Customs Tariff Amendment (2012 Measures No. 1) Act 2012

 

No. 137, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedule(s)

Schedule 1—Amendments

Customs Tariff Act 1995

 

 

Customs Tariff Amendment (2012 Measures No. 1) Act 2012

No. 137, 2012

 

 

 

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

[Assented to 25 September 2012]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Amendment (2012 Measures No. 1) Act 2012.

2  Commencement

 (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.

25  September 2012

2.  Schedule 1, items 1 and 2

1 March 2012.

1 March 2012

3.  Schedule 1, items 3 to 6

The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

26 September 2012

4.  Schedule 1, items 7 and 8

1 January 2012.

1 January 2012

5.  Schedule 1, item 9

The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

26 September 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Note:  This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments

 

Customs Tariff Act 1995

1  Schedule 1 (Division 1 of Part 4, after table item relating to Saudi Arabia)

Insert:

Serbia

RS

2  Application provision—item 1

The amendment made by item 1 applies in relation to:

 (a) goods imported into Australia on or after 1 March 2012; and

 (b) goods imported into Australia before 1 March 2012, where the time for working out the rate of import duty on the goods had not occurred before 1 March 2012.

3  Schedule 3 (Chapter 13, paragraph (ij) of Note 1)

Omit “or;”, substitute “or”.

4  Schedule 3 (heading 4202, the description of goods in column 2)

Omit “BEVERAGE”, substitute “BEVERAGES”.

5  Schedule 3 (subheading 4408.10.12, the description of goods in column 2)

Omit “than,”, substitute “than”.

6  Schedule 3 (Chapter 48, Subheading Note 7)

Omit “4810.22.00”, substitute “4810.22”.

7  Schedule 3 (before subheading 5308.20.00)

Insert:

5308.10.00

Coir yarn

Free

8  Application provision—item 7

The amendment made by item 7 applies in relation to:

 (a) goods imported into Australia on or after 1 January 2012; and

 (b) goods imported into Australia before 1 January 2012, where the time for working out the rate of import duty on the goods had not occurred before 1 January 2012.

9  Schedule 3 (subheading 5601.2, the description of goods in column 2)

Repeal the description, substitute:

 

Wadding of textile materials and articles thereof:

 

 

 

 

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 20 June 2012

Senate on 16 August 2012]

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