1Customs Tariff Validation Act 1987

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Customs Tariff Validation Act 1987

No. 55 of 1987

An Act to provide for the validation of certain collections of duties of Customs

[Assented to 5 June 1987]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and 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 Validation Act 1987.

Commencement

2. This Act shall commence on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Validation of collections pursuant to Customs Tariff Proposals

3. All duties of Customs demanded or collected (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) on or before 31 December 1987 pursuant to Customs Tariff Proposals, including Customs Tariff (Coal Export Duty) Proposals, introduced into the House of Representatives on the following days shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected:

7 May 1987

29 May 1987.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 29 May 1987

Senate on 1 June 1987]