CUSTOMS TARIFF (NEW ZEALAND PREFERENCE) (No. 3).
No. 60 of 1964.
An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1933-1963, as amended by the Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) (No. 1) 1964.
[Assented to 1st September, 1964.]
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 (New Zealand Preference) (No. 3) 1964.
(2.) The Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1933-1963, as amended by the Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) (No. 1) 1964, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) Section one of the Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) (No. 2) 1964 is amended by omitting sub-section (4.).
(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act and by the Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) (No. 2) 1964, may be cited as the Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1933-1964.
Commencement.
2. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Amendment of Tariff in accordance with First Schedule.
3.—(1.) The Schedule to the Principal Act is amended as set out in the First Schedule to this Act and duties of Customs are imposed in accordance with the Schedule to the Principal Act as so amended.
(2.) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the seventeenth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four.
Amendment of Tariff in accordance with Second Schedule.
4.—(1.) The Schedule to the Principal Act as amended by the last preceding section is further amended as set out in the Second Schedule to this Act and duties of Customs are imposed in accordance with the Schedule to the Principal Act as so amended and as so further amended.
(2.) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-fourth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four.
THE SCHEDULES.
—— Section 3.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
Amendments of the Schedule to the Principal Act.
Consecutive No. | Tariff Item. | Tariff Rates on Goods the Produce or Manufacture of New Zealand. |
86. By omitting the item and inserting in its stead the following item:— | ||
“86 | 232 (a) Varnishes; varnish and oil stains; lacquers; japans; berlin, brunswick and stoving blacks and substitutes therefor; liquid sizes; patent knotting; oil and wood finishes; petrifying liquids; lithographic varnish; printers’ ink reducer; terebine; liquid dryers; gold size; liquid stain for wood | 17½ per cent. |
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| ad val. |
| (b) Damp wall compositions including compositions for waterproofing cement | 17½ per cent. |
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| ad val. |
| (c) Compounded thinners for nitro-cellulose and acetyl-cellulose varnishes and lacquers, n.e.i. | 17½ per cent. |
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| ad val. |
| Ex (e) Synthetic oils and preparations in volatile organic solvents containing synthetic resins, in a form suitable for use in the manufacture of paints, enamels or varnishes— |
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| (4) Containing not less than 50 per cent, by weight of condensates and polycondensates of 2:2-di-(p-hydroxyphenyl) propane, i.e. bisphenol A, and epichlorohydrin— (a) Such condensates or polycondensates being resins which are not in solid form | 10 per cent. |
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| ad val.” |
112. By inserting a new item as follows:— | ||
“112 | Ex 367 (a) Condensation, polycondensation and polyaddition products, whether or not modified or polymerised and whether or not linear, of the epoxy type— |
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| (1) Emulsions, solutions, pastes, powders, granules, flakes, lumps and similar forms, including moulding compounds, not being goods to which Item 232 (e) or Item 255 (b) (1) in the Schedule to the Customs Tariff 1933-1964, or that Act as amended from time to time, or as proposed to be amended from time to time by a Customs Tariff alteration proposed in the Parliament, applies; waste and scrap— |
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| (b) Of condensation and polycondensation products of 2:2-di-(p-hydroxyphenyl) propane, i.e. bisphenol A, and epichlorohydrin, whether or not modified or polymerised— |
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| (1) Being resins which are not in solid form or products in which the resins are not in solid form |
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| 12½ per cent. ad val. or 21d. per lb. less 22½ per cent. ad val., whichever rate returns the higher duty |
First Schedule—continued.
Consecutive No. | Tariff Item. | Tariff Rates on Goods the Produce or Manufacture of New Zealand. |
112.—continued. | ||
“112 | (1)—continued. |
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| (b)—continued. |
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| (2) Other------------------ | 2½ per cent. ad val. or 15d. per lb. less 22½ per cent, ad val., whichever rate returns the higher duty” |
Section 4.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
Amendment of the Schedule to the Principal Act as amended by Section Three of this Act.
Consecutive No. | Tariff Item. | Tariff Rates on Goods the Produce or Manufacture of New Zealand. |
6. By omitting the item and inserting in its stead the following item:— | ||
“6 | 51. Fish, viz.:— |
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| “(b) Fresh, smoked or dried (but not salted), or preserved by cold process— |
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| (1) Smoked or dried (but not salted)----------------- | Free |
| (2) Other— |
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| (a) Shrimps, prawns, shrimp meat and prawn meat-- | 4d. per lb. |
| (b) Other----------------------------- | Free |
| (c) Preserved in tins or other air-tight vessels, including the liquid contents | Free |
| Ex (d) Fish pastes------------------------------------ | Free |
| (e) Oysters, fresh, in the shell--------------------------- | Free |
| (f) N.E.I----------------------------------------- | Free” |