Commonwealth act

Customs Tariff Validation Act 1959

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.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

96 of 1959

Collection

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This Act retrospectively validates customs duties charged under three specific sets of temporary tariff proposals introduced in November 1959, provided those duties were collected on or before 30 June 1960. It protects importers who paid those duties and secures the Government’s revenue by removing legal uncertainty over those collections.

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Customs Tariff Validation Act 1959

CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION.

No. 96 of 1959.

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

[Assented to 4th December, 1959.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’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 1959.

Commencement.

This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Validation of collections under Customs Tariff Proposals.

All duties of Customs demanded or collected, (whether before or after the commencement of this Act and on or before the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixty) pursuant to—

(a) Customs Tariff (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Preference) Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the nineteenth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine;

(b) any Customs Tariff Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the twenty-fifth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine; or

(c) Customs Tariff (New Zealand Preference) Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the twenty-fifth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine,

shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.

Source text

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

1 Customs Tariff Validation Act 1959