Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000 (Cth)

Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000

No. 55, 2000

Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000

No. 55, 2000

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995, and for related purposes

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Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000

No. 55, 2000

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995, and for related purposes

[Assented to 30 May 2000]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 2) 2000.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

2. (2)

   Schedule 1 is taken to have commenced on 22 July 1999.

3. (3)

   Schedule 2 is taken to have commenced on 3 September 1999.

4. (4)

   Schedule 3 is taken to have commenced on 1 October 1999.

3Schedule(s)

Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 having effect from 22 July 1999

1

After note 2 to Chapter 57 of Schedule 3

Insert:

Additional Note.

1. 1.‑

   For the purposes of this Chapter, the expression “floor coverings” includes all mats, rugs, and similar goods.

Schedule 2—Amendment of the Customs Tariff Act 1995 having effect from 3 September 1999

1

Subheading 9017.20.00 of Schedule 3

Repeal the subheading, substitute:

9017.20	‑Other drawing, marking‑out or mathematical calculating instruments:
9017.20.10	‑‑‑Goods, as follows: (a) disc calculators and the like; (b) drawing curves; (c) parallel rules of plastic; (d) protractors; (e) set squares; (f) stencils	5%
9017.20.90	‑‑‑Other	Free

2

Subheading 9017.80.00 of Schedule 3

Repeal the subheading, substitute:

9017.80	‑Other instruments:
9017.80.20	‑‑‑Goods, as follows: (a) graduated rules of wood or plastic, other than folding rules; (b) steel tape measures	5%
9017.80.80	‑‑‑Other	Free

1. 3

   Subheadings 9028.10.00 and 9028.20.00 of Schedule 3

   Repeal the subheadings, substitute:

9028.10	‑Gas meters:
9028.10.10	‑‑‑Of the household supply kind	5%
9028.10.90	‑‑‑Other	Free
9028.20	‑Liquid meters:
9028.20.10	‑‑‑Water meters, as follows: (a) of the inferential kind; (b) of the positive kind not exceeding 100 mm diameter in size	5%
9028.20.90	‑‑‑Other	Free

1. 4

   The rates of duty in column 3 of subheading 9028.30.00 of Schedule 3

   Repeal the rates, substitute:

5%

1. 5

   Subheadings 9031.10.00 and 9031.20.00 of Schedule 3

   Repeal the subheadings, substitute:

9031.10	‑Machines for balancing mechanical parts:
9031.10.20	‑‑‑Motor vehicle wheel balancers of the static kind	5%
9031.10.80	‑‑‑Other	Free
9031.20	‑Test benches:
9031.20.10	‑‑‑Electrical, for internal combustion engines	5%
9031.20.90	‑‑‑Other	Free

Schedule 3—Amendment of the Customs Tariff Act 1995 having effect from 1 October 1999

1

The rates of duty in column 3 of subheadings 7210.11.00 and 7210.12.00 of Schedule 3

Repeal the rates of duty, substitute:

Free

1. 2

   The rates of duty in column 3 of subheading 7212.10.00 of Schedule 3

   Repeal the rates of duty, substitute:

Free

3

After item 65 in Part III of Schedule 4

Insert:

66 Aluminium sheet classified in subheadings 7606.12.00 or 7606.92.00 used in the manufacture of aluminium cans, as prescribed by by‑law Free

(236/99)

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 8 December 1999

Senate on 12 April 2000