Customs Amendment Act (No. 2) 1976 (Cth)

CUSTOMS AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1976

No. 174 of 1976

An Act to amend the Customs Act 1901.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Customs Amendment Act (No. 2) 1976.

(2) The Customs Act 1901 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement.

2. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Section 4 shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.

Interpretation.

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the definition of “Cannabis plant” in sub-section (1) the word “sativa”.

When goods deemed to be the produce or manufacture of a country.

4. Section 151 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) the word “or” (last occurring); and

(b) by adding at the end of paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) the following word and sub-paragraph:—

“or (iii) in the case where the country is Papua New Guinea—not less than one-half, or, in the case of goods included in a class of goods in respect of which the Minister has determined, by notice published in the Gazette, that a lesser portion is appropriate, that portion, of the factory or works cost of the goods is represented by the value of labour or materials, or of labour and materials, of Papua New Guinea or Papua New Guinea and Australia.”.

Direct shipment to Australia for certain preferences.

5. Section 151a of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1) the words “, the Territory of Papua or the Territory of New Guinea” and substituting the words “or Papua New Guinea”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) the words “the Territory of Papua or the Territory of New Guinea” (wherever occurring) and substituting the words “Papua New Guinea”; and

(c) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-section (4).