CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION.

No. 94 of 1963.

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

[Assented to 31st October, 1963.]

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 1963.

Commencement.

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

Validation of collections under Customs Tariff Proposals.

3.  All duties of Customs demanded or collected (whether before or after the commencement of this Act and on or before the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four) pursuant to—

(a) any Customs Tariff Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the fourteenth, fifteenth, twenty-second or twenty-ninth day of August, the nineteenth or twenty-fifth day of September or the seventeenth or thirtieth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three;

(b) Customs Tariff (Canada Preference) Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the twenty-fifth day of September, or the thirtieth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three; or

(c) Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the seventeenth or thirtieth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three,

shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.