CUSTOMS TARIFF (NEW ZEALAND
PREFERENCE).
No. 55 of 1957.
An Act to
amend the Customs Tariff (New
Zealand Preference)1933–1954.
[Assented to 20th November, 1957.]
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 and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may
be cited as the Customs Tariff (New
Zealand Preference) 1957.
(2.) The Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1933–1954, as amended by this Act, may
be cited as the Customs Tariff (New
Zealand Preference) 1933–1957.
Amendment
of Tariff.
2. The Schedule to the Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1933–1954
is amended as set out in the Schedule to this Act and duties of Customs
are imposed in accordance with the first-mentioned Schedule as amended by the
last-mentioned Schedule.
Time of
imposition of duties.
3. The time of the imposition of the duties of
Customs imposed by this Act is the twenty-third day of May, One thousand nine
hundred and fifty-seven, at nine o’clock in the forenoon, reckoned according to
standard time in the Australian Capital Territory, and this Act shall be deemed
to have come into operation at that time.
THE SCHEDULE. Section
2.
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Amendment of the Schedule to the Customs
Tariff
(New Zealand Preference) 1933–1954.
Consecutive No. | Tariff Item. | Tariff Rates on Goods the Produce or
Manufacture of New Zealand. |
23. By omitting the whole item and inserting in its stead the
following item:—
|
“23
| Ex 105 Textile piece
goods of wool or containing wool to which—
|
(a) paragraph (4)
of sub-item (e) of Item 105,
except in respect of cut pile moquettes;
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(b)
paragraph (1), paragraph (2) or paragraph (6) of sub-item (f) of Item 105; or
|
(c) sub-item (l) of Item 105,
in the
Schedule to the Customs Tariff 1933–1957, or 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, applies--------------------------------------------------------
| 22½ per cent. |
ad val.” |