CUSTOMS
TARIFF (No. 3).
No.
60 of 1950.
An
Act relating to Duties of Customs.
[Assented
to 14th December, 1950.]
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. 3) 1950.
(2.) The Customs Tariff 1933–1949,
as amended by the Customs Tariff 1950
and by the Customs Tariff (No. 2) 1950, is in this Act referred to
as the Principal Act.
(3.) Section one of the Customs
Tariff (No. 2) 1950 is amended by
omitting sub-section (4.).
(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1933–1950.
Amendment
of Tariff.
2.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.
3. The time of the imposition of the duties of Customs imposed by
this Act is the twenty-seventh day of October, One thousand nine hundred and
fifty, 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.
——
Amendments of the Schedule to the Principal Act.
Import
Duties.
Tariff
Items. | British
Preferential Tariff. | Intermediate
Tariff. | General
Tariff. |
DIVISION
IV.—AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND GROCERIES. |
73. By omitting the whole item and inserting in its
stead the following item:—
|
“73.
Matches and Vestas of all kinds:—
|
(a) (1) Wax, in boxes containing 50
vestas or less per
gross of boxes
| 5s.
7d. | 6s.
7d. | 6s.
7d. |
(2) Wood, in boxes containing 70 matches
or less per gross of boxes
| 7s.
10d. | 8s.
9d. | 8s.
9d. |
(b) (1) Wax, in boxes containing
over 50, but not exceeding 100 vestas per gross of boxes
| 11s.
2d. | 13s.
2d. | 13s.
2d. |
(2) Wood, in boxes containing over 70, but not
exceeding 140 matches per
gross of boxes
| 15s.
8d. | 17s.
10d. | 17s.
l0d. |
(c) (1)
Wax, for each additional 50 vestas or portion of 50 vestas per box, an
additional duty per gross of boxes
| 5s.
7d. | 6s.
7d. | 6s.
7d. |
(2) Wood, for each additional 70
matches or portion of 70 matches per box, an additional duty per gross of boxes
| 7s.
l0d. | 8s.
9d. | 8s.
9d. |
(d) N.E.I.------------- per
1,000 matches or vestas
| 11d. | 1s.
0½d. | 1s.
0½d. |
(e) When put up in boxes
or in other form for retail sale, unless the number of matches or vestas
contained in each box or other retail unit is printed or stamped thereon, in
addition to the duties set out in (a),
(b), (c), (d) above-------- per gross of boxes
| 2s. | 2s. | 2s. |
or per 1,000 matches
or vestas |
whichever
rate is applicable. | 3d. | 3d. | 3d.” |