Commonwealth act

Customs Tariff Validation Act 1937

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.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

31 of 1937

Collection

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Plain English Summary

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This Act retrospectively validates customs duties imposed under the government’s June and September 1937 proposals, treating collections up to 28 February 1938 as lawfully taken.

It protects importers and the Commonwealth by preventing legal challenges or refund claims arising from duties collected before the formal legislation was enacted.

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Customs Tariff Validation Act 1937

CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION.

No. 31 of 1937.

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

[Assented to 16th September, 1937.]

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 1937.

Validation of collections under Tariff proposals.

All duties of Customs demanded or collected (whether before the dissolution or expiry of the present House of Representatives or at or after that dissolution or expiry and on or before the twenty-eighth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight) pursuant to the Customs Tariff proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the twenty-fourth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, and on the seventh day of September, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven, shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.

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