Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2013

No. 65, 2013

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedule(s) 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Customs Tariff Act 1995 3

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995, and for related purposes

[Assented to 26 June 2013]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2013.
2 Commencement 1

Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information Commencement information Commencement information
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Provision(s) Commencement Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 26 June 2013
2. Schedule 1 Immediately after the commencement of Schedules 1 and 2 to the Customs Tariff Amendment (Schedule 4) Act 2012. 1 March 2013

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

 2

Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Amendments

Customs Tariff Act 1995

 1 Schedule 4 (paragraph (a) of the cell at table item 20, column headed “Description of goods”)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 2 Schedule 4 (paragraph (a) of the cell at table item 21, column headed “Description of goods”)

Omit “, alteration or industrial processing”, substitute “or alteration”.

 3 Schedule 4 (table item 27, column headed “Description of goods”)

Omit “, whose value is less than the amount prescribed by by-law”.

 4 Schedule 4 (table item 30, column headed “Description of goods”)

Omit “wheelchairs”, substitute “invalid carriages”.

 5 Schedule 4 (table item 35, column headed “Description of goods”)

Omit “tonnes”, substitute “tons”.

 6 Application provision

The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to:

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 20 March 2013

Senate on 16 May 2013]

(41/13)

 a

goods imported into Australia on or after the commencement of this Schedule; and

 b

goods imported into Australia before that commencement, where the time for working out the rate of import duty on the goods had not occurred before that commencement.