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Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs

Case [1996] FCA 1135

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AGLC: Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs [1996] FCA 1135
Case: [1996] FCA 1135
Decision Date: 24 Dec 1996

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Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs [1996] FCA 1135

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Citation 1 (Para 58)

…minimis non curat lex (the law does not concern itself with trifling matters): see eg. Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collection of Customs (1996) 72 FCR 125 at 127–31. Whether something is so trivial that it can be ignored will depend on the context of the statutory provision in question. The creation of…
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Citation 2

…v ARV[No 2] 2021 WASCA 62 Charlie Carter Pty Ltd v Streeter & Male Pty Ltd (1999) 4 WAR 1 Commissioner for Consumer Protection v Carey [2014] WASCA 7 Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 72 FCR 125; [1996] FCA 1135 Hancock v Executive Director of Public Health [2008] WASC 224 Kirk v Industrial Court of New South Wales [2010] HCA 1; (2…
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Citation 3 (Para 268)

…n the 2016 year is so minor that it should be ignored under the de minimis principle. In Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 72 FCR 125 at 128, Hill J explained the de minimis principle in this way:…
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Citation 4

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Citation 5 (Para 54)

…concern itself with trifling matters, discussed by Hill J in Farnell Electronic Electric Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 72 FCR 125; [1996] FCA 1135. Thus many editions of F Bennion, Statutory Interpretation, have stated that “unless the contrary intention appears, an enactment by implication impo…
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Citation 6 (Para 32)

…e the part disclosed was trivial under the de minimis principle as discussed in Farnell Electronic Electric Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 72 FCR 125.…
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Citation 7 (Para 37)

…otherwise of the maxim depends upon the context in which it falls to be considered. [20] Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 142 ALR 322 at [327].…
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Citation 8 (Para 2)

…(1993) 31 NSWLR 246 per Kirby P at 263 (with whom Meagher JA agreed); cf. Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 72 FCR 125 (Hill J) at 132-133.…
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Citation 9 (Para 4)

…plicable statutory scheme is a question of statutory construction. As Hill J observed in Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 72 FCR 125 at 127: … there are many references in texts and cases to the de minimis rule as a rule of construction. F.A.R Bennion. Statutory Interpretation: A C…
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Citation 10

…17 (1996) 72 FCR 125…
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Citation 11 (Para 19)

…sed in the Latin maxim “de minimis non curat lex” – in the judgment of Hill J in Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 72 FCR 125. At 72 FCR 128 Hill J cited both the second edition of Benion Statutory Interpretation: A Code and the 4 th edition of Halsbury’s Laws of England as authorit…
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Citation 12

…Ss4, 10 Domestic Violence Act Farnell Electronic Components v Collector of Customs (1996) 142 ALR 322 Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law 2004 SCC 4 Williams v The Queen (1978) 140 CLR 591…
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Citation 13 (Para 12)

…tation ” 4 th Ed p 958; Williams v The Queen (1978) 140 CLR 591 at 602 per Murphy J; Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 72 FCR 125.…
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Citation 14

…8 Re Mobil Oil Australia Limited and Industry Research and Development Board 95 ATC 2042 Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 142 ALR 322 Tillmanns Butcheries Pty Ltd v Australasian Meat Industry Employees’ Union (1979) 27 ALR 367 Radio 2UE Sydney Pty Ltd v Stereo FM Pty Ltd (1982) 44 A…
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Citation 15 (Para 1)

…ty of situations where a trivial failure to comply with a specific condition was ignored. However, it did not apply on the facts of the case. [61](1996) 72 FCR 125.…
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Citation 16

…p Australia Pty Ltd v Kelly (2013) 86 NSWLR 55; [2013] NSWCA 361 Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 142 ALR 322; (1996) 72 FCR 125 Hoxton Park Residents Action Group Inc v Liverpool City Council (2011) 81 NSWLR 638 R v Young [1999] NSWCCA 166; 46 NSWLR 681 Texts Cited: Nil Category:…
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Citation 17 (Para 14)

…provision may be read to allow minor departure from, for example, a prohibition: see Farnell Electronic Components Pty Ltd v Collector of Customs (1996) 72 FCR 125 at 130 per Hill J. The applicability or otherwise of the de minimis maxim depends upon the context in which it falls to be considered: see Farnell at 130…

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Wade v Burns [1966] HCA 35
Citation 2

…Re Secretary to the Department of Health (Muirhead J, unreported, 1 August 1986); discussed. Case 10,716 (1996) 32 ATR 1132; discussed. Wade v Burns (1966) 115 CLR 537; discussed. Yong Min Jung v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1994) 35 ALD 729; discussed.…
Randwick Corporation v Rutledge [1959] HCA 63
Citation 3

…e the exemption if otherwise the plaintiff had operated a railway. In so holding his Honour (at 93) referred to Randwick Municipal Council v Rutledge (1959) 102 CLR 54 at 94, where Windeyer J made the following observation: "The question arises, for example, when part of the subject land is used for the relevant pur…
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Citation 4

…In Biga Nominees Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation (1991) 104 FLR 74 the issue before the Supreme Court of Victoria was whether a forklift was exempt from sales tax as being for use "exclusively ... in connection with, the establishment, operation or maintenance ... of a railway" . It was known tha…

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