dodonal, Dolantal, Dolantin, Dolantol, Dolaren, Dolarin, Dolatol, Dolental, Dolinal, Dolopethin, Dolosal, Dolvanol, Eudolat, Felidin, Gratidina, Isonipecaine, Meperidin, Mephedine, Pantalgine, Piridosal, Precedyl, Sauteralgyl) and its salts; |\n| | (b) Keto-Bemidone (4-(3-hydroxyphenil)-1-methyl-4-piperidyl ethyl ketone or 1-methyl-4-metahydroxyphenyl-4-metahydroxyphenil-piperidine) (also known as Cliradon, Ketogan) and its salts; |\n| | (c) Bemidone (1-methyl-4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-piperidine-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester or 1-methyl-4-metahydroxyphenil-piperidine-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester) and its salts; |\n| | (d) Alphaprodine (α-1, 3-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4-propionoxy-piperidine) (also known as NU-1196, Nisentil, Nisintil) and its salts; |\n| | (e) Betaprodine (β-1, 3-dimothyl-4-phenyl-4-propionoxypiporidine) (also known as NU-1779) and its salts; |\n| | (f) Methadone (4, 4-diphenyl-6-dimethylaminoheptanone-3 or 6-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenyl-3-heptanone) (also known as Adanon, Amidone, Amidosan, Butalgin, Depridol, Diaminon, Dianone, Dolafin, Dolamid, Dolophine, Dorexol, Heptadon, Heptanal, Hoechst 10820, Ketalgin, Mecodin, Mephenon, Miadone, Moheptan, Physeptone, Physopeptone, Polamidon, Symoron, Turanone) and its salts; |\n| | (g) Iso-methadone (4, 4-diphenyl-5-methyl-6-dimethylamino-hexanone-3 or 6-dimethylamino-5-methyl-4, 4-diphenyl-3-hexanone) and its salts; |\n| | (h) Methadol (4, 4-diphenyl-6-dimethylaminoheptanol-3 or 6-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenyl-3-heptanol) (also known as N.I.H.-2933) and its salts; |\n| | (i) Methadylacetate (4, 4-diphenyl-6-dimethylamino-3-acetoxyheptane or 6-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenyl-3-acetoxyheptane) (also known as N.I.H.-2953) and its salts; |\n| | (j) Phenadoxone (4, 4-diphenyl-6-morpholinoheptanone-3 or 6-morpholino-4, 4-diphenyl-3-heptanone) (also known as CB-11, Hepagin, Heptalgin, Heptalin, Heptazone) and its salts; |\n| | (k) β-1-methyl-3-ethyl-4-phenyl-4-propionoxypiperidine (also known as NU-1932) and its salts; |\n| | (l) Methorphinan (3-hydroxy-X-methylmorphinan) (also known as Dromoran, Racemorphan, Levorphan, Dextrorphan) and its salts; |\n| | (m) Racemethorphan (3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan) (also known as Levomethorphan, Dextromethorphan) and its salts |\n\n \nSecond Schedule—continued.\n\nPart III.—Arms, Explosives, Military Stores and Naval Stores.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Ammunition and cartridges |\n| 2 | Appliances and equipment designed or adapted for use with the goods specified in this Part |\n| 3 | Armour plate designed for warlike purposes |\n| 4 | Assault bridges |\n| 5 | Barrage balloons |\n| 6 | Bayonets |\n| 7 | Boats designed or adapted for any purpose of war, including assault, landing and storm boats |\n| 8 | Cannon, guns, howitzers, mortars and other ordnance |\n| 9 | Catapults and other equipment for launching aircraft from warships |\n| 10 | Deceptive warfare appliances and equipment (including dazzle and decoy devices) and equipment designed or adapted for the making of smoke screens |\n| 11 | Explosives and incendiary materials |\n| 12 | Factory and tool equipment designed or adapted for the production and maintenance of the goods specified in this Part |\n| 13 | Firearms |\n| 14 | Fire control, sighting and aiming appliances and equipment, including predictors, plotting apparatus, gun sights, bomb sights, fuse setters and equipment for the calibration of guns |\n| 15 | Flame throwers |\n| 16 | Fuses, detonators and other appliances designed or adapted for operating or exploding any arms or explosives specified in this Part |\n| 17 | Gases or liquids designed for the purpose of killing or incapacitating persons, and decontamination appliances and equipment |\n| 18 | Grenades, bombs, torpedoes, mines and depth charges, whether charged or not, and appliances and equipment designed or adapted for detecting, removing or destroying those arms and explosives |\n| 19 | Gun mountings and gun frames, gun turrets, “blisters”, bomb racks, torpedo carriers, torpedo tubes and bomb and torpedo release appliances and equipment |\n| 20 | Personal appliances and equipment designed or adapted for the use of members of a military or naval force |\n| 21 | Projectiles and missiles designed for any purpose of war |\n| 22 | Radar equipment designed or adapted for any purpose of war |\n| 23 | Rocket projectors, and appliances and equipment designed or adapted for launching or controlling rockets or self-propelling or guided missiles |\n| 24 | Spare and component parts of or for any of the goods specified in this Part |\n| 25 | Telecommunication and cypher appliances and equipment designed or adapted for any purpose of war |\n| 26 | Towed target equipment and camera guns |\n| 27 | Vehicles designed or adapted for any purpose of war, including amphibious vehicles, tanks and armoured cars |\n\nPart IV.—Goods Capable of being used for Purposes of War.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Aircraft, whether assembled or dismantled, aircraft engines and spare and component parts of aircraft and aircraft engines |\n| 2 | Animal and vegetable oils; fats and waxes |\n| 3 | Bitumen and bituminous products |\n| 4 | Chemicals |\n| 5 | Clothing and blankets, and materials from which those goods are manufactured |\n| 6 | Drugs, and medicinal and pharmaceutical goods |\n\n \nSecond Schedule—continued.\n\nPart IV.—Goods Capable of being used for Purposes or War—continued.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 7 | Electrical and wireless telegraphic appliances and equipment, and spare and component parts of those goods |\n| 8 | Foodstuffs |\n| 9 | Glass and glassware other than glassware for domestic use |\n| 10 | Industrial paints and varnishes, and materials from which those goods are manufactured |\n| 11 | Machinery and tools (including electrical machinery and tools), and spare and component parts for those goods |\n| 12 | Minerals, ores and mineral concentrates, and bars, blocks and ingots of metal |\n| 13 | Motor vehicles, spare and component parts and accessories for motor vehicles and substances used for or in connexion with the propulsion and operation of motor vehicles |\n| 14 | Optical, surgical, medical and scientific instruments, and appliances and photographic goods and equipment of all kinds |\n| 15 | Petroleum, and petroleum and shale products |\n| 16 | Rubber and synthetic rubber, materials used for the processing of rubber or synthetic rubber, and goods manufactured from rubber or synthetic rubber |\n| 17 | Welding electrodes and welding rods |\n\nTHIRD SCHEDULE.\n\n![](image.006.png)Reg. 5.\n\nGOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE APPROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE IS PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Agricultural machinery of the following kinds (and spare parts for machinery of those kinds), namely, tractors, grain and fertilizer cultivator drills, seed drills for cereal crops, header harvesters, reaper threshers, reapers and binders, pick-up hay balers and tractor mowers |\n| 2 | Barley grain |\n| 3 | Bone dust |\n| 4 | Bran |\n| 5 | Breakfast foods made from or containing wheat |\n| 6 | Butter |\n| 7 | Casein |\n| 8 | Cattle |\n| 9 | Cattle hides, including skins of calves and yearlings |\n| 10 | Cheese |\n| 11 | Coconut oil |\n| 12 | Copra |\n| 13 | Fertilizers of the following kinds, namely, blood and bone fertilizer and dried blood fertilizer |\n| 14 | Flax meal and flax chaff |\n| 15 | Flour |\n| 16 | Iron pyrites ore and concentrates and pyrrhotite ore and concentrates |\n| 17 | Leather, and goods of the following kinds consisting of or containing, or substantially consisting of or containing, leather, namely, bags, baskets, bands (including picking bands), belts and belting, boxes, cases, footwear, harness, roller skins, saddlery, straps (including picking straps), trunks and washers |\n| 18 | Linseed |\n| 19 | Margarine, other than margarine produced from animal fat |\n\n \nThird Schedule—continued.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 20 | Meal of the following kinds, namely, blood meal, fish meal, liver meal, moat meal, meat and bone meal, and oilseed meal in cake, nut or any other form |\n| 21 | Meat, meat products and edible offal |\n| 22 | Phosphate rock, phosphate and superphosphate, and fertilizers containing phosphate or superphosphate |\n| 23 | Pollard |\n| 24 | Potatoes |\n| 25 | Raw jute, and goods manufactured wholly or partly from jute |\n| 26 | Rice, rice meal and rice substitutes made from wheat |\n| 27 | Semen |\n| 28 | Semolina |\n| 29 | Sharps |\n| 30 | Sheep |\n| 31 | Sulphate of ammonia and compounded fertilizers containing sulphate of ammonia |\n| 32 | Sulphuric acid |\n| 33 | Wheat |\n| 34 | Wheat meal |\n\nFOURTH SCHEDULE.\n\n![](image.007.png)Reg. 6.\n\nGOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE APPROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR IS PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR.\n\n| Item No | Description of Goods. |\n| ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Hard fibreboard, other than fibrous plaster |\n| 2 | Joinery, including mouldings, made-up doors and windows, door frames, door jambs, box frames and sashes |\n| 3 | Timber, dressed or undressed, including logs, poles, piles and railway sleepers |\n| 4 | Wooden separators for batteries |\n\nFIFTH SCHEDULE.\n\nReg. 7.\n\n![](image.008.png)GOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE APPROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SHIPPING AND TRANSPORT IS PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Motor vehicles (including motor vehicles only partly assembled) manufactured in Canada or in the United States of America |\n\n \nSIXTH SCHEDULE.\n\nReg. 8.\n\n![](image.009.png)GOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE APPROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AVIATION IS PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | ----------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Aircraft, whether assembled or dismantled |\n\nSEVENTH SCHEDULE.\n\n![](image.010.png)Reg. 9.\n\nGOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE APPROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Aureomycin |\n| 2 | Chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin) |\n| 3 | Insulin |\n| 4 | Pancreas glands of cattle and pigs and alcoholic extracts from pancreas glands of those animals |\n| 5 | Raw and processed pituitary glands, and parts of pituitary glands, of pigs, sheep and cattle, and extracts of, and preparations containing, pituitary elands of those animals |\n| 6 | Streptomycin and dihydrostreptomycin |\n\nEIGHTH SCHEDULE.\n\n![](image.011.png)Reg. 10.\n\nGOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE APPROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SUPPLY IS PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Bristles and manufactured goods incorporating bristles |\n| 2 | Cordage, rope, twine and yarn containing Manilla hemp |\n| 3 | Engines for motor vehicles, and automotive ball and roller bearings, wherever manufactured, and other spare and component parts for motor vehicles, being parts manufactured in Canada or in the United States of America |\n| 4 | Manilla hemp fibre |\n| 5 | Rubber tyres and rubber tubes for grader and earthmoving equipment, and synthetic rubber in any form |\n| 6 | Tinplate in sheets |\n\n \nNINTH SCHEDULE.\n\n![](image.012.png)Reg. 11.\n\nGOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE APPROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| 1 | Aluminium, and alloys of aluminium, in the form of ingots, scrap or shoots |\n| 2 | Beryllium metal, ores and concentrates |\n| 3 | Copper, and alloys of copper, in the form of angles, bars, billets, cakes, castings, concentrates, hollows, ingots, matte, ore, pipes, plates, rods, scrap, sections, sheets, strips, tubes or wires |\n| 4 | Crude or partly refined mineral sand containing cassiterite, ilmenite, monazite, rutile or zircon |\n| 5 | Crude petroleum, diesel oil, fuel oil, kerosene, petrol and solar oil |\n| 6 | Iron and steel (including cast iron and malleable iron), and alloys of iron and steel in any form, whether finished or unfinished, including— |\n| | (a) angles, beams, channels, columns, girders, joists, pillars, piling, tees and other sections, bars, rods, billets, blooms, ingots and slabs; |\n| | (b) castings and forgings, including railway wheels, axles and tyres; |\n| | (c) fencing posts and droppers; |\n| | (d) hoops and strips, coated or uncoated; |\n| | (e) pig iron; |\n| | (f) pipes and tubes, coated or uncoated; |\n| | (g) plates, coated or uncoated; |\n| | (h) pressings, stampings and spinnings, other than finished articles; |\n| | (i) rails (light or heavy), and accessories for rails, including chains, crossings, dog spikes, fishplates, bolts for fishplates, points, sleepers, soleplates and switches; |\n| | (j) scrap, including alloy steel scrap; |\n| | (k) sheet bar; |\n| | (l) sheets, coated or uncoated; |\n| | (m) spring steel; |\n| | (n) wire, coated or uncoated, including barbed wire, wire fabric, fencing wire, gauze and wire netting; and |\n| | (o) wire rods |\n| 7 | Manganese ores |\n| 8 | Mica |\n| 9 | Monazite ore and concentrates |\n| 10 | Naphthalene |\n| 11 | Natural and synthetic gums and resins |\n| 12 | Portland cement |\n| 13 | Tantalite ore and concentrates |\n| 14 | Tantalum metal and tantalum alloys in the form of bars, plates, powder or strips |\n| 15 | Tantalum oxide and other tantalum salts |\n| 16 | Uranium ore, concentrates or metal and residues and by-products of uranium |\n| 17 | Wires and cables for the conduction of electricity |\n\nTENTH SCHEDULE.\n\n![](image.013.png)Reg. 12.\n\nGOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH IS PROHIBITED UNLESS THE APPROVAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE PRODUCTION IS PRODUCED TO THE COLLECTOR.\n\n| Item No. | Description of Goods. |\n| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 1 | Diamonds, including diamonds forming a part of other goods |\n| 2 | Raw piezo electric quartz crystals, crystal oscillator blanks and other articles manufactured from raw piezo electric quartz crystal |\n\n \nELEVENTH SCHEDULE.\n\nReg. 13.\n\n![](image.014.png)GOODS THE EXPORTATION OF WHICH TO CERTAIN PLACES IS PROHIBITED UNLESS CERTAIN CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS ARE COMPLIED WITH.\n\n```html\n

Item No.

Description of Goods.

Place.

Conditions and Restrictions.

1

Distilled beverages containing essential oils or chemical products recognized as injurious to health, trade spirits and beverages containing trade spirits

Africa, other than Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, Libya, Egypt and the Union of South Africa

The consent in writing of the Minister to the exportation of the goods shall be obtained

2

Liqueurs................

United Kingdom

The alcoholic strength, as determined by distillation, of a liqueur specified in the following table shall be not less than a strength equal to the percentage of proof spirit specified opposite to the liqueur in that table, or shall be within such margin of tolerance of that strength as the Minister allows:—

Advocaat...........

30 per centum

Cherry Brandy.......

43 per centum

Crême de Cacao, Crême de Café or Passion Fruit Liqueur

44 per centum

Apricot Brandy, Blackberry Brandy, Crême de Cassia, Crême de Menthe, Maraschino or Peach Brandy

50 per centum

Curaçao, White or Orange

55 per centum

Kümmel...........

60 per centum

Benedictine, Chartreuse, Cointreau, Grand Marnier or a similar type of liqueur

65 per centum

Any other liqueur

50 per centum

3

Timber of the following kinds:—

New Zealand.......

1. The timber shall be branded with a Government mark or brand indicating that the timber has been examined and, in the opinion of an officer of a Forestry Commission or other like authority of a State—

(a)timber in the round;

(b)heart in timber;

(c)sleepers, pole blocks and split fence posts;

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Item No

Description of Goods.

Place.

Conditions and Restrictions.

3

(d) any other timber free of heart with a cross sectional area of not less than sixty square inches

(a) is free from termite and other insect infestation; and

(b) conforms in all respects with the specification under which the timber was ordered

2. At the time of inspection, and pending shipment, the timber shall be stored, on skids or otherwise, so as to be kept off the ground and, where considered necessary by an officer of a Forestry Commission or other like authority of a State, termite galleries shall be treated in a manner approved by the officer to ensure the destruction of insects

3. Except in the case of Australian turpentine (Syncarpia laurifolia) intended for use as piles, round, hewn or sawn timber shall not have the bark attached

4. A certificate issued by a responsible officer of a Forestry Commission or other like authority of a State certifying that the foregoing conditions have been complied with shall be in force in respect of the timber

\n```\n\nTWELFTH SCHEDULE.\n\n![](image.015.png)Reg. 15.\n\nSTATUTORY RULES REPEALED.\n\nStatutory Rules 1935, No. 2.\n\nStatutory Rules 1935, No. 4.\n\nStatutory Rules 1935, No. 103.\n\nStatutory Rules 1935, No. 115.\n\nStatutory Rules 1936, No. 27.\n\nStatutory Rules 1936, No. 87.\n\nStatutory Rules 1936, No. 103.\n\nStatutory Rules 1936, No. 141.\n\nStatutory Rules 1937, No. 73.\n\nStatutory Rules 1938, No. 61.\n\nStatutory Rules 1938, No. 65.\n\nStatutory Rules 1938, No. 86.\n\nStatutory Rules 1939, No. 170.\n\nStatutory Rules 1940, No. 30.\n\nStatutory Rules 1941, No. 136.\n\nStatutory Rules 1942, No. 479.\n\nStatutory Rules 1945, No. 87.\n\nStatutory Rules 1945, No. 149.\n\nStatutory Rules 1946, No. 10.\n\nStatutory Rules 1946, No. 53.\n\nStatutory Rules 1946, No. 90.\n\n \nTRADE AND COMMERCE—\n\nTwelfth Schedule—continued.\n\nStatutory Rules 1946, No. 106.\n\nStatutory Rules 1946, No. 126.\n\nStatutory Rules 1946, No. 138.\n\nStatutory Rules 1946, No. 166.\n\nStatutory Rules 1946, No. 178.\n\nStatutory Rules 1946, No. 179.\n\nStatutory Rules 1947, No. 11.\n\nStatutory Rules 1947, No. 35.\n\nStatutory Rules 1947, No. 54.\n\nStatutory Rules 1947, No. 80.\n\nStatutory Rules 1947, No. 82.\n\nStatutory Rules 1947, No. 95.\n\nStatutory Rules 1947, No. 105.\n\nStatutory Rules 1947, No. 116.\n\nStatutory Rules 1947, No. 138.\n\nStatutory Rules 1947, No. 153.\n\nStatutory Rules 1948, No. 6.\n\nStatutory Rules 1948, No. 50.\n\nStatutory Rules 1948, No. 105.\n\nStatutory Rules 1948, No. 120.\n\nStatutory Rules 1949, No. 3.\n\nStatutory Rules 1949, No. 8.\n\nStatutory Rules 1949, No. 16.\n\nStatutory Rules 1949, No. 113.\n\nStatutory Rules 1950, No. 79.\n\nStatutory Rules 1951, No. 1.\n\nStatutory Rules 1951, No. 43.\n\nStatutory Rules 1951, No. 122.\n\n![](image.016.png)Statutory Rules 1953, No. 13.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":7,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"The instrument repeals a long list of earlier statutory rules (Reg 15; Twelfth Schedule) and consolidates, restates and reallocates export controls into a single set of schedules and specified departmental approval powers (Regs 3–13). That restructuring alters how and who authorises exports compared with the prior fragmented ruleset."},"complexity_factors":["Multiple distinct outcomes: absolute prohibition (Reg 3), ministerial consent (Reg 4) and various departmental approvals (Regs 5–12).","Large, granular schedules listing many technical categories (drugs, arms, minerals, foods, timber, vehicles, aircraft, etc.).","Numerous decisionmakers: Minister plus multiple departments (Commerce & Agriculture, Interior, Shipping & Transport, Civil Aviation, Health, Supply, National Development, Defence Production).","Place‑specific conditions and technical compliance requirements (Eleventh Schedule timber branding, storage and certification; liqueur proof limits).","Operational burden on Customs Collector to require and inspect written approvals and certificates at export.","Explicit non‑derogation clause (Reg 14) creating potential overlap with other Commonwealth export laws.","Repeal and consolidation of many earlier statutory rules (Reg 15 and Twelfth Schedule), implying restructuring of prior rules and administrative arrangements.","High potential for technical determinations (e.g. drug formulations, ores, machinery classification) that create administratively intensive assessments."],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations set out a detailed list of goods that either cannot be exported at all or may be exported only with written consent or a specified departmental approval. They assign decision‑making to the Minister or particular departments and impose documentary and inspection requirements at the point of export. Exporters, customs collectors and the named departments bear the compliance, approval and administrative costs created by these rules."},"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-realtime","completionTokens":2583},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":6,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This 1953 instrument consolidates approximately 40 previous statutory rules dating back to 1935 into a single comprehensive regulation. While it reorganizes and codifies existing export controls covering drugs, arms, agriculture, and strategic materials, it does not represent an expansion beyond the original purpose of regulating prohibited exports."},"complexity_factors":["12 separate schedules with distinct approval authorities and regulatory conditions","Extensive chemical nomenclature for controlled narcotics (over 30 specific compounds including molecular derivatives, salts, and esters)","Four-tier prohibition structure (absolute, ministerial consent, departmental approval, and destination-specific conditional)","Cross-referencing mechanism between regulations and schedules requiring navigation between provisions","Technical measurement requirements (alcohol percentages by volume, timber cross-sectional area specifications of 60+ square inches)"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations establish a comprehensive export-control system for Australia, categorizing goods as prohibited, ministerial-consent, or department-approved before export. They affect any exporter—especially those dealing in drugs, agricultural produce, natural resources, military/strategic items, cultural heritage and manufactured goods—and include destination-specific rules.\n\nThe regime protects public health and heritage, manages domestic supplies and strategic materials, and upholds export quality and international obligations."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/c1953l00085","history":"/api/acts/c1953l00085/history","analysis":"/api/acts/c1953l00085/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/c1953l00085/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/c1953l00085/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/c1953l00085/documents"}}