{"id":"C1948A00024","name":"Customs Tariff Validation Act 1948","slug":"customs-tariff-validation-act-1948","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"24 of 1948","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":4348,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1948A00024-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Customs Tariff Validation Act 1948","content":"CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION.\n\nNo. 24 of 1948.\n\nAn Act to provide for the Validation of Collections of Duties of Customs under Customs Tariff Proposals.\n\n\\[Assented to 24th June, 1948.\\]\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 1948.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\n  \n\nValidation of collections under Customs Tariff Proposals.\n\n3. All duties of Customs demanded or collected (whether before or after the commencement of this Act and on or before the seventeenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight) pursuant to the Customs Tariff Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the second day of June, One thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, 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":1227},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act performs exactly the narrow function described in its title—validating customs duty collections under specific June 1948 tariff proposals. It has not expanded beyond this original purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 short sections total","No definitions or interpretation section","Single operational provision with clear temporal limits","No cross-references to other Acts or complex conditional logic","Plain, unambiguous validation language"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act retroactively validates customs duties charged under temporary tariff proposals introduced to Parliament on 2 June 1948, covering any such duties demanded or collected up to 17 December 1948. \n\nIt protects government revenue by removing legal challenges to those collections and affects importers and businesses who paid under the proposed rates during that period."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1948","history":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1948/history","analysis":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1948/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1948/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1948/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1948/documents"}}