Import Processing Charges Amendment Act 2015

No. 148, 2015

An Act to amend the Import Processing Charges Act 2001, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Import Processing Charges Act 2001 3

An Act to amend the Import Processing Charges Act 2001, and for related purposes

[Assented to 12 November 2015]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Import Processing Charges Amendment Act 2015.
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
Provisions 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. 12 November 2015
2. Schedule 1 1 January 2016. 1 January 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Import Processing Charges Act 2001

 1 Section 5

Repeal the section, substitute:

 5 Amounts of import processing charges

Import declaration processing charge

Warehouse declaration processing charge

 1

The amount of an import declaration processing charge is:

 a

for an electronic import declaration in respect of goods:

 i

if the value of the goods is at least $10,000—$152.00 or such other amount (not exceeding $228.00) as is prescribed; or

 ii

otherwise—$50.00 or such other amount (not exceeding $75.00) as is prescribed; or

 b

for a documentary import declaration in respect of goods:

 i

if the value of the goods is at least $10,000—$192.00 or such other amount (not exceeding $288.00) as is prescribed; or

 ii

otherwise—$90.00 or such other amount (not exceeding $135.00) as is prescribed.

 2

The amount of a warehouse declaration processing charge is:

 a

for an electronic warehouse declaration in respect of goods:

 i

if the value of the goods is at least $10,000—$152.00 or such other amount (not exceeding $228.00) as is prescribed; or

 ii

otherwise—$50.00 or such other amount (not exceeding $75.00) as is prescribed; or

 b

for a documentary warehouse declaration in respect of goods:

 i

if the value of the goods is at least $10,000—$192.00 or such other amount (not exceeding $288.00) as is prescribed; or

 ii

otherwise—$90.00 or such other amount (not exceeding $135.00) as is prescribed.

 2 Application provision

The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to:

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 16 September 2015

Senate on 14 October 2015]

(151/15)

 a

import declarations that are, or are taken to have been, communicated to the Department on or after the commencement of this item; and

 b

warehouse declarations that are, or are taken to have been, communicated to the Department on or after the commencement of this item.