CUSTOMS TARIFF (PAPUA AND
NEW GUINEA PREFERENCE).
No. 63 of 1956.
An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (Papua and New Guinea
Preference) 1936–1950.
[Assented to 20th
September, 1956.]
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 (Papua and New Guinea
Preference) 1956.
(2.) The Customs Tariff (Papua and New Guinea Preference)
1936–1950, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Papua
and New Guinea Preference) 1936–1956.
Amendment of Tariff.
2. The Schedule to the Customs
Tariff (Papua and New Guinea Preference) 1936–1950 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 seventeenth day of May, One
thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, 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 Customs Tariff (Papua and New Guinea Preference) 1936–1950.
IMPORT
DUTIES.
Item No. | Item No. of Customs Tariff 1933–1956. | Item. | Rate of Duty. |
By adding a new Item No. 21 as follows :— |
“21 | 291 (m) | Plywood, as prescribed by Departmental By-laws------- | Free” |
By adding a new Item No. 22 as follows :— |
“22 | 291 | Timber and timber products to which— |
292 | (a) paragraph (1) of sub-item (c), sub-paragraph (b) of
paragraph (2) of sub-item (c), paragraph
(2) of sub-item (d), sub-item (h), sub-item (i), sub-item (j),
sub-item (k), sub-item (l) (except in respect of North
European pine (pinus sylvestris) or North European spruce (picea
excelsa)) or sub-item (n) of
Item 291;
|
293 |
(b) sub-item (g) of Item 292; or
|
(c) sub-item (a) or sub-item (b) of Item 293,
in the Schedule to the Customs
Tariff 1933–1956, 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-----------------------------------------
| Free” |