1Customs Tariff (Canada Preference) 1960

CUSTOMS TARIFF (CANADA PREFERENCE).

No. 54 of 1960.

An Act relating to Preferential Duties of Customs on Goods the Produce or Manufacture of Canada.

[Assented to 19th November, 1960.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Canada Preference) 1960.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation at nine o’clock in the forenoon, reckoned according to standard time in the Australian Capital Territory, on the ninth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and sixty.

Repeal.

3. The Acts specified in the First Schedule to this Act are repealed.

Incorporation.

4. This Act is incorporated and shall be read as one with the Customs Tariff.

Definition.

5. In this Act, “the Customs Tariff” means the Customs Tariff 1933-1960.

Goods to which this Act applies.

6. This Act applies to goods that—

(a) are the produce or manufacture of Canada;

(b) have been shipped from Canada to Australia and, unless the Collector is satisfied that the intended destination of the goods when originally shipped from Canada was Australia, have not been transhipped; and

(c) are entered for home consumption after the commencement of this Act.

Application of British Preferential Tariff to Canadian goods.

7.—(1.) Subject to this Act, the rates of duty set out in the column headed “British Preferential Tariff” in the Schedule to the Customs Tariff apply to goods to which this Act applies.

(2.) An item in the Schedule to the Customs Tariff the number of which is specified in column 1 of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, in relation to goods to which this Act applies, not being goods specified in column 3 of the Second Schedule to this Act opposite to the number of that item, have effect as if the rate or rates of duty set out in that item in the column in that first-mentioned Schedule headed “British Preferential Tariff” were modified in the manner set out in column 2 of the Second Schedule to this Act opposite to the number of that item.

Proclamation affecting application of section 7.

8.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, the Governor-General may, by Proclamation, declare that, after a specified time, the last preceding section shall not apply to goods described in the Proclamation.