CUSTOMS TARIFF (EXCHANGE ADJUSTMENT) (NO. 2).
No. 57 of 1939.
An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Act 1933–1938, as amended by the Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Act 1939.
[Assented to 15th December, 1939.]
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 and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Act (No. 2) 1939.
(2.) Section one of the Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Act 1939 is amended by omitting sub-section (2.).
(3.) The Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Act 1933–1938, as amended by the Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Act 1939, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Act 1933–1939.
Amendment of Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Act.
2. The Schedule to the Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule to this Act.
Further variation of duties.
3.—(1.) All duties of Customs (other than primage duty and duty imposed by the Customs Tariff (Industries Preservation) Act 1921–1936, or any Act amending or in substitution for that Act), as varied in accordance with the Principal Act, are further varied in the manner provided by the Principal Act in respect of the goods specified in the Schedule to the Principal Act, as amended by this Act, or covered by the Customs Tariff Items so specified, as on and after the fifteenth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, at nine o’clock in the forenoon, reckoned according to standard time in the Australian Capital Territory, and this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation at that time.
(2.) Where, by any amendment made by this Act, any further variation in duties of Customs is made as on and after any date later than the fifteenth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, the further variation shall be deemed to have come into operation on and after that later date at nine o’clock in the forenoon reckoned according to standard time in the Australian Capital Territory.
THE SCHEDULE. Sec. 2.
AMENDMENTS OE THE SCHEDULE TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT.
by omitting “58 (c)”.
by omitting “98” and inserting in its stead “98 (a)” and “98 (b)”.
by omitting “105 (f) (1)” and “105 (f) (2)”, up to and including 5th December, 1939.
by inserting as on and after 6th December, 1939, “105 (f) (1)” and “105 (f) (2)”.
by omitting “161 (b) (1)” and “161 (b) (2)”.
by omitting “176 (f)” and inserting in its stead “176 (f) (1)”.
by omitting “176 (i)”.
by adding before “177 (a) (1)” the following:—”176 (p)”.
by omitting “178 (d) (1)”.
by omitting “179 (d) (3) (a)”.
by omitting “219 (a)”.
by omitting “326”.
by omitting “359 (g) (1)” and inserting in its stead “359 (g) (1) (b)”.
by omitting “359 (g) (5)”.
by omitting “390 (a) (1)” and inserting in its stead “390 (a) (1) (a)”.
by omitting “392 (a) (4)”, “392 (a) (5)”, “392 (c)” and “392 (e)”.
by omitting “433”.