Customs Tariff Validation Act 1940 (Cth)

CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION.

No. 53 of 1940.

An Act to provide for the Validation of Collections of Duties of Customs under Customs Tariff Proposals.

[Assented to 22nd August, 1940.]

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.

1.This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Validation Act 1940.

Commencement

2.This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Validation of collections under Customs Tariff Proposals.

3. All duties of Customs demanded or collected (whether before the dissolution or expiry of the present House of Representatives or at or after that dissolution or expiry and on or before the twenty-first day of February, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one)

 

pursuant to the Customs Tariff Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the second day of May, One thousand nine hundred and forty, on the twenty-second day of May, One thousand nine hundred and forty, and on the twentieth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and forty, shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.

Imposition of duties of Customs by Proclamation.

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