Customs
Tariff (No. 3)
No. 63 of 1972
An
Act relating to the Exemption from Duties of Customs of Goods for the Use of
certain Representatives of Governments of Countries other than Australia and
their Staffs and Families.
[Assented to 31 August 1972]
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 (No. 3) 1972.
(2.) The Customs
Tariff 1966–1971, as amended by the Customs
Tariff 1972 and by the Customs Tariff
(No. 2) 1972, is in this Act
referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) Section 1 of the Customs Tariff (No. 2)
1972 is amended by omitting sub-section (4.).
(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may
be cited as the Customs Tariff 1966–1972.
Commencement.
2.This Act shall come into operation on the day on which
it receives the Royal Assent.
Application
of items 5 and 6 in Part I. of Second Schedule.
3. Section 33b of
the Principal Act is amended—
(a)by omitting sub-section (1.) and inserting in its stead the following:
sub-section:—
“(1.) Sub-section (1.)
of the last preceding section does not apply in respect of goods that are
intended for the use of a person to whom item 5 or item 6 in Part I. of the
Second Schedule applies where any other goods of the same kind, or of a similar
kind, that have been imported into Australia were, at the time when they were
entered for home consumption, intended for the use of the person and the
Minister, by instrument in writing, declares that, in his opinion, the
reasonable requirements of the person have adequately been met by the other
goods.”;
(b)by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words “consular post or” (first
occurring); and
(c) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-section (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“ (a)the person for whose
use the goods are intended agrees that, if the goods are sold or otherwise
disposed of in Australia or in a Territory of the Commonwealth not forming part
of the Commonwealth within two years after the date of entry of the goods for home
consumption, he will pay to the Commonwealth an amount equal to so much (if
any) as the Minister determines of the duty that, but for that item, would have
been payable in respect of the goods; and”.
Amendment
of Part I. of Second Schedule.
4.Part I. of the Second Schedule to the Principal Act is
amended as set out in the Schedule to this Act.
THE
SCHEDULE Section
4.
AMENDMENT OF PART I. OF
THE SECOND SCHEDULE TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT
Omit
items 5, 6 and 6a, insert the
following items:— |
“5 | Goods
that are, at the time when they are entered for home consumption, intended
for— (a) the
official or personal use of a Trade Commissioner in Australia of any country,
being a person who is not an Australian citizen, is not ordinarily resident
in Australia or in a Territory of the Commonwealth and is not otherwise
engaged in a profession, business or occupation; or (b)the personal use of a member of the
family of a person referred to in the last preceding paragraph, being a
member of the family who forms part of the household of the person, is not an
Australian citizen, is not ordinarily resident in Australia or in a Territory
of the Commonwealth and is not engaged in a profession, business or
occupation
| Free | Free |
“6 | Goods
that— (a) are,
at the time when they are entered for home consumption, intended for the
personal use of a person who is employed on the official staff of a Trade
Commissioner in Australia of any country (being a Trade Commissioner referred
to in paragraph (a) of item 5 of
this Part of this Schedule), is not an Australian citizen, is not ordinarily
resident in Australia or in a Territory of the Commonwealth and is not
otherwise engaged in a profession, business or occupation; and (b)are imported at the time when that
person first takes up duty on the staff of a Trade Commissioner in Australia
of that country
| Free | Free |
“6a | Goods
that— (a) are,
at the time when they are entered for home consumption, intended for the
official use of a Trade Commissioner in Australia of any country, being a
Trade Commissioner to whom paragraph (a)
of item 5 of this Part of this Schedule does not apply; (b) are
declared by that Trade Commissioner, in writing, to be for such official use;
and (c) are
goods, or are included in a class of goods, approved by the Minister for the
purposes of this item
| Free | Free”. |