CUSTOMS TARIFF (PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA PREFERENCE).

No. 20 of 1964.

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (Papua and New Guinea Preference) 1936–1959.

[Assented to 15th May, 1964.]

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) 1964.

(2.) The Customs Tariff (Papua and New Guinea Preference) 1936–1959 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Papua and New Guinea Preference) 1936–1964.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the thirteenth day of January, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four.

Amendment of Tariff in accordance with Schedule.

3. 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 Schedule to the Principal Act as so amended.

THE SCHEDULE. Section 3.

Amendment of the Schedule to the Principal Act.

Item No.	Item No. of Customs Tariff 1933–1964.	Item.	Rate of Duty.
22. By omitting the item and inserting in its stead the following item:—
“22	291	Timber and timber products to which—
	292	(a) sub-item (g), sub-item (h), sub-item (i), sub-item (J), sub-item (k), paragraph (3) of sub-item (l) or sub-item (n) of Item 291;
	293
		(b) sub-item (g) of Item 292; or
		(c) sub-item (b) of Item 293, in the Schedule to the Customs Tariff 1933–1964, 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	Free”