CUSTOMS TARIFF (FEDERATION
OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND PREFERENCE).
No. 61 of 1956.
An Act relating to Duties
of Customs on Goods the Produce or Manufacture of the Federation of Rhodesia
and Nyasaland.
[Assented to 13th
September, 1956.]
BE it enacted by the
Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows :—
Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Federation of
Rhodesia and Nyasaland Preference) 1956.
Commencement.
2.This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation at nine o’clock in
the forenoon, reckoned according to standard time in the Australian Capital
Territory, on the sixth day of July, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-five.
Repeal.
3. The Customs Tariff (Southern Rhodesian Preference) 1941
and the Customs Tariff (Southern Rhodesian Preference) 1948 are
repealed.
Incorporation of Customs Act.
4. The Customs Act 1901–1954 is incorporated and shall be read as
one with this Act.
Interpretation.
5.—(1.) In this Act—
“the Customs Tariff” means the Customs
Tariff 1933–1954, and includes that Act as amended from time to time or as
proposed to be amended from time to time by a Customs Tariff alteration
proposed in the Parliament;
“the Federation” means the Federation of
Rhodesia and Nyasaland;
“the Schedule” means the Schedule to this
Act.
(2.) A reference to the British
Preferential Tariff in Column 3 of the Schedule shall, in respect of goods in
relation to which the expression is used, be read as a reference to the rate of
duty which, under section eight of the Customs Tariff, applies to goods of that
kind which are the produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom.
Imposition of duties.
6.—(1.) Duties of Customs are imposed on goods
described in Column 2 of the Schedule which—
(a) are the produce or manufacture of the Federation; and
(b) have been shipped in the Federation for export to Australia.
(2.) The rate of duty imposed on
goods by the last preceding sub-section is the rate specified in Column 3 of
the Schedule opposite to the description of the goods set out in Column 2 of
the Schedule.
(3.) For the purposes of
sub-section (1.) of this section, goods shipped at the port of Lourenço Marques
or the port of Beira in Portuguese East Africa for export to Australia shall be
deemed to have been shipped in the Federation for export to Australia if there
is produced to a Collector a certificate in writing signed by an officer of
Customs in the service of the Government of the Federation certifying that the
country of origin of the goods is the Federation.
Duties imposed under this
Act to be in lieu of duties under Customs Tariff.
7. The duties of Customs imposed on goods under this Act are in lieu
of the duties of Customs imposed on those goods under the Customs Tariff.
Application of duties.
8.The duties of Customs imposed under this Act shall be charged, collected
and paid to the use of the Queen for the purposes of the Commonwealth on all
goods subject to those duties which are imported into Australia after the
commencement of this Act or have been imported into Australia before, and are
not entered for home consumption until after, the commencement of this Act.
THE SCHEDULE. Section 6.
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Column 1. | Column 2. | Column 3. |
Item No. | Description of Goods. | Rate. |
1 | Limejuice, and fruit juices, to which
sub-item
| British Preferential Tariff
|
(b) of Item 16 in the Schedule to the Customs
Tariff applies
|
2 | Tobacco to which Item 19
in the Schedule to the Customs Tariff applies
| British Preferential
Tariff less 9d. per pound
|
3 | Beeswax...............................................................
| British Preferential Tariff
|
4 | Tung oil, in vessels
exceeding one gallon................
| British Preferential Tariff
|
5 | Citrus oils to which
sub-item (b) or sub-item (c) of Item 287 in the Schedule to the
Customs Tariff applies
| British Preferential Tariff
|
6 | Crude asbestos........................................................
| British Preferential Tariff
|
7 | Chrome ore (chromite)............................................
| British Preferential Tariff
|