Customs Tariff Validation

No. 1 of 1966

An Act to provide for the Validation of Collections of Duties of Customs under Proposed Customs Tariff Alterations.

[Assented to 21 March, 1966]

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.

1. This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Validation Act 1966.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Validation.

3. All duties of Customs demanded or collected for the protection of the revenue in relation to a proposed Customs Tariff alteration in respect of which, in pursuance of section 273ea of the Customs Act 1901–1965, the Minister of State for Customs and Excise published notice in the Gazette on any of the following dates shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected:—

20 December, 1965

23 December, 1965

24 December, 1965

13 January, 1966.