Commonwealth act

Customs Tariff Validation Act (No. 2) 1941

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.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

42 of 1941

Collection

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Plain English Summary

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This short validation Act retroactively confirms that customs duties collected under three Customs Tariff Proposals introduced to the House of Representatives on 2 July, 25 September and 29 October 1941 were lawfully imposed. It covers collections up to and including 31 March 1942 and any collections after a Proclamation date where a Proposal deferred its start.

It matters to importers, businesses and the government by closing any legal gap and preventing challenges to duties gathered before full parliamentary enactment.

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Customs Tariff Validation Act (No. 2) 1941

CUSTOMS TARIFF VALIDATION (No. 2).

No. 42 of 1941.

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

[Assented to 25th November, 1941.]

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 (No. 2) 1941.

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 thirty-first day of March, One thousand nine hundred and forty-two) pursuant to the Customs Tariff Proposals introduced into the House of Representatives on the second day of July, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one, on the twenty-fifth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one, and on the twenty-ninth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and forty-one, shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.

Imposition of duties of Customs by Proclamation.

Where, in respect of any goods covered by any item or portion of an item in any Customs Tariff Proposal referred to in the last preceding section, it is provided that duties of Customs shall be imposed on and after a date to be fixed by Proclamation, all such duties of Customs demanded or collected on or after the date so fixed and on or before the thirty-first day of March, One thousand nine hundred and forty-two shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.

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