Customs Tariff (Uranium Concentrate Export Duty) Amendment Act 1987 (Cth)

Customs Tariff (Uranium Concentrate Export Duty) Amendment Act 1987

No. 57 of 1987

 

An Act to amend section 6 of the Customs Tariff(Uranium Concentrate Export Duty) Act 1980, and for related purposes

[Assented to 5 June 1987]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title etc.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Uranium Concentrate Export Duty) Amendment Act 1987.

(2) The Customs Tariff (Uranium Concentrate Export Duty) Act 19801 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall be deemed to have commenced at the hour of 8 o’clock in the evening by standard time in the Australian Capital Territory on 19 August 1986.

 

Rate of duty

3. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “$0.11” and substituting “$0.80”.

Saving

4. Notwithstanding the amendment made by this Act, the Principal Act as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act continues to apply in relation to:

(a) Alligator Rivers Region uranium concentrate loaded on to a vessel before the commencement of this Act for export from Australia;

(b) Alligator Rivers Region uranium concentrate loaded on to a vessel after the commencement of this Act for export from Australia as part of a consignment of Alligator Rivers Region uranium concentrate for export from Australia the loading of which on to that vessel commenced before the commencement of this Act; and

(c) 728,930.42 kilograms of Alligator Rivers Region uranium concentrate exported after the commencement of this Act under a contract between Queensland Mines Ltd and Electricite de France.

NOTE

1. No. 16, 1980, as amended. For previous amendment, see No. 39, 1985.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 18 February 1987

Senate on 17 March 1987