{"id":"C1953A00019","name":"Customs Tariff Validation Act 1953","slug":"customs-tariff-validation-act-1953","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"19 of 1953","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":4743,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1953A00019-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Customs Tariff Validation Act 1953","content":"CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION.\n\nNo. 19 of 1953.\n\nAn Act to provide for the Validation of Collections of Duties of Customs under Customs Tariff Proposals.\n\n\\[Assented to 9th April, 1953.\\]\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 1953.\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 fifth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-three) pursuant to—\n\n(a) Customs Tariff Proposals No. 7 introduced into the House of Representatives on the fifth day of March. One thousand nine hundred and fifty-three; or\n\n(b) the Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1933-1952 as proposed to be affected by Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) Proposals No. 2 introduced into the House of Representatives on the fifth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-three,\n\nshall 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":1681},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains tightly focused on its original purpose: validating customs duty collections under two specific 1953 tariff proposals. No expansion beyond this narrow validation function."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative sections with no defined terms","Simple validation mechanism with clear temporal boundaries","No conditional logic or exceptions","Specific but unambiguous references to parliamentary proposal numbers and historical dates"],"plain_english_summary":"This short Act retroactively validates customs duties collected under two tariff proposals introduced 5 March 1953 (Customs Tariff Proposals No. 7 and Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) Proposals No. 2). It protects the government’s collections and importers who paid those duties between March and 5 December 1953 by removing any legal doubt about their validity."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1953","history":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1953/history","analysis":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1953/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1953/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1953/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1953/documents"}}