Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 1) 1996 (Cth)

Customs Tariff Amendment Act

(No. 1) 1996

No. 32, 1996

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995

Contents
1	Short title.................................................................................................................................................	807
2	Commencement....................................................................................................................................	807
3	Schedule(s)..............................................................................................................................................	808
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Customs Tariff Act 1995		809

Customs Tariff Amendment Act

(No. 1) 1996

No. 32, 1996

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

[Assented to 9 July 1996]

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 1) 1996.

2 Commencement

(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences at a time to be fixed by Proclamation, being a time after the time that the Customs Tariff (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1996 commences.

(2) If this Act does not commence within 6 months after the day on which it receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1— Amendment of the Customs Tariff Act 1995

1 Item 11 of Schedule 4

Repeal the item.

2 Item 19 of Schedule 4

Omit “Free”, substitute “3% DC:3%".

3 Item 45 of Schedule 4

Omit the item, substitute:

45	Capital equipment for use in the mining and resource	Free
processing industries, as prescribed by by-law

4 Item 46 of Schedule 4

Omit the item, substitute:

46	Capital equipment for use in the agriculture, food	Free
processing industries, as prescribed by by-law
as prescribed by by-law

5 Item 47 of Schedule 4

Omit “Free”, substitute “3% DC:3%”.

6 Item 50 of Schedule 4

Omit “Free”, substitute “3% DC:3%”.

7 After item 50 of Schedule 4

Insert:

50A Goods that: Free

(a) a Tariff Concession Order declares are goods to which item 50 applies; and

(b) are categorised, at the time when they are entered for home consumption, as consumption goods in accordance with the United Nations Statistical Papers entitled “Classification by Broad Economic Category” and “Standard International Trade Classification Revision 3”.

8 Item 56 of Schedule 4

Omit "and which is ineligible for a Tariff Concession Order”.

9 Item 57 of Schedule 4

Omit “which are ineligible for a Tariff Concession Order”.

10 Item 60 of Schedule 4

Omit “which are ineligible for a Tariff Concession Order”.

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[Minister's second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 30 May 1996

Senate on 19 June 1996