Customs Tariff (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Preference) 1961

CUSTOMS TARIFF (FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND PREFERENCE).

No 53 of 1916.

An act to amend the Customs Tariffs (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Preference) 1960.

[Assented to 24th October, 1961.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’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 (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Preference) 1961.

(2.) The Customs Tariffs (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Preference) 1960 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Preference) 1960-1961.

Commencement.

2. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Application of British Preferential Tariff.

3.—(1.) Section six of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the word and figure “column 1” and inserting in their stead the word and figure “column 2”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) the word and figure “column 2” and inserting in their stead the word and figure “column 3”.

(2.) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twelfth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-one.

Substitution of Schedule.

4.—(1.) The Schedule to the Principal Act is repealed and the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Act inserted in its stead.

(2.) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twelfth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-one.

Amendments of substituted Schedule.

5.—(1.) The Schedule inserted in the Principal Act by the last preceding section is amended—

(a) by omitting the words in column 3 opposite to consecutive number 2 in column 1 and inserting in their stead the words “Fruit juices”; and

(b) by omitting the figures in column 2 opposite to consecutive number 8 in column 1 and inserting in their stead the figures and letter “223 (a)”.

(2.) The amendment referred to in paragraph (a) of the last preceding sub-section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, and the amendment referred to in paragraph (b) of that sub-section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the sixteenth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-one.

THE SCHEDULE. Section 4.

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Schedule to be Substituted for the Schedule to the Principal Act.

the schedule. Section 6.