CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION.

No. 6 of 1917.

An Act to provide for the Validation of Collections of Duties of Customs under Tariff proposals and for other purposes.

[Assented to 19th March, 1917.]

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. This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Validation Act 1917.

Definition.

2. In this Act “Tariff proposals” means the proposed Duties of Customs introduced into the House of Representatives on the following dates, namely:—

3rd December, 1914.	(Relating to the Tariff on goods other than those imported from and the produce or manufacture of the Union of South Africa);
3rd December, 1914.	(Relating to the Tariff on goods imported from and the produce or manufacture of the Union of South Africa);
12th December, 1914;
9th June, 1915;
12th November, 1915.

Validation of collections under Tariff proposals.

3. All Duties of Customs demanded or collected (whether before or after the dissolution or expiry of the present House of Representatives) pursuant to the Tariff proposals to which this Act applies shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.

Construction of certain items of Tariff proposals.

4. In the construction of the Tariff Proposals the items enumerated hereunder shall be construed as if the words “whether forming part of a complete vehicle or imported separately” had, at the time of the introduction of the Tariff proposals containing those items, been contained in each of those items after the words respectively specified, namely:—

In Item 359 (d) (1), after the word “Alcohol”;

In Item 359 (d) (2), after the word “Alcohol”;

In Item 359 (d) (3), after the word “Mudguards”; and

In Item 359 (d) (4), after the words “(but not including Rubber Tyres)”.