Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2018 (Cth)

Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2018

No. 114, 2018

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

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Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2018

No. 114, 2018

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

[Assented to 25 September 2018]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1Short title

This Act is the Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2018.

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
Provisions	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.	25 September 2018
2. Schedule 1, Part 1	20 September 2017.	20 September 2017
3. Schedule 1, Part 2	1 July 2018.	1 July 2018
4. Schedule 1, Part 3	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	25 September 2018

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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.

3Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Part 1Amendments commencing 20 September 2017

Customs Tariff Act 1995

1

Schedule 8 (table items 123 to 125)

Repeal the items.

2

Application provision

The amendment made by this Part applies in relation to:

1. (a)

   goods imported into Australia on or after 20 September 2017; and

2. (b)

   goods imported into Australia before 20 September 2017, where the time for working out the rate of import duty on the goods had not occurred before 20 September 2017.

Part 2Amendments commencing 1 July 2018

Customs Tariff Act 1995

3

At the end of Schedule 4

Add:

56 Goods in respect of which the following apply: (a) either: (i) the goods are kits containing either or both medicaments and placebos, the kits do not indicate whether their contents are medicaments or placebos, the kits are imported for use in a clinical trial in Australia and the kits satisfy the requirements prescribed by by‑law; or (ii) the goods are placebos imported for use in a clinical trial in Australia; (b) all requirements imposed by the laws of the Commonwealth, relating to the importation of the goods, have been complied with Free

4

Application provision

The amendment made by this Part applies in relation to:

1. (a)

   goods imported into Australia on or after 1 July 2018; and

2. (b)

   goods imported into Australia before 1 July 2018, where the time for working out the rate of import duty on the goods had not occurred before 1 July 2018.

Part 3Technical amendments

Customs Tariff Act 1995

5

Schedule 12 (table item 135)

Repeal the item.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 27 June 2018

Senate on 20 August 2018]

(128/18)