{"id":"C2004A02092","name":"Customs Tariff Validation Act 1979","slug":"customs-tariff-validation-act-1979","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"82 of 1979","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":6986,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A02092-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Customs Tariff Validation Act 1979","content":"Customs Tariff Validation Act 1979\n\nNo. 82 of 1979\n\nAn Act to provide for the validation of certain collections of duties of Customs.\n\nBE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and 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 1979.\n\nCommencement\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nValidation of collections pursuant to Customs Tariff Proposals\n\n3. All duties of Customs demanded or collected (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) on or before 31 December 1979 pursuant to Customs Tariff Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on any of the following dates shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected:\n\n3 May 1979\n\n22 May 1979\n\n5 June 1979.\n\nValidation of collections pursuant to Gazette notices\n\n4. All duties of Customs demanded or collected, before the commencement of this Act, pursuant to notices published in the Gazette in accordance with section 273ea of the Customs Act 1901 on 11 April 1979 shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.\n\n![](image.001.png)","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1748},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act maintains its original narrow purpose of validating specific customs duty collections from April-December 1979. No expansion beyond this technical validation function."},"complexity_factors":["Only 4 operative sections with no subsections","No definitions or interpretation provisions","Single straightforward validation mechanism using 'deemed to be lawfully imposed' language","Minimal external cross-references (only one reference to section 273ea of the Customs Act 1901)","Specific date-based conditions but no nested logic"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act cures a technical defect by validating customs duties collected in 1979 under specific Tariff Proposals and an April Gazette notice, and any duties demanded or collected up to 31 December 1979. \n\nIt reassures importers who paid in good faith and protects public revenue by removing legal uncertainty about those past collections."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1979","history":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1979/history","analysis":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1979/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1979/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1979/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-1979/documents"}}