CUSTOMS TARIFF (No. 2).

No. 79 of 1949.

An Act relating to Duties of Customs.

[Assented to 28th October, 1949.]

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 (No. 2) 1949.

(2.) The Customs Tariff 1933–1948, as amended by the Customs Tariff 1949, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) Section one of the Customs Tariff 1949 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).

(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1933–1949.

Definitions.

2. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of “non-self-governing Colony” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“‘British non-self-governing colony’ includes British Protectorates, the Trust Territory of Tanganyika and so much of the Trust Territories of the Cameroons and Togoland as is administered by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom;”.

Application of British Preferential Tariff to certain British countries.

3. Section nine of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “British non-self-governing Colony” and inserting in their stead the words “British country, being a British non-self-governing colony or a part of the King’s dominions which was, on the fifteenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and forty-six, a British non-self-governing colony,”;

(b) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the word “Colony” (second occurring) and inserting in its stead the words “British country”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-section (3.) the words “British non-self-governing Colony” and inserting in their stead the words “British country”.

Amendment of Tariff.

4. 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.

Time of imposition of duties.

5. The time of the imposition of the duties of Customs imposed by this Act is the thirteenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, at nine o’clock in the forenoon, reckoned according to standard time in the Australian Capital Territory, and this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation at that time.

Validation of proclamations.

6.—(1.) Every proclamation issued on or after the twelfth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, and prior to the date on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, declaring that the rates of duty, set out in the column headed “British Preferential Tariff” in the Schedule to the Principal Act shall apply to such goods as are specified in the proclamation as are the produce or manufacture of any British country, being a British non-self-governing colony or a part of the King’s dominions which was, on the fifteenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and forty-six a British non-self-governing colony, specified in the proclamation in relation to those goods shall be deemed to have been lawfully made.

(2.) The power conferred by sub-section (2.) of section nine of the Principal Act as amended by this Act to issue a proclamation revoking or varying a proclamation issued in pursuance of sub-section (1.) of that section shall include a power to revoke or vary the proclamation referred to in the last preceding sub-section.

Section 4. THE SCHEDULE.

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Amendments of the Schedule to the Principal Act.

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IMPORT DUTIES.