Tariff Act 1893 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO SEPTIMO

VICTORIE REGIN2E

No. 11

An Act to repeal ' The Tariff Act, 1888,' and to make

other Provisions in lieu thereof.

[Assented to 4th October, 1893.

HEREAS it is expedient to repeal The Tariff Act, 1888,' and Preamble

the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and con-W to make other Provisions in lieu thereof : Be it enacted by sent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :-

1.	The Tariff Act, 1888,' is hereby repealed.	Repeal of 51 vie.,
No. 23

2. From and after the coming into operation of this Act there shall be charged, raised, collected, levied, and paid to Her Majesty upon all goods, wares, merchandise, and things not enumerated or Duties on goods

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included in the Sixth Schedule to this Act, imported into Western Australia whether by sea or land, such duties as are respectively specified in the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Schedules to this Act, at the rates, and for the quantities therein mentioned, and at proportional rates for any smaller quantities, and such duties shall be payable also upon any of the said goods which are now in any bonded

warehouse.

Mode of levying	3. The said duties shall be collected and , levied in the manner pro- vided by, and subject and according to the provisions of any Act or Law for the time being in force for the general regulation of the Customs of the Colony.
duties
Commencement
and short title	4. This Act shall be deemed and taken to have been in force and to have come into operation on and from the seventh day of September, One thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and may be cited as The Tariff Act, 1893.'
of Act

IV. C. F. ROBINSON,

GOVERNOR.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Table of Specific Duties

BITE OF

PER DUTY

Ale, Beer, and Stout, in wood Gallon 3

bottles Gallon

Arrowroot, Sago, Tapioca, Cornflour, and other Farina-

ceous Foods, N.O.E. . . , lb. 1

Bacon lb 3

Barley (other than malting) Bushel 4

(malting) Bushel 6

Beef, salt lb 11

Beans Bushel

Beeswax lb 2

Biscuits. . . ....... lb. 2

Boots, Men's Leather, invoiced at or under 10s. per pair doz. pairs 1 0

Women's, invoiced at or under Os. per pair . doz. pairs

. 1 0

Bran Ton 0

Brandy, colouring Gallon 1 0

Butter	lb	2
Camels	Each	0
Candles	lb	2
Cement	Barrel	0

Cheese lb 3

Chaff	Ton	10	0
Chicory	lb	3
Cigars	lb	0
Cigarettes	lb	0
Cider and Pery	Gallon	0

Cocoa and Chocolate, . lb. 3

Cocoa, in slabs . . . lb. 1

Coffee (roasted or ground) lb 3

„ Raw lb 1

N.O.E.-" Not otherwise enumerated:

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FIRST Scumumn—Table of Specific Duties—continued

RATE O1

ARTICLE vim DUTY

d.

Coffee, Date lb

Mixed with Chicory lb 6

Confectionery	lb	4
Currants	lb	2
Dates	b	1
Dogs	each	0
dozen	2

Eggs Essences, being spirituous compounds . Gallon 1 0

Fish (preserved, tinned, salted, and dried) lb. 1

Flour . . . . .. Ton 1 0

„	Self-raisin
Self-raisg lb 1

Fruit (dried) N.O.E. lb 3

,, Pulp lb 2

Ginger (whole) lb 2

„ (ground) lb 4

Glue	lb	1
Glucose	cwt	0
Gram	Bushel	6

Hams lb 3

Hay	Ton	1	0
Hides (green)	Hide
Honey	lb	2
Hops	lb	4
Iron (galvanised, corrugated)	Ton	0
Iron (galvanised, plain)	Ton	1	0
Lard. .	lb.	2
Lead (sheet, pig, and piping)	cwt	6
Linseed (whole)	Bushel
Maize	Bushel	6
Malt	Bushel	0

Meat (preserved) lb 0!+.

(fresh)

Molasses and Golden Syrup	cwt	0
Nuts (edible)	lb	2
Oats	Bushel	4
Oatmeal	Ton	0

Oil Cake	Ton	1	0
Oil—Fish, Vegetable, and Turpentine, N.O.E..	Gallon	6

Mineral . . . .... Gallon 41

Onions Ton 0

Opium lb 1 0

Peas Bushel 6

, (split) Peel (candied) cwt 2 0

lb 3

Pepper (ground) 3

(whole) Ib 1

Plaster Paris	cwt	0
Pollard	Ton	0
Pork (salt)	lb	2
Potatoes	Ton	0
Powder (gun and sporting)	lb	4
Powder (blasting)	lb	1

Powders (baking, egg, yeast, and custard) . lb. 3

Raisins .	.	.	.	....	lb.	3
Rice	cwt	0

„ Paddy cwt 2 0

„ Ground cwt 4 0

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FIRST SCHEDULE—Table of Specific Duties—continued

RATE OF

ARTICLE PER DUTY

Rice, Meal	cwt	4
Rye	Bushel	0
Salt, x.o E.	Ton	0
Shot	cwt	5

Snuff	lb	6
Soap, all other kinds, R.O.E.	cwt	5
Soda Crystals	cwt	2
Spices (ground)	lb	0
Spices (whole)	lb	0
Spirits, spirits of wine, cordials, or strong waters of all

kinds, N.O.E., for each and every Imperial

gallon of such spirits of any strength not

exceeding the strength of proof by Sykes'

hydrometer, and so in proportion for any

greater strength than the strength of proof,

or any quantity greater or less than a gallon . Gallon 16 0

of Wine, proof as above, destroyed in Bond, under Regulations to be framed . . . Gallon 5 0

Methylated . . Gallon 2 0

Sugar	cwt	4 0
Tea	lb	0 4
Tongues.	lb	0 3
Tobacco (manufactured)	lb	3 0
lb	2 0

„	(unmanufactured)
(Sheepwash) destroyed in bond lb. 0 3

Vinegar . . .	....	Gallon	0 6
Wheat	Bushel	0 6
Whiting	cwt	1 0
Wine (sparkling)	Gallon	10 0
Gallon	6 6

„ (still)

Woolbales each 0 4

SECOND SCHEDULE

On the undermentioned Goods, Wares, Articles, Merchandise, or things imported into the Colony, a Duty of 5 per cent., according to the value of the same :—

Abdominal Belts and Trusses.	Belting for Machinery.
Agricultural, Horticultural (not Garden Rollers), and Viticultural Implements,	Blocks and Sheaves.
Bluestone (sulph. copper).

and Machinery, and parts of same. Boilers (steam, and parts of), N.O.E.

Alkalies, of all kinds, N.O.E.	Bookbinders' Machinery and Materials,
Anchors.
Asbestos.	Bottles (empty).
Atlases, Maps, Charts, Globes, and Pic- ture Cards for School use.	Bottling Plant, Wire, and Capsules.
Brewery and Distilling Plant.
Bags and Sacks, ROE.	Bristles and Bass.
Bagging in the piece.	Buttons.
Bark for tanning.	Bunting in piece.
Bedsteads.	Bungs.

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SECOND SCHEDULE—COW/at/led

Cables and Chains.	Oil (cod, in bulk).
Cane, N.O.E.	Paper (unprinted) in the flat, in original

Canvas. wrappers, N.O.E.

Cardboard for boxmaking.	Paraffine Wax.
Carriage and Cart Makers' Materials,	Pine and other Softwoods (in balks,

rough or hewn).

Casks (empty).	Pitch.
Cod Liver Oil (refined).	Printing Machinery, Presses, Type, and

Copper Wire. Material, no.n.

Cordage and Rope.	Presses (copying and embossing).
Corks.	Pumps and Apparatus for raising

Dyers' Materials. Water, N.O.E.

Engine Packing.	Quicksilver.
Flock, Kapoek, and Horsehair.	Resin.
Forges and Anvils.	Saddlers' Materials, Furniture and

Furniture Makers' Materials, D.O.E. Ironmongery.

Forfars, Dowlas, and Flax Sheeting in	Salt, Rock.
the piece. Grindstones.	Sewing Cottons, Silks, and Threads.
Sheep Dip.
Grindery (Shoemakers').	Shellac.
Harness Oil, Leather Dressing, and	Silk for Flour dressing.

Composition. Slips and Docks (patent).

Hat and Bonnet Shapes.	Smelting Material, D.O.E.
Hoop Iron.	Soda-ash and Nitrate of Potash.
Hose of all kinds, N.O.E.	Spun Yarn.
Inks of all kinds, N.O.E.	Spars.
Iron, Gas, Water, and Drain Pipes.	Staves and Hoops.

„ Gates and Hurdles. Strawboard.

„ Wire Netting. Sulphur.

„ and Steel Fencing Wire, Standards, Tanning Materials— Sumach, Myra-

and Staples. bollams, Valonia.

„ Sulphate. Tar.

Jute Piece Goods. Telegraph and Telephone Material, in-

Leather, all other kinds, N.O.E. cluding Instruments.

Lithographic Machinery, Presses, and Timber (in balks, rough or hewn), D.O.E.

Materials, including Stones. Timber in short lengths for case-

Machinery and parts of, D.O.E. making.

Marble, Stone, and Slate (in the rough).	Tin (block, plate, and foil).
Metals, N.O.E.	Tools, and parts thereof.
Millboard.	Typewriters.
Millstones.	Weighing Machines and Scales.
Music.	Wire Cloth for Quartz Crushing.
Nails, Screws, Tacks, and Bolts.	Zinc (sheet and plain).
Oakum.

THIRD SCHEDULE

On the undermentioned Goods, -Wares, Articles, Merchandise, or things imported into the Colony, a Duty of 10 per cent., according to the value of the same :—

Air Beds and Cushions.	Brooms and Brushes.
Apparel and Slops.	Calicoes in the piece, /In
Asphalt.	Cardboard (unprinted) in the flat.
Barometers.	Carpeting, Mats, Matting, Floor Cloths,

Blankets, Rugs, and Shawls. and Verandah Chicks.

Boots, Shoes and Slippers—Children's.	Clocks and Watches.
Boot and Shoe Vamps, Uppers, and	Clothing, Piece Goods for, N.O.E.

Laces. Cotton Piece Goods, N.O.E.

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TRIED SensouLE—continned

Counterpanes and Quilts.	Meters (Gas and Water).
Cricket and other Outdoor Games, Materials for.	Muslins of all kinds, in the piece.
Oars.
Dentists' Materials.	Oil Baize, in the piece.
Enamelled Ware of all kinds, X.O.E.	Opera, Field, Marine Glasses, and Tele-

Explosives of all kinds, N.O.E. scopes.

Filters.

Paints, Colours, and Varnish, N.O.E.

Firearms, and parts of and accessories,

Perambulators.

Photographic Apparatus and Material.

Fruit, fresh.

Poultry and other birds.

Garden Rollers.

Shirts, Collars, and Cuffs.

Glass in sheets.

Spectacles and Eyeglasses.

Hats and Caps (for men).

Tallow.

Ice Cream Machines and Coolers.

Textile Piece Goods not containing Silk,

Instruments, Surgical, Optical, and Scientific, Ir.o.n. and N.O.E. .

Thermometers.

Iron Tanks, Grates, Stoves, and Ovens.	Timber of all kinds (unworked).
Lamps and Lampware.	Vegetables (preserved).
Lead (red and white).	Waterproof Material, in the piece.
Mouldings, Gilt.	Wheels for Carriages.

FOURTH SCHEDULE

On tire undermentioned Goods, TVares, Articles, Merchandise, or things

imported into the Colony, and on all others so imported and not

included in the First, Second, Third, Fifth, or Sixth Schedules, a

Duty of 15 per cent., according to the value of the same :—

Acids of all kinds, X.O.E.	Furs.
Apothecaries' Wares, x.o.r.	Galvanised Ironware of all kinds, N.O.E.
Artists' Materials.	Glassware, N.O.E.
Bags (paper).	Gloves.
Baskets.	Gum of all kinds, N.O.E.
Bicycles, Tricycles, and parts thereof.	Haberdashery, x.o.r.
Boots, all other, including Shoes, Slippers, and Goloshes, N.O.E.	Handbills (printed and engraved).
Harness and Saddlery, Lox.
Books, Account, and Diaries.	Hardware, no.e.
Books of printed forms, including re- ports or methods of business.	Holloware, N.O.E.
Hosiery.
Boxes (Paper and Cardboard) whether made up or not.	Ironmongery, N.O.E.
Iron Safes.
Brassware, N.O.E.	Lace Goods, X.O.E.
Castor Oil (refined).	Leather, Hip, whole and split, bridle,

Castings of all kinds, not being parts of Machinery.	stirrup, bag and basil, rim skirt and
sear.

Cigarette Papers. Leather, Sole and Harness.

Copperware of all kinds, ;cox. Manufactured Goods, N.O.E.

Cutlery, N.O.E.	Mantles.
Drapery, N.O.E.	Matches and Vestas.
Dresses and Skirts, made up.	Meat, Extract of.
Drugs and Druggists' Sundries, N.o.r.	Medicines (Patent) of all kinds, N.o.n.
Earthen, Stone, and Chinaware, N.O.E.	Millinery.
Feathers.	Musical Instruments of all kinds, N.O.E.
Fashion Plates, printed and engraved.	Oilmen's Stores, N.O.E.
Flags.	Paper (wall).
Fruit, preserved and in syrup.	Platedware, N.O.E.

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Forum SCHEDULE—COntinUCa

Posters (printed and engraved).	Spice, Horse and Cattle.
Potted Hams, Chicken, Tongues, or	Starch.

other Meats, and Fish in Paste. Stationery, N.O.E.

Printed, lithographed, or otherwise me- Tobacco Pipes.

chanically produced Forms, Circulars,	Tobacconists' Ware.
and Prospectuses.	Umbrellas and Parasols.

Seltzogenes.	Wickerware.
Silks, Satins, Velvets, Plush, in piece.	Woodenware.

FIFTH SCHEDULE

On the undermentioned Goods, Wares, Articles, Merchandise, or things imported into the Colony, a Duty of 20 per cent., according to the value of the same :—

Aerated and Mineral Waters.	Limejuice.
Architraves, Mouldings, Skirting Boards,	Mantelpieces.

Laths, and Palings. Marble, Stone, and Slate (worked).

Bay Rum.	Oleographs.
Billiard Tables and Accessories.	Paintings, Engravings, Prints, and

Bird Cages. Statuary.

Boards (planed, tongued, and grooved).	Papier Mache Ware.
Boats.	Perfumes and Pomades.
Bricks.	Photographs.
Carriages, Carts, and Waggons.	Picture Frames and Backs
Cordials (not spirituous).	Playing Cards of all kinds.
Cornices and Ceiling Roses.	Plate (Silver and Gold).
Dashboards (leather covered).	Precious Stones.
Dog Collars.	Saccharine.
Doors, Sashes, and Frames.	Saddles (riding).
Eucalyptus Oil.	Saddle Flaps.
Fancy Goods and Toys, nod:.	Sails.
Fireworks.	Sandalwood Oil.
Fishing Materials (fancy).	Silver Goods, no.n.
Furniture—Household and Cabinet.	Soap (Fancy, Perfumed, and Toilet).
ware, N.o.n. Ginger, Hop, and Spruce Beer.	Soap, Powder and Extract.
Stereoscopes.
Gold and Silver Leaf.	Tarpaulins.
Graphoscopes.	Timber (worked).
Hair (Fancy and Wigs).	Tinware of all kinds, N.O.E.
Hammocks.	Transfers.
Handtrueks and parts.	Turnery.
Indiarubber Stamps. -	Veneer.
Ivory Goods, N.O.E.	Vinegar (raspberry).
Japanned Ware of all kinds, N.O.E.	Wheels for Carts and Waggons.
Jewellery of all kinds, nod:.	Wheelbarrows.

SIXTH SCHEDULE

Goods Free of Duty

Bells for Places of Worship.	Disinfectants.
Books (printed of all kinds), N.O.E.	Fire Engines.
Bulbs.	Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Scions

Coal and Coke and Patent Fuel. and Grafts.

Copybooks and Slates for Schools. Garden Seeds.

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SIXTH SCHEDULE-COW/MUCCI

Glass (coloured) for Church Windows. Outside Packages in which goods are

Immigrants' Baggage and Effects (in- cluding only wearing apparel and	ordinarily imported, and which are of
no commercial value, except as cover-

other personal effects that have been ing for goods.

worn or are in use by persons arriv-	Plants.
ing in the Colony) ; also implements,
instruments, and tools of trade, oc-	Printing Paper for Newspapers and

cupation, or employments of such Posters.

persons, and household effects not Rails, Fastenings, and Rolling Stock

exceeding £50 in value, used abroad for Railways and Tramways.

for more than a year by persons or	Sheathing (copper, metal, and felt)
families bringing them to the Colony,	Specie, Bullion, and Coin.
and not intended for any other person	Stearine.
or persons, or for sale.

Iron and Steel (bar, rod, pig, plate, hoop, and sheet). Stones and Slates imported by Munici-

palities for flagging and paving.

Manures of all kinds. Uniforms and Appointments for Defence

Musical Instruments for Churches and for Bands of Defence Forces. Forces.

Vine Cuttings.