Customs Duties Amendment Act 1898 (WA)

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ANNO SEXAGESINO SECUNDO

VICTORLE REGINA,.

No. V.

AN ACT to amend the present Customs Tariff.

[Assented to, 9th September, a9g.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the present Customs Tariff :	Preamble.
Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia- ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1. THIS Act may be cited as the Customs Duties Amendment Short Title.

Act, 1898.

2. (i.) THE Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act Repeal.

are hereby repealed.

First Schedule.

(2.) Such repeal shall not affect any proclamation, appoint- ment, rule, regulation, affidavit, declaration, order, or registration made, or any permit, security, notice, or certificate given, or any surety, bail, bond, or recognisance entered into, or any information laid, or any service effected, or any license or warrant granted, or any return furnished, or any memorial presented, or any arrear of duty due, or any act validated under the said Acts, or any of them, before the commencement of this Act.

Proviso.

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Amendment of 3. NOT-WITHSTANDING anything contained in the Tariff

Customs Duties.

Act, 1893, or in any Acts amending the same, from and after the coming into operation of this Act there shall be charged, raised, collected, levied, and paid to Her Majesty upon all

Second Schedule.

goods, wares, articles, merchandise, and things enumerated or included in the Second Schedule to this Act, imported into Western Australia, whether by sea or land, such duties as are respectively specified in the said Second Schedule to this Act, at the rates and for the quantities therein mentioned, and at proportional rates for any smaller quantities, and such duties shall be payable also upon any of the said goods, wares, articles, merchandise, and things which are now in any bonded warehouse.

Mode of levying 4.

THE, said Customs duties shall be collected and levied in the manner provided by, and subject and according to the provisions of any Act or Law for the time being in force for the general regulation of the Customs of the Colony.

Customs duties.

5.     (I) ALL acts done on or after the 18th day of August, One

Confirmation o

acts. ast thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, in regard to any goods, wares, articles, merchandise and things enumerated or included in the Second Schedule to this Act shall be as valid as if this Act had been passed and had come into operation on the said date.

(2.) The Customs Duties imposed by this Act shall, on and after the said date, be paid, collected, and recovered, and payments in respect thereof may be repaid and adjusted as if this Act had been passed and had come into operation on the said date.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

GERARD SMITH, Governor.

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SCHEDULES.

First Schedule. Section 2.

Number. Title

50 Vict., No: 12 ... The Opium Duty Act, 1886.

57 Vict., No. 4 ... The Stock Tax Act, 1893.

Second 'Schedule. Sections.

On the undermentioned Goods, Wares, Articles, Merchandise, or things imported into the Colony,

the Rate of Duty in each case shall be as follows:—

Article. Bate of Duty.

Animals and Live Stock, viz. :—

Cattle (including Bullocks, Steers, Cows, and Calves) N.O.E.	15s. each.
Horses, N.O.E.	20s. each.
Pigs, N.O.E,	2s. each.
Sheep (including Wethers, Ewes, and Lambs	Is. 3d. each.
Bulls for stud purposes	Free of duty.
Cows for breeding purposes	Free of duty.
Horses for stud purposes	Free of duty.
Mares for breeding purposes	Free of duty.
Rains for stud purposes	Free of duty.
Ewes for breedino• purposes ...	Free of duty.
Calves and Foals (under the age of six months)	Free of duty.

Apparel, viz. :—

Men's, Women's and Children's (including Underclothing), Hats, Caps, and 15 per cent. ad

Bonnets (trimmed or untrimmed), and all Articles of Attire, x.o.E., whether

valorem.

wholly or in part made up, including Gloves, Hosiery, Mantles, Shirts, Collars,

and Cuffs

Bricks, viz. :—

Building 15s. per thousand.

Cheese	2d. per lb.
Clocks and Watches	15 per cent. ad

valorem.

Cordage, viz. :—

Coir rope	5s. per cwt.
Other Cordage, N.O.E. ...	8s. per cwt.

Doors (wooden), according to thickness, viz. :—

Not exceeding 1-I inches ... ... ...	3s. each.
Over H inches, and not exceeding 11 inches	4s. each.

Over lt inches ... ... 5s. each.

Iron (galvanised, corrugated) 20s. per ton.

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Second Schedule—continued.

Article. Rate of Duty.

Hemp and Flax (unmanufactured)	Free of duty.
Machinery of all kinds ...	5 per cent. ad

valorem.

Machinery, parts of 10 per cent. ad

valorem.

Meat, viz.:—

Bacon ...	2d. per lb.
Hams...	2d. per lb.
Fresh, Frozen, and Chilled ...	d. per lb.
Salt Beef and Salt and Cured Mutton	14. per lb.
Preserved and Tinned ...	1c1. per lb.°
Tongues	2d. per lb.°

Musical Instruments, viz. :—

Pianos—Upright, N.O.E. S5 each.

Do. Square, Grand, or Semi-grand, LOX. .215 each.

Harmoniums and Cabinet Organs, x.o.k. £3 each.

Oatmeal .,.	Free of duty.
Soap, of all other kinds, N.O.L.	7s. ed. per cwt.

" Or package containing that reputed quantity or weight, and so in proportion for any such reputed quantity or w„:1:41,.

N. O.E. denotes "Not otherwise enumerated in Tariff Schedules for the time being."

By Authority : A. Cuirms, Acting Government Printer, Perth.