CUSTOMS TARIFF.
No.
16 of 1922.
An
Act relating to Duties of Customs.
[Assented to 28th September, 1922.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most
Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short
title and citation.
1. (1.) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1922.
(2.) The Customs
Tariff 1921 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal
Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1921–1922.
Amendment
of Tariff.
2.The Schedule
to the Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule to this Act, and
Duties of Customs are hereby imposed in accordance with the first-mentioned
Schedule as amended by the last-mentioned Schedule.
Date
from which new duties commence.
3.The duties
imposed by the Schedule to this Act shall be deemed to have been imposed, and
any article by that Schedule declared to be free of duty shall be deemed to
have been free, as from the fourteenth day of September, One thousand nine
hundred and twenty-two, at nine o’clock in the forenoon, Victorian time.
THE
SCHEDULE.
–
Amendments
to the Schedule to the Custom Tariff 1921.
Item No. | Tariff Items. | British Preferential Tariff. | Intermediate Tariff. | General Tariff. |
136 (e) | By omitting from the item the
whole of sub-item (e) (three
times occurring) and inserting in its stead the following sub-item:—
|
“(e) (1) Wire of No. 16 or finer
gauge............... ad val.
| 20
per cent. | 30
per cent. | 35
per cent. |
(2) Wire, fencing, of gauges No. 8
to 14, both gauges inclusive, for use only as fencing wire without further manufacture,
or for such manufacturing purposes as may be prescribed by Departmental
By-laws................................................................. ad
val.
| Free | 5
per cent. | 10 per cent |
(3) Wire, other......................................... per
ton | 52s. | 72s.
6d. | 90s.” |
145 | By omitting from the item the following words:— |
“And on and after 1st January,
1922 |
per
ton | 72s. | 90s. | 110s.” |
158 | By omitting the whole of the item
and inserting in its stead the following item:—
|
“158. Wire Netting............................................... ad
val. | Free | 5
per cent. | 10
per cent.” |
177 | By omitting from sub-item (a) of the item the words “Traction
Engines n.e.i.”, and
|
By omitting from sub-item (b) of the item the words “of a class
or kind not made in Australia, as prescribed by Departmental By-laws”.
|
181 | By inserting in sub-item (a) (second time occurring) after the
words “Measuring and Recording Instruments” the words “other than Alternating
Current Recording Watt-hour Meters” and by inserting after that sub-item
|
(a) the following:—
|
“(aa) Alternating Current Recording
Watt-hour Meters
|
ad val. | 35
per cent. | 40
per cent. | 45
per cent.” |