{"id":"C1971A00124","name":"Customs Tariff Validation Act (No. 2) 1971","slug":"customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1971","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"124 of 1971","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":2439,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1971A00124-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-29","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Customs Tariff Validation Act (No. 2) 1971","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\nCustoms Tariff Validation (No. 2)\n\nNo. 124 of 1971\n\nAn Act to provide for the Validation of Collections of Duties of Customs under Customs Tariff Proposals.\n\n[Assented to 13 December 1971]\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 (No. 2) 1971.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\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. but on or before the thirty-first day of May, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two, 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\n17 August, 1971\n\n23 August, 1971\n\n7 September, 1971\n\n16 September, 1971\n\n30 September, 1971\n\n10 November, 1971.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2275},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act remains strictly limited to its original purpose of validating specific customs duty collections. It has not expanded beyond the six tariff proposals specified in section 3."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative sections","Single substantive provision (section 3)","No defined terms or interpretation section","Simple date-based conditional logic with no nested exceptions","No cross-references to other legislation"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act retrospectively validates customs duties charged under six temporary tariff proposals announced in Parliament in 1971, declaring those duties legally effective up to 31 May 1972. It protects the Commonwealth’s revenue and prevents importers from suing to recover duties paid during the gap between parliamentary tariff announcements and the later formal laws."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1971","history":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1971/history","analysis":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1971/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1971/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1971/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/customs-tariff-validation-act-no-2-1971/documents"}}