CUSTOMS TARIFF (NEWFOUNDLAND PREFERENCE).
No. 50 of 1939.
An Act relating to Duties of Customs.
[Assented to 11th December, 1939.]
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.
1. This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Newfoundland Preference) 1939.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation at a time
and date to be fixed by Proclamation.
Incorporation of
Customs Act.
3. The Customs
Act 1901–1936 shall be incorporated and read as one with this Act.
Definitions.
4. In this Act, unless the contrary intention
appears—
“British Preferential Tariff” means the rates
of duty set out in the column headed “British Preferential Tariff” in the
Schedule to the Customs Tariff, in respect of any goods in relation to which
the expression is used;
“Customs Tariff” means the Customs Tariff 1933–1939, and includes that Act as amended from
time to time and any Act passed in substitution for that Act, or for that Act
as so amended.
Imposition of
duties.
5.—(1.) On and after the commencement of this Act,
duties of Customs at the rates in force under the British Preferential Tariff
shall be imposed on the goods specified in the Schedule to this Act which—
(a)
are the produce or manufacture of Newfoundland;
(b) comply
with the laws and statutory regulations affecting the grant of British
preference; and
(c)
have been shipped in Newfoundland to Australia and
(i) have not been transhipped; or
(ii) have been transhipped and the intended
destination of which, when originally shipped from Newfoundland, the Collector
of Customs is satisfied was Australia.
(2.) The
Duties of Customs imposed on any goods in accordance with this Act shall be in
lieu of the duties (if any) imposed on those goods under the Customs Tariff.
Application of
duties.
6. The Duties of Customs imposed by sub-section
(1.) of section five of this Act shall be charged, collected and paid to the
use of the King for the purposes of the Commonwealth on all goods subject to
those duties which are imported into Australia on or after the commencement of
this Act, or are imported into Australia before, and are not entered for home
consumption until after, the commencement of this Act.
Section
5. THE SCHEDULE.
Item Number in Customs Tariff. | Item. |
Paper, viz.:—
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News-printings not glazed mill-glazed or
coated—
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334 (c)(1)(a)........................ | In rolls not less than 10 inches in width
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334
(c)(1)(b)........................ | In sheets not less
than 20 inches by 25 inches or its equivalent
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