Customs
Undertakings (Penalties) Amendment Act 1985
No. 177 of 1985
An
Act to amend the Customs Undertakings (Penalties) Act 1985, and for related purposes
[Assented to 16 December 1985]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Customs Undertakings (Penalties) Amendment Act 1985.
(2)
The Customs Undertakings (Penalties) Act 19811is
in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall be
deemed to have come into operation on 30 May 1985.
Penalty
3. Section 4 of the
Principal Act is amended—
(a) by inserting in
sub-section (1) “or her” after “him”;
(b) by inserting in sub-section (2)
“goods” after “entered” (first occurring);
(c) by omitting from sub-section (2)
“year” and substituting “period, or each of the periods,”; and
(d) by omitting from sub-section (2)
“goods imported by him”.
Application
4.
Notwithstanding
the amendments of section 4 of the
Principal Act made by this Act, that section as in force immediately before the
commencement of this Act continues to apply in respect of Customs undertakings,
within the meaning of the Principal Act, given before that commencement.
NOTE
1. No. 47, 1981,
as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 39, 1985.
[Minister’s
second reading speech made in—
House
of Representatives on 13 November 1985
Senate
on 5 December 1985