Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Customs) Charge) Validation Act 2001

No. 69, 2001

Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Customs) Charge) Validation Act 2001

No. 69, 2001

An Act to validate certain regulations that purported to fix retrospectively the rate of the primary industry (customs) charge on dried vine fruits, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title...................................

2 Commencement...............................

3 Validation of charge.............................

Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Customs) Charge) Validation Act 2001

No. 69, 2001

An Act to validate certain regulations that purported to fix retrospectively the rate of the primary industry (customs) charge on dried vine fruits, and for related purposes

[Assented to 30 June 2001]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Dried Vine Fruits (Rate of Primary Industry (Customs) Charge) Validation Act 2001.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Validation of charge

  Subsection 48(2) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (which, among other matters, invalidates regulations imposing retrospective liabilities on certain persons) is taken not to have applied to Schedule 1 to the Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1) (being Statutory Rules 2000 No. 236).

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 29 March 2001

Senate on 18 June 2001]