{"id":"C1943A00028","name":"Customs Tariff Validation Act (No. 2) 1943","slug":"customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1943","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"28 of 1943","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":4279,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1943A00028-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Customs Tariff Validation Act (No. 2) 1943","content":"CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION (No. 2).\n\nNo. 28 of 1943.\n\nAn Act to Provide for the Validation of Collections of Duties of Customs under Customs Tariff Proposals.\n\n\\[Assented to 3rd July, 1943.\\]\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 (No. 2) 1943.\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) pursuant to the Customs Tariff Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the fifth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and forty-two, and the second day of September, One thousand nine hundred and forty-two, shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.\n\nImposition of duties of Customs by Proclamation.\n\n4. Where, in respect of any goods covered by any item or portion of an item in the Customs Tariff Proposals referred to in the last preceding section, it is provided that duties of Customs shall be imposed on and after a date to be fixed by Proclamation, all such duties of Customs demanded or collected on or after the date so fixed, 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":1573},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains focused on its original narrow purpose: validating specific customs duty collections from 1942. There is no evidence of scope creep beyond the original technical validation intent."},"complexity_factors":["Very short statute (only 4 operative sections)","Simple retrospective validation with no conditional logic or exceptions","No defined terms or interpretation section","Single purpose legislation with straightforward deeming provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act cures a World War II legal technicality by retroactively validating customs duties collected in March and September 1942 under temporary \"Customs Tariff Proposals\" and any duties awaiting formal proclamation dates. It protects wartime government revenue and bars importers from successfully challenging those 1942 collections or seeking refunds, removing uncertainty about the lawfulness of those tariff changes."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1943","history":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1943/history","analysis":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1943/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1943/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1943/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1943/documents"}}