Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2007 (Cth)

Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2007

No. 2, 2007

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

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Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2007

No. 2, 2007

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

[Assented to 19 February 2007]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2007.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provision(s)	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.	19 February 2007
2. Schedule 1	11 May 2005.	11 May 2005
3. Schedule 2	1 July 2006.	1 July 2006

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by both Houses of the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.

1. (2)

   Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.

3Schedule(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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 1Incorporating Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 4) 2005

Customs Tariff Act 1995

1. 1

   Schedule 4 (item 47, the rates of duty in column 3)

   Repeal the rates of duty, substitute:

Free

2

Application

The amendment made by item 1 of this Schedule applies in relation to:

1. (a)

   goods imported into Australia on or after 11 May 2005; and

2. (b)

   goods imported into Australia before 11 May 2005, where the time for working out the rate of import duty on the goods had not occurred before 11 May 2005.

Schedule 2Incorporating Customs Tariff Proposal (No. 1) 2006

Customs Tariff Act 1995

1. 1

   Schedule 4 (item 31, the description of goods in column 2)

   Omit “repair or maintenance”, substitute “repair, maintenance or modification”.

2

Schedule 4 (item 71)

Repeal the item, substitute:

71	Goods, including machinery, equipment, or their components, as prescribed by by‑law: (A) that are entered for home consumption on or after 1 July 2002, and are for use in any of the following industries: (i) mining; (ii) resource processing; (iii) agriculture; (iv) food processing; (v) food packaging; (vi) manufacturing (within the meaning of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC)); (vii) gas supply; or	Free
(B) that are imported into Australia, and entered for home consumption, on or after 1 July 2006, and are for use in either of the following industries: (i) power supply; (ii) water supply

3

Application—item 1

The amendment made by item 1 of this Schedule applies in relation to goods entered for home consumption on or after 1 July 2006.

4

Transitional

(1) This item applies to a determination:

1. (a)

   that was made under subsection 273(1) of the Customs Act 1901 for the purposes of item 71 of Schedule 4 to the Customs Tariff Act 1995; and

2. (b)

   that was in force immediately before the commencement of this item.

(2) The determination has effect after the commencement of this item as if it were a determination made for the purposes of item 71 of that Schedule after that commencement.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 29 November 2006

Senate on 6 February 2007]

(171/06)