Commonwealth act

Customs Tariff Validation Act 1934

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

23 of 1934

Collection

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Plain English Summary

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This Act retrospectively validates customs duties collected under two temporary “Customs Tariff Proposals” (introduced Nov 1933 and Aug 1934), treating those collections up to 28 February 1935 as lawful despite being taken before the proposals became formal Acts. It protects government revenue and importers from claims for refunds arising from duties briefly collected without the usual completed parliamentary enactment.

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Customs Tariff Validation Act 1934

CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION.

No. 23 of 1934.

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

[Assented to 4th August, 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.

This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Validation Act 1934.

Validation of collections under Tariff proposals.

2 All 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-eighth day of February One thousand nine hundred and thirty-five) pursuant to the Customs Tariff proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the twenty-fourth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, and on the first day of August, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.

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Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

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