CUSTOMS TARIFF (No. 2).
No. 43 of 1960.
An Act relating to Duties of Customs.
[Assented to 5th September, 1960.]
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 (No. 2) 1960.
(2.) The Customs Tariff 1933–1959, as amended by the Customs Tariff 1960, in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) Section one of the Customs Tariff 1960 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).
(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1933–1960.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Temporary duties.
3. After section twelve of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—
“13.—(1.) Where a temporary duty on any goods is provided in the Schedule, the duty shall cease to operate at the expiration of a period of three months from the date upon which the Minister of State for Trade receives the final report of the Tariff Board upon the reference to that Board with respect to those goods that was pending on the date as from which the duty commenced to be collected.
“(2.) For the purposes of this section, a notification in the Gazette by the Minister of State for Trade, under sub-section (7.) of section seventeen a of the Tariff Board Act 1921–1960, of the fact that he has received the final report of the Board upon a particular reference and of the date upon which he received that report is conclusive evidence of the matters so notified.”.