Commonwealth legislation

Customs (Export of Money Prohibition) Regulations

RepealedCTH

This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

92 of 1939

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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This regulation does exactly one thing: it scrubs a previous ban on taking money out of Australia.

The action: It repeals (cancels) the Customs (Export of Money Prohibition) Regulations made just weeks earlier in 1939 (Statutory Rules No. 78).
The impact: Anyone looking to export currency—banks, travellers, or traders—is no longer bound by those earlier restrictions.
The context: Made on 13 September 1939, ten days after Australia entered World War II, this likely represents a rapid about-face on wartime currency controls. The government either decided the ban wasn't needed, or more likely, was replacing it with a different system of exchange control. Either way, the old rules are gone.

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STATUTORY RULES.

No. 92

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1936.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Customs Act 1901-1936.

Dated this thirteenth day of September, 1939.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command.

John Lawson signatureMinister of State for Trade and Customs.

REPEAL OF CUSTOMS (EXPORT OF MONEY PROHIBITION) REGULATIONS.

The Customs (Export of Money Prohibition) Regulation (being Statutory Rules 1939. No. 78) are repealed.

Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1939.

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Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.