Customs Amendment Act (No. 3) 1979

No. 177 of 1979

An Act to amend section 133 of the Customs Act 1901.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Customs Amendment Act (No. 3) 1979.

(2) The Customs Act 1901 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 November 1979.

Export duties

3. Section 133 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (3) “section 7” and substituting “section 6 or 7”;

(b) by adding at the end of sub-section (3) “, and for review of decisions of the Minister for Trade and Resources made for the purposes of section 8 of that Act”; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

“(4) In sub-section (3), ‘decision’ has the same meaning as in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975.”.