CUSTOMS TARIFF (PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA PREFERENCE).

No. 25 of 1959.

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (Papua and New Guinea Preference) 1936-1958.

[Assented to 29th April, 1959.]

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 (Papua and New Guinea Preference) 1959.

(2.) The Customs Tariff (Papua and New Guinea Preference) 1936-1958, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Papua and New Guinea Preference) 1936-1959.

Amendment of Tariff.

2. The Schedule to the Customs Tariff (Papua and New Guinea Preference) 1936-1958 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. The time of the imposition of the duties of Customs imposed by this Act is the twentieth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-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.

THE SCHEDULE. Section 2.

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Amendments of the Schedule to the Customs Tariff (Papua and New Guinea Preference) 1936-1958.

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IMPORT DUTIES.

Item No.	Item No. of Customs Tariff 1933-1959.	Item.	Rate of Duty.

22. By omitting the following:—
		“paragraph (1) of sub-item (n)”
and inserting in its stead the following:—
		“sub-item (n)”.

* Act No. 84, 1936 as amended by No. 80, 1950; No. 63, 1956; No. 64, 1957; and No. 40, 1958.

Import Duties—continued.

Item No.	Item No. of Customs Tariff 1933-1959.		Item.	Rate of Duty.
23. By omitting the item and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“23	330	Rubber including latex,, natural, to which sub-item (a) of item 330 in the Schedule to the Customs Tariff 1933-1959, or that Act as amended from time to time, or as proposed to be amended from time to time by a Customs Tariff alteration proposed in the Parliament, applies; reclaimed rubber; waste rubber		Free”
24. By omitting, the item.
25. By omitting the item.