1Customs Tariff (Primage Duties) 1934

CUSTOMS TARIFF (PRIMAGE DUTIES).

No. 6 of 1934.

An Act relating to Primage Duties of Customs.

[Assented to 14th July, 1934.]

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 (Primage Duties) 1934.

Incorporation.

2. The Customs Act 1901–1930 shall be incorporated and read as one with this Act.

Definitions.

3. In this Act, except where otherwise clearly intended—

“British Preferential Tariff” means the rates of duty set out in the Schedule to the Customs Tariffs 1933 in the column headed “British Preferential Tariff”;

“Item” means Tariff Item as set out in the Schedule to the Customs Tariffs 1933;

“the Schedule” means the Schedule to this Act.

Time of imposition of Primage Duties.

4.—(1.) The time of the imposition of the primage duties imposed by this Act, except in respect of goods in respect of which a later date is specified in the Schedule, is the fifth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, at nine o’clock in the forenoon, reckoned according to standard time in the Territory for the Seat of Government, and this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation at that time.

(2.) The time of the imposition of the primage duties imposed by this Act in respect of goods in respect of which a date later than the fifth clay of October, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-three is specified in the Schedule, is the later date so specified at nine o’clock in the forenoon, reckoned according to standard time in the Territory for the Seat of Government.

Imposition of duties.

5. In addition to the duties of Customs collected in accordance with any other law of the Commonwealth for the time being in force, primage duties are hereby imposed at the rates and on the goods specified in the Schedule (except such goods as are by or under the Schedule exempt from primage duty) as from the respective times specified in section four of this Act, and shall respectively be deemed to have been imposed at those times, and shall be charged, collected and paid to the use of the King for the purposes of the Commonwealth on all goods dutiable under the Schedule which are entered for home consumption after the times when those duties are respectively deemed to have been imposed.

Validation of collections.

6. All duties of Customs demanded or collected pursuant to the proposals for the imposition of primage duties introduced into the House of Representatives on the twenty-fifth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, and on the thirteenth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, as varied from time to time by proclamations made in accordance with those proposals, shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.