Customs Administration (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986 (Cth)

Customs Administration (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986

No. 10 of 1986

An Act to enact certain transitional provisions and make certain amendments in consequence of the enactment of the Customs Administration Act 1985, and for related purposes

[Assented to 13 May 1986]

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

Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Customs Administration (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986.

Commencement 2. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent. (2) The amendments made by this Act to sub-section 10 (5) of the Bounty (Electric Motors) Act 1984, paragraph 7 (4) (a) of the Bounty (High Alloy Steel Products) Act 1983, paragraph 7 (4) (a) of the Bounty

(Injection-moulding Equipment) Act 1979, sub-section 6 (5) of the Bounty (Two-Stroke Engines) Act 1984 and sub-sections 267 (2) and (3) of the Customs Act 1901 shall be deemed to have come into operation immediately after the commencement of the Customs Administration (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1985.

Amendments 3. The Acts specified in the Schedule are amended as set out in the Schedule.

Transitional 4. (1) Where— (a) a Minister, or a delegate of a Minister, made an appointment, gave an authorisation or direction, granted a permission, approval or exemption, made a determination, declaration, order, requirement or by-law, gave or published a notice or signed or issued any other instrument before the commencement of this section under a power conferred on that Minister by a provision of an Act; (b) that provision is amended by this Act with effect from that commencement so as to confer that power on the Comptroller-General of Customs; and (c) that appointment, authorisation, direction, permission, approval, exemption, determination, declaration, order, requirement, by-law, notice or other instrument was in force immediately before that commencement, the appointment, authorisation, direction, permission, approval, exemption, determination, declaration, order, requirement, by-law, notice or other instrument continues in force after that commencement as if it had been duly made, given, granted, published, signed or issued, as the case may be, by the Comptroller-General of Customs under that provision as so amended. (2) Where— (a) a Minister, or a delegate of a Minister, did, or refused to do, before the commencement of this section any act or thing not mentioned in sub-section (1) under a power conferred on that Minister by a provision of an Act; and (b) that provision is amended by this Act with effect from that commencement so as to confer that power on the Comptroller-General of Customs, the Act in which that provision was included, as that Act has effect as amended by this Act, applies as if the Comptroller-General had duly done, or refused to do, as the case may be, that act or thing. (3) Where the Comptroller-General of Customs, or a delegate of the Comptroller-General of Customs, published a notice in the Gazette before the commencement of this section under the power conferred on the