Customs Tariff (Uranium Concentrate Export Duty) Amendment Act 1991

No. 58 of 1991

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (Uranium Concentrate Export Duty) Act 1980, and for related purposes

[Assented to 9 May 1991]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title etc.

1.  (1) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Uranium Concentrate Export Duty) Amendment Act 1991.

(2) In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Customs Tariff (Uranium Concentrate Export Duty) Act 1980¹.

Commencement

2.  This Act is taken to have commenced on 21 February 1990.

Rate of Duty

3.  Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “$1.15” and substituting “$1.30”.

Saving

4. Despite the amendment made by this Act, the Principal Act as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act continues to apply in relation to:

(a)     Alligator Rivers Region uranium concentrate loaded on to a vessel before the commencement of this Act for export from Australia; and

(b)    Alligator Rivers Region uranium concentrate loaded on to a vessel after the commencement of this Act for export from Australia as part of a consignment of Alligator Rivers Region uranium concentrate for export from Australia the loading of which on to that vessel commenced before the commencement of this Act.

NOTE

1. No. 16, 1980, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 39, 1985; No. 57, 1987; No. 24, 1988; and No. 75, 1989.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 13 March 1991

Senate on 15 April 1991]