Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1957. No. 57.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901-1957.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901-1957.

Dated this 12th day of October, 1957.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Customs and Excise.

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Amendments of the Customs Regulations. 

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-third day of April, 1957.

2. Regulation 71 of the Customs Regulations is amended by omitting all the words from and including the words “Finished piece goods” to and including the word “interlinings” and inserting in their stead the words “Finished piece goods woven wholly of cotton.”.

3. Regulation 72 of the Customs Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (2.) the following sub-regulations:—

“(2a.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding sub-regulation, an article to which this sub-regulation applies may be delivered for home consumption on payment of an amount of duty equal to—

(a) the amount of duty calculated at the British Preferential Tariff rate on that article; or

(b) the total amount of duty that would be payable on the imported goods (not being goods entered for home consumption) used in the manufacture of that article if those imported goods were entered for home consumption, less any allowance for waste,

whichever is the less.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 17th October, 1957.

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 203, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 17, 95 and 121; 1928, Nos. 47, 57, 74 and 95; 1929, Nos. 25, 56 and 127; 1930, Nos. 91, 138 and 140; 1931, Nos. 16, 42 and 90; 1932, No. 90; 1933, Nos. 21, 105, 106 and 129; 1934, Nos. 109 and 127; 1935, Nos. 1, 41, 69 and 113; 1936, Nos. 49 and 163; 1938, No. 111; 1939, No. 157; 1940, Nos. 203 and 256; 1946, Nos. 127 and 161; 1947, Nos. 29, 83, 94 and 152; 1948, No. 156; 1949, Nos. 34, 78, 95 and 111; 1950, No. 17; 1951, Nos. 34, 38, 71, 99, 106, 109 and 159; 1952, No. 96; 1953, No. 102; 1954, No. 21; 1955, Nos. 15, 32 and 66; and 1956, Nos. 71, 83, 91 and 127.

4426/57.—Price 3d. 9/17.9.1957.

 

“(2b.) The last preceding sub-regulation applies to the following articles, namely:—

Finished piece goods woven wholly of cotton.

Piece goods, being ticking woven wholly of linen or wholly of linen and cotton.

Piece goods woven wholly of cotton and rayon and in which cotton predominates.”.

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By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.