Customs Act 1901
Customs Tariff Act 1995
PART II OF SCHEDULE 4
BY-LAW No. 9940001
I,LYNDALL MARIA MILWARD-BASON, delegate of the Chief Executive Officer
for the purposes of section 271 of the Customs Act 1901, hereby make
the by-law set out in the Schedule below.
Unless the context otherwise requires, where a description of goods
is specified in the by-law set out in the Schedule, the goods to which
that by-law applies by virtue of that description are such goods to
which that description would apply if it were specified in Schedule 3
to the Customs Tariff Act 1995.
Unless the context otherwise requires, any word or phrase used in a
reference in the by-law set out in the Schedule has the same meaning
as if it were used in the tariff classification in Schedule 3 to the
Customs Tariff Act 1995 that applies to those goods to which that
reference applies.
THE SCHEDULE
BY-LAW NO. 9940001
Item 30
Part II of Schedule 4
1. This by-law may be cited as Customs By-law No. 9940001.
2. This by-law shall take effect on and from 1 April 1999.
3. Item 30 in Part II of Schedule 4 to the Customs Tariff Act
1995 applies to robots as defined in subparagraph 2.6 of
International Standard ISO 8373:1994(E/F) (Manipulating
Industrial Robots), being "automatically controlled,
reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator(s), programmable in
three or more axes which may be either fixed in place or
mobile for use in industrial automation applications".
4. For the purposes of this by-law, "reprogrammable" is defined in
subparagraph 2.4 of International Standard ISO 8373:1994(E/F),
and means "whose programmed motions or auxiliary functions
may be changed without physical alteration".
5. For the purposes of this by-law, "multipurpose" is defined in
subparagraph 2.5 of International Standard ISO 8373:1994(E/F),
and means "capable of being adapted to a different application
with physical alteration".
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6. For the purposes of this by-law, "manipulator" is defined in
subparagraph 2.1 of International Standard ISO 8373:1994(E/F),
and means "machine, the mechanism of which usually consists of
a series of segments jointed or sliding relative to one
another, for the purpose of grasping and/or moving objects
(pieces or tools) usually in several degrees of freedom".
7. For the purposes of this by-law, "axis" is defined in
subparagraph 4.3 of International Standard ISO 8373:1994(E/F),
and means "direction used to specify the robot motion in a
linear or rotary mode".
8. For the purposes of this by-law, the "Customs Tariff Act 1995"
means the Customs Tariff Act 1995, as amended or proposed to be
altered.
Dated this eighteenth day of March 1999.
LYNDALL MARIA MILWARD-BASON
Delegate of the Chief Executive Officer