CUSTOMS TARIFF (No. 2).

No. 4 of 1954.

An Act relating to Duties of Customs.

[Assented to 20th April, 1954.]

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.

l.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (No. 2) 1954.

(2.) The Customs Tariff 1933-1953, as amended by the Customs Tariff 1954, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) Section one of the Customs Tariff 1954 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).

(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff 1933-1954.

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 imposed in accordance with the first-mentioned Schedule as amended by the last-mentioned Schedule.

Time of imposition of duties.

3.—(1.) The time of the imposition of the duties of Customs (not being duties of Customs the time of the imposition of which is fixed by the next succeeding sub-section) imposed by this Act is the seventh

day of April, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, 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.

(2.) The time of the imposition of the duties of Customs imposed by this Act and set out in the column headed “Intermediate Tariff” in the Schedule to this Act, upon goods which are specified in, and are the produce or manufacture of a British or foreign country specified in, a Proclamation issued on or after the seventh day of April, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, and prior to the date on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, applying or varying the application of the rates of duty so set out to those goods, is the time and date specified in that Proclamation.

Validation of Proclamations.

4.—(1.) Every Proclamation issued on or after the seventh day of April, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, and prior to the date on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, applying or varying the application of rates of duty set out in the column headed “Intermediate Tariff” in the Schedule to this Act to goods which are specified in, and are the produce or manufacture of a British or foreign country specified in, the Proclamation, and every Proclamation issued during that period revoking or varying any such Proclamation, shall be deemed to have been lawfully made.

(2.) The power conferred by sub-section (3.) of section nine a of the Principal Act to issue a Proclamation revoking or varying a Proclamation issued in pursuance of sub-section (1.) of that section includes a power to revoke or vary a Proclamation referred to in the last preceding sub-section.

THE SCHEDULE. Section 2.

Amendments of the Schedule to the Principal Act.

IMPORT DUTIES.

Tariff Items.	British Preferential Tariff.	Intermediate Tariff.	General Tariff.
DIVISION VI—METALS AND MACHINERY.
179. By omitting the whole of paragraph (1) of sub-item (b) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—
“(1) (a) Outdoor circuit breakers—
(1) For use at voltages exceeding 1,000 but not exceeding 15,000 if the rated breaking capacity is 500 mva or higher; for use at voltages exceeding 15,000 but not exceeding 38,500 if the rated breaking capacity is 1,500 mva or higher; for use at voltages exceeding 38,500 ad val.	Free	12½ per cent.	12½ per cent.

The Schedule—continued.

Tariff Items.	British Preferential Tariff.	Intermediate Tariff.		General Tariff.
Division VI.—Metals and Machinery—continued.
79.—continued.
“(1) (a)—continued.
(2) For use at voltages exceeding 1,000 but not exceeding 15,000 if the rated breaking capacity is lower than 250 MVA ad val.	22½ per cent.		45 per cent.		50 per cent.
(3) For use at voltages exceeding 1,000, other ad val.	22½ per cent.		40 per cent.		50 per cent.
(b) Switch units, circuit breakers other than outdoor circuit breakers—
(1) For use at voltages exceeding 1,000 but not exceeding 2,500 if the rated breaking capacity is 150 MVA or higher; for use at voltages exceeding 2,500 but not exceeding 4,500 if the rated breaking capacity is 250 MVA or higher; for use at voltages exceeding 4,500 but not exceeding 10,000 if the rated breaking capacity is 350 MVA or higher; for use at voltages exceeding 10,000 but not exceeding 15,000 if the rated breaking capacity is 500 MVA or higher; for use at voltages exceeding 15,000 but not exceeding 25,000 if the rated breaking capacity is 350 MVA or higher; for use at voltages exceeding 25,000 ad val.	Free		12½ per cent.		12½ per cent.
(2) For use at voltages exceeding 1,000 but not exceeding 2,500 if the rated breaking capacity is lower than 150 MVA; for use at voltages exceeding 2,500 but not exceeding 15,000 if the rated breaking capacity is lower than 250 MVA ad val.	22½ per cent.		45 per cent.		55 per cent.
(3) For use at voltages exceeding 1,000, other ad val.	27½ per cent.		45 per cent.		55 per cent.”
By omitting from sub-item (b) the words—
“For the purposes of paragraph (1) of this sub-item k.v.a. shall be determined as prescribed by Departmental By-law.”
DIVISION VII.-OILS, PAINTS, AND VARNISHES.
1. By adding to sub-item (E) a new paragraph (3) as follows:—
“(3) Titanium oxide; titanium white per ton	£28		£48		£56”