Customs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1996

No. 326 1

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Customs Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Customs Act 1901.

Dated 20 December 1996.

 

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

  

G. D. PROSSER

Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Customs Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Regulation 126 (Circumstances under which refunds, rebates and remissions are made)

2.1   Subregulation 126 (1):

Add at the end:

• “; (w)

  goods were exported after 30 June 1996 and before regulation 139 commenced and:

  • (i)

    dumping duty within the meaning of subregulation 139 (1) was paid on the goods; or

  • (ii)

    the goods were specified goods within the meaning of subregulation 131 (1) (as applied by subregulation 139 (2)); or

  • (iii)

    imported goods on which dumping duty had been paid were used in the manufacture or treatment of the goods.”.

3.   Regulation 128B (Calculation of refunds or remissions of duty)

3.1   Add at the end:

 “(6) The amount of a refund, rebate or remission of duty that may be made in the circumstance prescribed by paragraph 126 (1) (w) is the amount of drawback that would have been payable under the regulations applied by regulation 139 if those regulations had been in force when the goods were exported.”.

4.   New regulation 139

4.1   After regulation 138B, insert:

Drawback of dumping duty

 “139. (1) In subregulation (2), ‘dumping duty’ means any of the following duties payable under the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 1975:

• (a)

  dumping duty;

• (b)

  interim dumping duty;

• (c)

  third country dumping duty;

• (d)

  interim third country dumping duty;

• (e)

  countervailing duty;

• (f)

  interim countervailing duty;

• (g)

  third country countervailing duty;

• (h)

  interim third country countervailing duty .

 “(2) Regulations 129, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 136A, 136B, 137, 138A and 138B apply in relation toimported goods on which dumping duty has been paid as if references in those regulations to import duty were references to dumping duty.

[NOTE:

 For the refund of dumping duty paid on or in connection with goods exported after 30 June 1996 and before the commencement of this regulation, see paragraph 126 (1) (w).]

 “(3) However, subregulations 134 (2) and 134 (3) are not applied in relation to the imported goods if:

• (a)

  they were used in the manufacture or production of specified goods within the meaning of subregulation 131 (1); and

• (b)

  the manufacture or production started before this regulation commenced.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 December 1996.

2. Statutory Rules 1926 No. 203 as amended by 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; 1956 Nos. 71, 83, 91 and 127; 1957 Nos. 57 and 76; 1958 No. 86; 1959 No. 106; 1960 Nos. 29 and 70; 1961 Nos. 60 and 144; 1962 Nos. 102 and 103; 1963 No. 149; 1964 No. 141; 1965 Nos. 86, 121 and 194; 1966 Nos. 15 and 173; 1967; Nos. 9 and 179; 1968 No. 68; 1969 Nos. 69, 77, 133, 152 and 186; 1970 Nos. 104, 113 and 170; 1971 Nos. 9, 59 and 170; 1972 No. 96; 1973 Nos. 155, 251, 257 and 268; 1974 Nos. 29 and 112; 1976 Nos. 261 and 262; 1977 Nos. 68, 137 and 188; 1978 Nos. 32, 147, 180 and 195; 1979 Nos. 181, 275 and 277; 1980 Nos. 109, 255, 372 and 377; 1981 Nos. 162, 265 and 382; 1982 Nos. 140, 255, 311, 335 and 404 and Act No. 108, 1982; Statutory Rules 1983 Nos. 92, 93, 327, 328, 329 and 330 and Act No. 101, 1983;

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Statutory Rules 1984 Nos. 13, 18, 137, 319 and 462; 1985 Nos. 12, 71, 76, 126, 306 and 308; 1986 Nos. 77, 91, 94, 144, 174, 175, 176, 215, 248, 361, 363, 367 and 368; 1987 Nos. 72, 102, 103, 124, 140, 162, 244, 297 and 316; 1988 Nos. 111, 179, 207, 260 and 270; 1989 Nos. 100, 101, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 243, 260 and 409; 1990 Nos. 6, 8, 123, 147, 148, 189, 217, 220, 222, 248, 274 and 450; 1991 Nos. 30, 109, 129, 139, 140, 228, 290, 316 and 384; 1992 Nos. 72, 175, 277 (as amended by 1992 No. 326), 328, 343, 344, 447 and 464; 1993 Nos. 66, 158 and 339; 1994 Nos. 53, 82, 183, 311, 312, 351, 366, 367, 391 and 435; 1995 Nos. 99, 136, 244, 313, 321, 352, 423 and 424; 1996 Nos. 42, 43 and 134.