Customs Amendment (2017 Harmonized System Changes) Act 2016

 

No. 77, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Customs Act 1901, and for related purposes

 

 

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Customs Act 1901

 

 

 

Customs Amendment (2017 Harmonized System Changes) Act 2016

No. 77, 2016

 

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Customs Act 1901, and for related purposes

[Assented to 23 November 2016]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act is the Customs Amendment (2017 Harmonized System Changes) Act 2016.

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

Provisions

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.

23 November 2016

2.  Schedule 1

At the same time as Schedule 1 to the Customs Tariff Amendment (2017 Harmonized System Changes) Act 2016 commences.

1 January 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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  Schedules

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 Act 1901

1  Subparagraph 105B(3)(b)(ii)

Omit “or 11”, substitute “, 11 or 12”.

2  Subsection 105B(4) (paragraph (a) of the definition of biofuel blend)

Omit “3824.90.50, 3824.90.60”, substitute “3824.99.30, 3824.99.40”.

3  Subsection 105B(4) (paragraph (b) of the definition of biofuel blend)

Omit “or 11”, substitute “, 11 or 12”.

 

 

 

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 13 October 2016

Senate on 9 November 2016]

 

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