{"id":"C1919A00017","name":"Customs Tariff Validation Act 1919","slug":"customs-tariff-validation-act-1919","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"17 of 1919","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":12600,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1919A00017-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-31","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Customs Tariff Validation Act 1919","content":"CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION.\n\nNo. 17 of 1919.\n\nAn Act to provide for the Validation of Collections of Duties of Customs under Tariff Proposals.\n\n\\[Assented to 28th October, 1919.\\]\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 Validation Act 1919.\n\nDefinition.\n\n2. In this Act “Tariff proposals” means the proposed Duties of Customs introduced into the House of Representatives on the following dates, namely:—\n\n| 10th August, 1917;    |                                                                                                              |\n| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |\n| 26th September, 1917; |                                                                                                              |\n| 25th September, 1918; |                                                                                                              |\n| 25th September, 1918. | (Relating to the Tariff on goods imported from and the produce or manufacture of the Union of South Africa.) |\n\nValidation of collections under Tariff proposals.\n\n3. All Duties of Customs demanded or collected (whether before or after the termination of the present House of Representatives) pursuant to the Tariff proposals to which this Act applies 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":2106},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains tightly focused on its original purpose of validating specific historical customs collections from 1917-1918. No scope expansion is evident."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative sections with minimal text","Single defined term ('Tariff proposals') referencing specific historical dates","No cross-references to other legislation or complex conditional logic","Simple declarative validation with no exceptions or procedural requirements","Minor complexity from temporal scope covering pre-enactment and post-Parliament dissolution periods"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act retroactively validates customs duties collected by the Commonwealth under temporary tariff proposals in 1917–1919, treating those collections as lawfully imposed even where taken before the validating Act or across a change of Parliament. It preserves government revenue and removes legal risk that importers who paid under those proposals could demand refunds."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1919","history":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1919/history","analysis":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1919/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1919/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1919/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1919/documents"}}