CUSTOMS TARIFF (PRIMAGE DUTIES).
No. 21 of 1958.
An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (Primage Duties) 1934–1950, and for purposes connected therewith.
[Assented to 21st May, 1958.]
[Date of commencement, 18th June, 1958.]
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 (Primage Duties) 1958.
(2.) The Customs Tariff (Primage Duties) 1934–1950 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 (Primage Duties) 1934–1958.
2. After section five of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—
Orders by the Minister.
“6.—(1.) In this section, ‘order’ means an order made by the Minister for the purposes of the Schedule.
“(2.) Orders shall not be deemed to be Statutory Rules within the meaning of the Rules Publication Act 1903–1939.
“(3.) The provisions of sections forty-eight and forty-nine of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901–1957 (other than paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-section (1.), and sub-section (2.), of that first-mentioned section) apply, by force of this section, to an order in like manner as those provisions apply to a regulation.
“(4.) An order takes effect from the date of publication in the Gazette or such later date, if any, as is specified in the order.”.
The Schedule.
3. The Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “Proclamation made by the Governor-General acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council “(wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “order made by the Minister”.
Proclamations under Principal Act.
4. A Proclamation made for the purposes of the Schedule to the Principal Act and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act continues in force as if it were an order made by the Minister for the purposes of the Schedule to the Principal Act as amended by this Act.