CUSTOMS
TARIFF (No. 2).
No.
79 of 1949.
An
Act relating to Duties of Customs.
[Assented
to 28th October, 1949.]
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 (No. 2) 1949.
(2.) The Customs
Tariff 1933–1948, as amended by the Customs
Tariff 1949, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) Section one of the Customs Tariff 1949 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).
(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act,
may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1933–1949.
Definitions.
2. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the
definition of “non-self-governing Colony”
and inserting in its stead the following definition:—
“‘British
non-self-governing colony’ includes British Protectorates, the Trust Territory
of Tanganyika and so much of the Trust Territories of the Cameroons and
Togoland as is administered by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom;”.
Application
of British Preferential Tariff to certain British countries.
3. Section nine of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the
words “British non-self-governing Colony” and inserting in their stead the
words “British country, being a British non-self-governing colony or a part of
the King’s dominions which was, on the fifteenth day of October, One thousand
nine hundred and forty-six, a British non-self-governing colony,”;
(b) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the
word “Colony” (second occurring) and inserting in its stead the words “British
country”; and
(c) by omitting from sub-section (3.) the
words “British non-self-governing Colony” and inserting in their stead the
words “British country”.
Amendment
of Tariff.
4. The Schedule to the
Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule to this Act and duties of
Customs are hereby imposed in accordance with the first-mentioned Schedule as
amended by the last-mentioned Schedule.
Time
of imposition of duties.
5. The time of the
imposition of the duties of Customs imposed by this Act is the thirteenth day
of October, One thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, 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.
Validation
of proclamations.
6.—(1.) Every proclamation issued on or after the
twelfth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, and prior to
the date on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, declaring that the rates
of duty, set out in the column headed “British Preferential Tariff” in the
Schedule to the Principal Act shall apply to such goods as are specified in the
proclamation as are the produce or manufacture of any British country, being a
British non-self-governing colony or a part of the King’s dominions which was,
on the fifteenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and forty-six a
British non-self-governing colony, specified in the proclamation in relation to
those goods shall be deemed to have been lawfully made.
(2.) The power conferred by sub-section (2.) of section nine of the
Principal Act as amended by this Act to issue a proclamation revoking or
varying a proclamation issued in pursuance of sub-section (1.) of that section
shall include a power to revoke or vary the proclamation referred to in the
last preceding sub-section.
Section
4. THE
SCHEDULE.
—
Amendments of the Schedule to the Principal Act.
—
IMPORT
DUTIES.
Tariff
Items. | British
Preferential Tariff. | Intermediate
Tariff. | General
Tariff. |
DIVISION
VIII.—EARTHENWARE, CEMENT, CHINA, GLASS, AND STONE. |
244. By omitting the whole of sub-item (b) and inserting in its stead the
following sub-item:—
|
“(b) Bifocal and multifocal lenses
(including fused shapes for further manufacture into bifocal’ and multifocal
lenses, whether ground or unground, polished or unpolished), and
single-vision lenses ad
val.
| 10
per cent. | 32½
per cent. | 37½
per cent.” |
By omitting the whole of sub-item (c) and inserting in its stead the
following sub-item:—
|
“(c)
Lenses, edged, for spectacles, except bifocal lenses ad
val.
| 10
per cent. | 25
per cent. | 30
per cent.” |
DIVISION
XI.—JEWELLERY AND FANCY GOODS. |
321. By omitting the whole item and inserting in its
stead the following item:—
|
“321. (a)
Spectacles, spectacle frames, sunglasses, and goggles—
|
(1) Wholly or partly
of gold or silver (not being included in paragraph (2)) ad val.
| 15
per cent. | 42½
per cent. | 47½
per cent. |
(2) Rolled-gold,
gold-filled, gold-cased, gold-plated or gilt, including the articles named
when fitted with pads bridges or knuckles of gold......................... ad val.
| 15
per cent. | 32½
per cent. | 37½
per cent. |
(3) N.E.I. ............................... ad
val.
| 15
per cent. | 32½
per cent. | 37½
per cent. |
(b) Magnifying and reading glasses,
not being spectacles—
|
(1) Wholly or party of
gold or silver (not being included in paragraph (2)) ad val.
| Free | 27½
per cent. | 32½
per cent. |
(2) N.E.I., including
rolled-gold, gold-filled, gold-cased, gold-plated or gilt ad val.
| Free | 17½
per cent. | 22½
per cent.” |