Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Act 2012

No. 85, 2012

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995, and for related purposes

[Assented to 28 June 2012]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

This Act may be cited as the Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Act 2012.

(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provision(s)	Commencement	Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table	The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.	28 June 2012
2. Schedule 1, Part 1	Immediately after the commencement of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Act 2011.	1 July 2012
3. Schedule 1, Part 2	Immediately after the commencement of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Act 2011.	1 July 2012

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Rates of duty on 1 July 2012

Customs Tariff Act 1995

1 Schedule 3 (Chapter 27, Additional Note 5)

Repeal the Additional Note, substitute:

5.‑ For the purposes of 2711.21.10, CNG means natural gas compressed for use as fuel for a motor vehicle other than:

(a) a motor vehicle that is designed merely to move goods with a forklift and is for use primarily off public roads; and

(b) a motor vehicle that is of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

2 Schedule 3 (Chapter 27, Additional Note 6)

Omit “and 2711.21.20”.

3 Schedule 3 (Chapter 27, Additional Note 6)

Omit “compressed natural gas”, substitute “CNG”.

4 Schedule 3 (subheading 2711.21.10, the description of goods in column 2)

Repeal the description, substitute:

‑‑‑CNG as defined in Additional Note 5 to this Chapter

5 Schedule 3 (subheading 2711.21.20)

Repeal the subheading.

6 Schedule 5 (table item 97AE)

Repeal the item.

7 Schedule 6 (table item 100AE)

Repeal the item.

8 Schedule 7 (table item 99E)

Repeal the item.

9 Schedule 8 (table item 105E)

Repeal the item.

10 Application

The amendments made by this Part apply in relation to:

(a) goods imported into Australia on or after the commencement of this Part; and

(b) goods imported into Australia before that commencement, where the time for working out the rate of import duty on the goods has not occurred before that commencement.

Part 2—Rates on and after 1 July 2013

Customs Tariff Act 1995

11 Subsection 19A(3)

Repeal the subsection.

12 Subsections 19A(4) and (5)

Omit “(2) or (3)”, substitute “or (2)”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 23 May 2012

Senate on 18 June 2012]

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