{"id":"F2006L01195","name":"Import Processing Charges Regulations 2006","slug":"import-processing-charges-regulations-2006","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"82 of 2006","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":436418,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2006L01195-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Import Processing Charges Regulations 2006","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nImport Processing Charges Regulations 20061\n\nSelect Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 82\n\nI, PROFESSOR MARIE BASHIR, AC, CVO, Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Import Processing Charges Act 2001.\n\nDated 26 April 2006\n\nMARIE BASHIR\n\nAdministrator\n\nBy Her Excellency’s Command\n\nCHRISTOPHER MARTIN ELLISON\n\nMinister for Justice and Customs\n\nContents\n\n 1 Name of Regulations\n\n 2 Commencement\n\n 3 Definitions\n\n 4 Import processing charges\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n  \n\n1 Name of Regulations\n\n  These Regulations are the Import Processing Charges Regulations 2006.\n\n2 Commencement\n\n  These Regulations commence on 10 May 2006.\n\n3 Definitions\n\n  In these Regulations:\n\nAct means the Import Processing Charges Act 2001.\n\n4 Import processing charges\n\n  For a provision of the Act specified in an item of the table, the prescribed amount of import declaration processing charge or warehouse declaration processing charge is the amount specified in the item.\n\n\n\n- Item Provision of the Act Amount of charge\n- Import declaration processing charge\n- 1 paragraph 5 (3) (a) $40.20\n- 2 paragraph 5 (3) (c) $40.20\n- 3 paragraph 5 (3) (e) $50\n- Warehouse declaration processing charge\n- 4 paragraph 5 (6) (a) $40.20\n- 5 paragraph 5 (6) (c) $40.20\n- 6 paragraph 5 (6) (e) $50\n\nNote\n\n1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See www.frli.gov.au.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2858},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations maintain their original narrow scope of prescribing specific dollar amounts for import and warehouse declaration processing charges as authorized by the Import Processing Charges Act 2001. No expansion beyond this core fee-setting function is evident."},"complexity_factors":["Only 4 regulations with minimal text (less than one page)","Single operative provision (Regulation 4) consisting of a simple fee table","Only one defined term ('Act') in the interpretation section","No conditional logic, exceptions, or complex cross-references beyond basic pointers to the parent Act"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations set Australia’s fixed fees for lodging customs declarations when importing goods or storing them in licensed warehouses: a standard declaration fee of $40.20 and a higher $50 fee for manual or exceptional lodgements. They apply to importers, customs brokers and warehouse operators and serve as the Commonwealth’s cost-recovery under the Import Processing Charges Act 2001."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/import-processing-charges-regulations-2006","history":"/api/acts/import-processing-charges-regulations-2006/history","analysis":"/api/acts/import-processing-charges-regulations-2006/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/import-processing-charges-regulations-2006/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/import-processing-charges-regulations-2006/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/import-processing-charges-regulations-2006/documents"}}