Customs Act 1872 (SA)

ANNO TRICESIMO QUINTO ET TRICESIMO SEXTO

No. 12.

An Act to amend The Customs Act, 1864."

assented to, 26th June, 1872.1

HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Customs Act, 1864, by

W making provision for allowing drawback on broken packages

of goods exported to the neighboring Australian Colonies and to

sea ports in the Northern Territory of South Australia-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South ,&us- tralia, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present Parlia- ment assembled, as follows:

1. Act No. 10 of 1866-7, intituled '' An Act to amend the ~E;;J,AC~ No. l0

Customs Act, 1864," shall be and the same is hereby repealed; but this repeal shall not affect the valiclity of anything heretofore law- fully donc thereunder.

2. The Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive : ; b k : ; ; & ? $ ;

Council, may make, and from time to time alter and vary, regulations packages cxportcd for the purposc of providing for the exportation of goods, for draw- to the neighboring

S Colonies.

back to declared and legal ports in the neighboring Colonies of Victoria, New South MTales, Queexlsland, Tasmania, Kew Zealand, and Western Australia, all or any of them, and also to declared and legal landing-places on the River Murray and its tributaries in the said Colonies of New South Walcs and Victoria, although

the package or packages in which such goods were originally

imported into the Province of S o ~ t h Australia shall have been opened, or any of the contents taken therefrom, or although

N such

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The Customs Act Amendment Act.-1872.

such goods shall not be in the packages in which they were so imported into the said Province, anything in the said Customs Act, 1864, contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

made of articles pro- 3. The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, may	Drawback on goods
duced in the Colony. make and, from time to time, vary and alter regulations for the

purpose of providing for the allowance of drawbacks on the expor- tation of goods made of articles the growth and produce of the said Province, in the manufacture of which sugar is required to be used, on the quantity of sugar so used: Provided that no drawback shall be allowed or recoverable by virtue of this Act on any goods for a less amount than Forty Shillings.

Goods may be ex-

ported for drawback 4. Notwithstanding anything in " The Customs Act, 1864" con-

t ~ t h e ~ o r t h e r n ~ e ~ i -

tained, it shall be lawful, sub,ject to the provisions of this Act, and

tory.

to the regulations to be made hereunder, to export goods for draw-

back by any sea-going vessel from Port Adelaide, or other ports on

the southern coast of the said Province, to declared ports and legal

landing places in the Northern Territory of South Australia.

Regulationato be laid

5. A copy of all regulations made under the authority of this Act shall be laid before the Parliament within fourteen days from the publication thereof, if the Farliarneat be then sitting; and if the Parliament shall not be then sitting, thcn within twenty-one days from its next sitting for the dispatch of business.

boforo Parliament.

~noorporation.

6. The Customs Act, 1864, shall ( S ~ W C SO far .as the same is amended hereby) be deemed to be incorporated with this Act, and shall be construcd herewith as forming one Act; and the production of a copy of the South Australian Government Gaxtte, purporting to contain a copy of any regulations made under this Act and " The Customs Act, 1864," shall be sufficient evidence that such regulations werc duly made, and primd Sack evidence of their lawful existence.

h the name and on behalf of the Queen, I hereby

assent to this Eill.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

Adelaide : By authority, W. C. COX, Government Printer, North-torrace.