{"id":"C1943A00029","name":"Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Validation Act (No. 2) 1943","slug":"customs-tariff-exchange-adjustment-validation-act-no-2-1943","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"29 of 1943","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":4281,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1943A00029-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Validation Act (No. 2) 1943","content":"CUSTOMS TARIFF (EXCHANGE ADJUSTMENT) VALIDATION (No. 2).\n\nNo. 29 of 1943.\n\nAn Act to Provide for the Validation of Adjustments in Duties of Customs under Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Proposals.\n\n\\[Assented to 3rd July, 1943.\\]\n\nBE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—\n\nShort title.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Validation Act (No. 2) 1943.\n\n  \n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nValidation of alterations in variations of duty.\n\n3. Any alteration in the variations of duties of Customs provided for by the Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Act 1933–1939 made (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) in accordance with the Customs Tariff (Exchange Adjustment) Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the fifth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and forty-two, shall be deemed to have been lawfully made and all duties of Customs demanded or collected in accordance with those variations as so altered shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2559},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains tightly focused on its stated purpose of validating specific 1942 customs duty adjustments. It does not expand beyond the validation of alterations made under the March 1942 Proposals."},"complexity_factors":["Only three sections total","No interpretation section or defined terms","Single operative provision with straightforward deeming language","Narrow temporal scope limited to specific 1942 proposals","No exceptions, conditions, or nested logic"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act retroactively validates the 1942 changes to customs duties that adjusted import taxes according to exchange rates, treating those duties as lawfully imposed and collected. It removes the legal risk of refunds and confirms the Commonwealth’s revenue.\n\nIt primarily affects businesses that imported goods in the relevant period and applies to adjustments made under the earlier 1933–1939 exchange‑adjustment tariff legislation."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-exchange-adjustment-validation-act-no-2-1943","history":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-exchange-adjustment-validation-act-no-2-1943/history","analysis":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-exchange-adjustment-validation-act-no-2-1943/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-exchange-adjustment-validation-act-no-2-1943/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-exchange-adjustment-validation-act-no-2-1943/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-exchange-adjustment-validation-act-no-2-1943/documents"}}