CUSTOMS TARIFF (SUGAR).

No. 32 of 1922.

An Act Relating to Duties of Customs.

[Assented to 18th October, 1922.]

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.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Sugar) 1922.

(2.) The Customs Tariff 1921, as amended by the Customs Tariff 1922, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) Sub-section (3.) of section one of the Customs Tariff 1922 is repealed.

(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1921–1922.

Amendment of Tariff.

2. The Schedule to the Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule to this Act, and Duties of Customs are hereby imposed in accordance with the first-mentioned Schedule as amended by the last-mentioned Schedule.

Date from which new duties commence.

3. The duties imposed by the Schedule to this Act shall be deemed to have been imposed as from the twelfth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, at nine o’clock in the forenoon, Victorian time.

THE SCHEDULE.

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Amendments to the Schedule to the Customs Tariff 1921–1922.

Item No.	Tariff Items.	British Preferential Tariff.	Intermediate Tariff.	General Tariff.
28	By omitting the whole of the item and inserting in its stead the following item:—
	“28. Sugar, the produce of Sugar
	cane per ton	£9 6s. 8d.	£9 6s. 8d.	£9 6s. 8d.”
29	By omitting from the item the words
	“per cwt.	6s.	6s.	6s.”
	and inserting in their stead the words
	“per ton	£9 6s. 8d.	£9 6s. 8d.	£9 6s. 8d.”
30	By omitting from the item the words
	“per cwt.	10s.	10s.	10s.”
	and inserting in their stead the words
	“per ton	£14	£14	£14.”
31	By omitting from the item the words
	“per cwt.	3s.	3s.	3s.”
	and inserting in their stead the words
	“per ton	£4 13s. 4d.	£4 13s. 4d	£4 13s.4d.