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Customs Ordinance - Customs Proclamation 1996

REPUBLIC OF NAURU

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

Published by Authority

EXTRAORDINARY

No. 33

10th June, 1996

G.N. No. 223/1996

CUSTOMS PROCLAMATION NO. 1

PROCLAMATION
CUSTOMS ORDINANCE 1922-1967

WHEREAS Australian currency is legal tender and is nominated currency under Currency Act 1976 in Nauru;

WHEREAS the government intends to prohibit the export of Australian currency;

AND WHEREAS by section 101 of Customs Ordinance 1921 for the Territory of New Guinea as adopted by Customs Ordinance 1922-1967, it is, amongst other things, provided that the President may by proclamation prohibit the exportation of any goods, the exportation of which would in his opinion be harmful to Nauru, and that the power to prohibit the exportation of any such goods generally or to any specified place, and either absolutely or so as to allow of the exportation of goods subject to any condition or restriction.

NOW THEREFORE, I, L. G. N. Harris, the President, do hereby prohibit the export of Australian Dollars of the sum exceeding. One Thousand (A$1,000), unless the written permission of the Bank of Nauru has first been obtained, and a declaration to that effect along with such authorisation in original submitted at the time of its export.

Penalty for infringement of the Proclamation:

(a) under section 204 Criminal Code of Queensland 1989 (Adopted): Imprisonment for one year;

(b) under sections 100 and 189 of Customs Ordinance 1922-1967: Two Hundred Australian Dollars; and

(c) forfeiture of currency.

This proclamation may be cited as Customs Proclamation No. 1

Given under my Hand and Seal of the Republic of Nauru this 29th day of May, 1996.

L. G. N. HARRIS
THE PRESIDENT
REPUBLIC OF NAURU

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