{"id":"C1952A00086","name":"Customs Tariff Validation Act 1952","slug":"customs-tariff-validation-act-1952","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"86 of 1952","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":4631,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1952A00086-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Customs Tariff Validation Act 1952","content":"CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION.\n\nNo. 86 1952.\n\nAn Act to provide for the Validation of Collections of Duties of Customs under Customs Tariff Proposals.\n\n\\[Assented to 6th November, 1952.\\]\n\nBE it enacted by the Queen’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 1952.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\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 twenty-fifth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-two) pursuant to Customs Tariff Proposals No. 5 introduced into the House of Representatives on the twenty-ninth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, 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":1404},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains tightly focused on its original purpose of validating specific customs duty collections from mid-1952. There is no expansion beyond the original validation intent."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative sections","No defined terms requiring interpretation","Single straightforward validation provision with clear date parameters","No cross-references to complex regulatory schemes"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act retrospectively validates customs duties the Australian government collected under temporary \"Customs Tariff Proposals No. 5\" between May and 25 September 1952, treating them as lawfully imposed. It affects importers from that period by removing grounds to claim refunds over technical questions about how those tariffs were introduced."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1952","history":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1952/history","analysis":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1952/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1952/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1952/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1952/documents"}}