1Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1933

CUSTOMS TARIFF (NEW ZEALAND PREFERENCE).

No. 26 of 1933.

An Act relating to Preferential Duties of Customs on Goods the Produce or Manufacture of the Dominion of New Zealand and for other purposes.

[Assented to 24th November, 1933.]

BE it enacted by the King’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 (New Zealand Preference) 1933.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall commence on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.

Repeal.

3. The following Acts are repealed as from the time and date fixed by the Proclamation issued under section five of this Act as being the time and date from and after which duties of Customs shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of that section:—

The Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1922;

The Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1922 (No. 2);

The Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1926; and

The Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) 1928.

Definitions.

4. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—

“Proclamation” means a Proclamation by the Governor-General, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, published in the Gazette; and

“the British Preferential Tariff” means the British Preferential Tariff in force in the Commonwealth of Australia on the date on which any goods in relation to which the expression is used are entered for home consumption.

Rates of duty on Imports from the Dominion of New Zealand.

5.—(1.) From and after a time and date to be fixed by Proclamation, there shall be payable on the importation into Australia of the undermentioned goods (being the produce or manufacture of the Dominion of New Zealand), when—

(i) those goods have been shipped from that Dominion to Australia and have not been transhipped, or

(ii) those goods, having been so shipped have been transhipped, and it is proved to the satisfaction of the Collector of Customs that the intended destination of the goods when originally shipped was Australia,

Duties of Customs as follows:—

(a) On all goods specified in the Schedule to this Act in the column headed “Tariff Item”—duties at the rates indicated in that Schedule in the column headed “Tariff Rates on Goods the Produce or Manufacture of New Zealand”, and

(b) on all goods other than those provided for in the last preceding paragraph—duties at the rates in force under the British Preferential Tariff.