1Customs Tariff (Primage Duties) Validation Act 1931

CUSTOMS TARIFF (PRIMAGE DUTIES) VALIDATION.

No. 55 of 1931.

An Act to provide for the Validation of Collections of Primage Duties of Customs under Customs Tariff Proposals.

[Assented to 26th November, 1931.]

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) Validation Act 1931.

Definition.

2. In this Act “Customs Tariff proposals” means the proposed primage duties of Customs introduced into the House of Representatives on the following dates, namely:—

9th July, 1930;

5th November, 1930 (as varied by Customs Proclamation No. 200, published in the Gazette, No. 38, dated 14th May, 1931);

10th July, 1931 (as varied by Customs Proclamation No. 202, published in the Gazette, No. 65, dated 6th August, 1931, and by Customs Proclamation No. 203, published in the Gazette, No. 75, dated 10th September, 1931); and

14th October, 1931 (as varied by Customs Proclamation No. 205, published in the Gazette, No. 90, dated 2nd November, 1931, and by Customs Proclamation No. 206, published in the Gazette, No. 94, dated 19th November, 1931).

Validation of collections under Tariff proposals.

3. All primage duties of Customs demanded or collected (whether before the dissolution or expiry of the present House of Representatives or at or after such dissolution or expiry and on or before the twenty-ninth day of February One thousand nine hundred and thirty-two) pursuant to the Customs Tariff proposals specified in the last preceding section, shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.