CUSTOMS
TARIFF (SOUTHERN RHODESIAN PREFERENCE).
No. 2 of 1948.
An
Act to amend the Customs Tariff (Southern Rhodesian Preference) 1941.
[Assented
to 27th April, 1948.]
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 (Southern Rhodesian Preference) 1948.
(2.) The Customs
Tariff (Southern Rhodesian Preference)1941 is in this Act referred to as the
Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may
be cited as the Customs Tariff (Southern Rhodesian Preference) 1941–1948.
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
for imposition of duties.
3.The time for the imposition of the duties of Customs
imposed by this Act is the fifteenth day of November, One thousand nine hundred
and forty-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.
AMENDMENTS OF THE SCHEDULE TO THE
PRINCIPAL ACT. Section
2.
Tariff
Item. | Rate
of Duty. |
DIVISION
II.—TOBACCO AND MANUFACTURES THEREOF. |
19. By omitting
the whole item and inserting in its stead the following item;— “19 (a)
Tobacco, unmanufactured, entered to be locally manufactured into tobacco
other than fine cut tobacco suitable for the manufacture of cigarettes—to be
paid at the time of removal to the factory— (1)
Unstemmed ------------------------------------------------------------------ per
lb. (2)
Stemmed, or partly stemmed, or in strips----------------------------- per
lb. (3)
For the manufacture of tobacco containing not less than such proportion by
weight of stemmed Australian-grown tobacco leaf (or its equivalent in terms
of unstemmed tobacco leaf) to the total stemmed tobacco leaf (or its
equivalent in terms of unstemmed tobacco leaf) used, as the Minister may from
time to time determine having regard to the available supply of suitable
Australian-grown tobacco leaf, as prescribed by Departmental By-laws— (a) Unstemmed --------------------------------------------------------- per
lb. (b) Stemmed, or partly stemmed, or in
strips-------------------- per
lb.
19 (b) Tobacco, unmanufactured, entered to
be locally manufactured into cigarettes or into fine cut tobacco suitable for
the manufacture of cigarettes—to be paid at the time of removal to the
factory— (1)
Unstemmed ------------------------------------------------------------------ per
lb. (2)
Stemmed, or partly stemmed, or in strips ---------------------------- per
lb. (3)
For the manufacture of cigarettes containing not less than such proportion by
weight of stemmed Australian-grown tobacco leaf (or its equivalent in terms
of unstemmed tobacco leaf) to the total stemmed tobacco leaf (or its
equivalent in terms of unstemmed tobacco leaf) used, as the Minister may from
time to time determine having regard to the available supply of suitable
Australian-grown tobacco leaf, as prescribed by Departmental By-laws— (a) Unstemmed --------------------------------------------------------- per
lb. (b) Stemmed, or partly stemmed, or in
strips ------------------ per lb.
| British Preferential Tariff less 9d. per lb.” |