Customs Amendment (Expedited Seizure and Disposal of Engineered Stone) Act 2025 (Cth)

Customs Amendment (Expedited Seizure and Disposal of Engineered Stone) Act 2025

No. 11, 2025

An Act to amend the Customs Act 1901, and for related purposes

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Customs Amendment (Expedited Seizure and Disposal of Engineered Stone) Act 2025

No. 11, 2025

An Act to amend the Customs Act 1901, and for related purposes

[Assented to 20 February 2025]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act is the Customs Amendment (Expedited Seizure and Disposal of Engineered Stone) Act 2025.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this Act	The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.	21 February 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Customs Act 1901

1Subsection 183UA(1)

Insert:

engineered stone has the same meaning as in regulation 5M of theCustoms (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956.

2After subsection 206(2B)

Insert:

Engineered stone

1. (2C)

   If:

   1. (a)

      goods are seized under a seizure warrant or under subsection 203B(2) or (2A), 203CA(3) or 203CB(2); and

   2. (b)

      the Comptroller‑General of Customs is satisfied that the goods are engineered stone that is a prohibited import;

the Comptroller‑General of Customs may cause the goods to be dealt with in such manner as the Comptroller‑General considers appropriate (including the destruction of the goods).

3Subsection 206(3)

Omit “(2A) or (2B)”, substitute “(2A), (2B) or (2C)”.

4Paragraph 206(5)(c)

Omit “(2A) or (2B)”, substitute “(2A), (2B) or (2C)”.

5Subsections 206(6) and (7)

Omit “(2A) or (2B)”, substitute “(2A), (2B) or (2C)”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 28 November 2024

Senate on 13 February 2025]

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