Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act (No. 1) 2024

No. 22, 2024

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

Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Part 1—Goods covered by space agreement 3

Customs Tariff Act 1995 3

Part 2—Further temporary decrease in duties for goods from Ukraine 4

Customs Tariff Act 1995 4

Part 3—Goods for use in connection with an international sporting event 5

Customs Tariff Act 1995 5

Part 4—Further temporary increase in duties for goods from Russia or Belarus 6

Customs Tariff Act 1995 6

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

[Assented to 8 April 2024]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act is the Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act (No. 1) 2024.
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. 8 April 2024
2. Schedule 1, Part 1 1 December 2022. 1 December 2022
3. Schedule 1, Part 2 4 July 2023. 4 July 2023
4. Schedule 1, Part 3 1 January 2022. 1 January 2022
5. Schedule 1, Part 4 25 October 2023. 25 October 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Customs Tariff Act 1995

 1 Schedule 4 (at the end of the cell at table item 9, column headed “Description of goods”)

Add:

; or (c) covered by the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the European Space Agency for a Co-operative Space Vehicle Tracking Program, done at Capetown on 5 October 2011

 2 Application provision

The amendment made by this Part applies in relation to:

Customs Tariff Act 1995

 a

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

 b

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

 3 Paragraph 18B(1)(b)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

Customs Tariff Act 1995

 b

that are imported into Australia during the period beginning on 4 July 2022 and ending at the end of 3 July 2024;

 4 At the end of Schedule 4

Add:

 5 Application provision

The amendment made by this Part applies in relation to:

Customs Tariff Act 1995

 a

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

 b

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

 6 Paragraph 18A(5)(b)

Omit “24 October 2023”, substitute “24 October 2025”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 30 November 2023

Senate on 8 February 2024]

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