Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1934 (Cth)

CUSTOMS TARIFF (NEW ZEALAND PREFERENCE).

 

No. 2 of 1934.

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1933.

[Assented to 30th June, 1934.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1934.

 

(2.) The Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1933 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1933–1934.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall commence on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.

Definitions.

3. Section four of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting the word “and”; and

(b) by inserting after the definition of the word “Proclamation” the following definition :—

“‘the New Zealand British Preferential Tariff’ means the British Preferential Tariff in force in the Dominion of New Zealand on the date on which any goods in relation to which the expression is used are entered for home consumption in that Dominion; and”.

Rates of duty on Imports from the Dominion of New Zealand.

4.Section five of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section (1.) the following sub-section:—

“(1a.) Notwithstanding the provisions of the last preceding sub-section, where the rate of duty under the New Zealand British Preferential Tariff on any specific class of goods not specified in the Schedule to this Act and imported into the Dominion of New Zealand is less than the rate of duty on the same class of goods under the British Preferential Tariff, and His Majesty’s Government in New Zealand has requested His Majesty’s Government in the Commonwealth to admit into the Commonwealth goods of that class (being the produce or manufacture of the Dominion of New Zealand), at the rate of duty chargeable on goods of that class under the New Zealand British Preferential Tariff, the Governor-General may, by Proclamation, declare that there shall be payable, as from a time and date specified in the Proclamation, on the importation into Australia of goods of that class (being the produce or manufacture of the Dominion of New Zealand), Duties of Customs at the rate specified in the Proclamation, and Duties of Customs shall be payable accordingly on goods of that class instead of the Duties of Customs payable under the last preceding sub-section.”.