Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2013 (Cth)

Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2013

No. 65, 2013

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

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Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2013

No. 65, 2013

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

[Assented to 26 June 2013]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2013.

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 this Act receives the Royal Assent.	26 June 2013
2. Schedule 1	Immediately after the commencement of Schedules 1 and 2 to the Customs Tariff Amendment (Schedule 4) Act 2012.	1 March 2013

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be 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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

Customs Tariff Act 1995

1. 1

   Schedule 4 (paragraph (a) of the cell at table item 20, column headed “Description of goods”)

   Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

(a) either:

(i) they have been exported from Australia for repair or renovation and returned after being repaired or renovated; or

(ii) they are part of a batch repair process to replace goods exported from Australia for repair or renovation;

1. 2

   Schedule 4 (paragraph (a) of the cell at table item 21, column headed “Description of goods”)

   Omit “, alteration or industrial processing”, substitute “or alteration”.

2. 3

   Schedule 4 (table item 27, column headed “Description of goods”)

   Omit “, whose value is less than the amount prescribed by by‑law”.

   4Schedule 4 (table item 30, column headed “Description of goods”)

   Omit “wheelchairs”, substitute “invalid carriages”.

3. 5

   Schedule 4 (table item 35, column headed “Description of goods”)

   Omit “tonnes”, substitute “tons”.

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Application provision

The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to:

1. (a)

   goods imported into Australia on or after the commencement of this Schedule; and

2. (b)

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

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 20 March 2013

Senate on 16 May 2013]

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