CUSTOMS TARIFF (FEDERATION OF RHODESIA AND NYASALAND PREFERENCE).

No. 25 of 1960.

An Act relating to Preferential Duties of Customs on certain Goods the Produce or Manufacture of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

[Assented to 26th May, 1960.]

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 (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Preference) 1960.

Commencement.

2.  This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation at nine o’clock in the forenoon, reckoned according to standard time in the Australian Capital Territory, on the twenty-ninth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and sixty.

Repeal.

3.  The Customs Tariff (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Preference) 1956 and the Customs Tariff (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Preference) 1958 are repealed.

Incorporation.

4.  This Act is incorporated and shall be read as one with the Customs Tariff.

Interpretation.

5.—(1.)  In this Act—

“Federation goods” means goods that—

(a) are the produce or manufacture of the Federation;

(b) have been shipped in the Federation for export to Australia; and

(c) are entered for home consumption after the commencement of this Act;

“the Customs Tariff” means the Customs Tariff 1933-1960;

“the Federation” means the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

(2.)  For the purposes of the definition of “Federation goods” in the last preceding sub-section, goods shipped at the port of Lourenco Marques or the port of Beira in Portuguese East Africa for export to Australia shall be deemed to have been shipped in the Federation for export to Australia if there is produced to the Collector a certificate in writing signed by an officer of Customs in the service of the Government of the Federation certifying that the country of origin of the goods is the Federation.

Application of British Preferential Tariff.

6.—(1.)  Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, the rate or rates of duty set out in the column headed “British Preferential Tariff” in the Schedule to the Customs Tariff in relation to an item in that Schedule the number of which is specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Act apply to Federation goods—

(a) that are included in that item; and

(b) where a class of the goods to which the item relates is specified in column 2 of the Schedule to this Act opposite to the number of that item—that are goods of that class.

(2.)  Item nineteen in the Schedule to the Customs Tariff shall, in relation to Federation goods, have effect as if each rate of duty set out in relation to that item in the column headed “British Preferential Tariff” in that Schedule were reduced by Nine pence per pound.

THE SCHEDULE                                                            Section 6.