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1977 No. 188

REGULATIONS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901*

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

Dated this nineteenth day of October 1977.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

WAL. FIFE

Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE CUSTOMS REGULATIONS 

1. Regulation 50 of the Customs Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) “ One thousand dollars ” (wherever occurring) and substituting “ $1300 ”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) “ Two hundred and fifty dollars ” and substituting “ $325 ”;

(c) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3) “ Five hundred dollars ” and substituting “ $650 ”; and

(d) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3) “ Two hundred and fifty dollars ” (wherever occurring) and substituting “ $325 ”.

2. After regulation 51 of the Customs Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

“ 52. (1) For the purposes of section 80 of the Act, there is payable by a licensee for a warehouse a fee of $5 in respect of—

(a) each entry for home consumption passed in respect of dutiable goods warehoused in the warehouse; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 October 1977.

  Statutory Rules 1926, No. 203 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Customs Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1977, No. 68 and see also Statutory Rules 1977, Nos. 68 and 137.

 

(b) where the licensee is the holder of a permission given under section 71bof the Act that is subject to the condition that the licensee shall, in respect of each of certain periods specified in, or determined in accordance with, the permission, lodge with the Customs a document setting out particulars of dutiable goods delivered for home consumption from the warehouse under the authority of the permission during that period—each such document so lodged by the licensee.

“ (2) The fee in respect of an entry for home consumption referred to in paragraph (1) (a) is payable by the licensee within 21 days after the last day of the month in which the entry is passed.

“ (3) The fee in respect of a document referred to in paragraph (1) (b) is payable by the licensee within 21 days after the last day of the month in which the document is lodged with the Customs.

“ (4) Where—

(a) a person, being the owner of goods warehoused in a warehouse, delivers at the one time to the Collector 2 or more entries for home consumption in respect of dutiable goods warehoused in the warehouse, being dutiable goods that were entered for warehousing—

(i) on the one entry;

(ii) on 2 or more entries delivered at the one time, each of the entries having specified, in accordance with sub-regulation 37 (2), its position in relation to the other entry or entries; or

(iii) on 2 or more entries included in a number of entries delivered at the one time, each of the entries included in that number of entries having specified, in accordance with sub-regulation 37 (2), its position in relation to the other entries in that number of entries;

(b) each of the entries for home consumption specifies, in accordance with sub-regulation 37 (3), its position in relation to the other entry or entries for home consumption; and

(c) each of the entries for home consumption is passed,

those entries for home consumption shall, for the purposes of this regulation, be treated as one entry for home consumption.

“ (5) Where a licensee lodges at the one time with the Customs 2 or more documents referred to in paragraph (1) (b) each of which relates to the one period, those documents shall, for the purposes of this regulation, be treated as one document.

“ (6) In this regulation, ‘ month ’ means a month of a year.

 

“ (7) This regulation does not apply in relation to—

(a) entries for home consumption passed before 1 November 1977; or

(b) documents of the kind referred to in paragraph (1) (b) lodged with the Customs before 1 November 1977.”.

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