EXPORT CONTROL (HARDWOOD WOOD CHIPS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1996 NO. 22 EXPORT CONTROL (HARDWOOD WOOD CHIPS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1996 NO. 22 - TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Amendment 2. Regulation 21 (Surrender and exchange of licences) 3. New regulation 21A 4. Schedule (Regions) 1996 No. 22 EXPORT CONTROL (HARDWOOD WOOD CHIPS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 1 1. Amendment 1.1 The Export Control (Hardwood Wood Chips) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations. (NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.) 1996 No. 22 EXPORT CONTROL (HARDWOOD WOOD CHIPS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 2 2. Regulation 21 (Surrender and exchange of licences) 2.1 Subregulation 21 (2): Omit the subregulation, substitute: "(2) If the Minister consents to the surrender and exchange, the Minister must grant the new licence in exchange for the old licence. "(2A) The Minister may specify in the new licence any condition or restriction that the Minister could have specified if he or she were granting the new licence under Part 2 or 3, and, in particular, may specify that the wood chips to which the new licence relates are to be derived from a region different from that to which the old licence related.". 2.2 Insert after subregulation 21 (3): "(3A) Subregulation (3) does not prevent the Minister from specifying, in the new licence, as the region from which controlled wood chips to which the new licence relates may be derived, a region that the Minister could not have specified for that purpose in the old licence.". 1996 No. 22 EXPORT CONTROL (HARDWOOD WOOD CHIPS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 3 3. New regulation 21A 3.1 Insert after regulation 21: Surrender of licence in exchange for more than 1 licence "21A. (1) The holder of a number of licences may, with the consent in writing of the Minister, surrender it or them in exchange for a larger number of licences of the same type. "(2) If the Minister consents to the surrender and exchange, the Minister must grant 1 or more new licences in exchange for each of the old licences. "(3) Subject to subregulation (4), regulation 21 (except subregulations 21 (1) and (2)) applies in relation to the grant of the new licences as if references in that regulation to the new licence were references to each of the new licences to be granted by the Minister under subregulation (2). "(4) If new licences of a particular type are granted to a licence holder under subregulation (2), the mass of controlled hardwood wood chips authorised to be exported by the licence holder under those new licences must be equal to the remaining unexported mass (that is, the mass of controlled hardwood wood chips authorised to be exported by the licence holder under the old licence or licences of that type that were surrendered, less the mass of controlled hardwood wood chips already exported by the licence holder under the authority of those licences). "(5) Nothing in this regulation or in regulation 21 requires the Minister to impose the same restrictions or conditions on all of the new licences.". 1996 No. 22 EXPORT CONTROL (HARDWOOD WOOD CHIPS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 4 4. Schedule (Regions) 4.1 Item 3: Add at the end: "; and (c) Tumut Region, being the area of forest consisting of: (i) the area identified by State Forests of New South Wales, at the commencement of this paragraph, as the Bago-Maragle Management Area; and (ii) part of the area identified by State Forests of New South Wales, at the commencement of this paragraph, as the Tumut Management Area, being the part of that area known as the Native Forests Working Circle". - NOTES 1996 No. 22*1* EXPORT CONTROL (HARDWOOD WOOD CHIPS) REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT) - Dated 29 January 1996 *1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 January 1996. *2* Statutory Rules 1995 No. 386 as amended by 1995 No. 388.