Customs Tariff (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1987 (Cth)

Customs Tariff (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1987

No. 76 of 1987

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART I—PRELIMINARY Section 1. Short title 2. Commencement

PART II—AMENDMENTS OF THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901

3. Principal Act 4. Application 5. Interpretation 6. Repeal of sections 151 and 151a, substitution of new section: 151. When goods are produce or manufacture of countries other than Australia 7. Other amendments of Customs Act 8. Transitional

PART III—AMENDMENTS OF OTHER ACTS 9. Amendments of other Acts 10. Saving

SCHEDULE 1

Amendments of the Customs Act 1901

SCHEDULE 2

Amendments of other Acts

Customs Tariff (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1987

No. 76 of 1987

An Act to make certain consequential amendments relating to the Customs Tariff Act 1987, and for related purposes

[Assented to 5 June 1987]

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

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1987.

Commencement 2. This Act commences on the day on which the Customs Tariff Act 1987 commences. PART II—AMENDMENTS OF THE CUSTOMS ACT 1901

Principal Act 3. The Customs Act 19011 is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.

Application 4. Notwithstanding the amendments of the Principal Act made by this Part, the Principal Act as in force immediately before the commencement of this Act continues to apply in relation to the assessment of duty under the Customs Tariff Act 1982 as if those amendments had not been made.

Interpretation 5. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended: (a) by inserting after the definition of "Trafficable quantity" in subsection (1) the following definition: " 'unmanufactured raw products' means natural or primary products that have not been subjected to an industrial process, other than an ordinary process of primary production, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes: (a) animals; (b) bones, hides, skins and other parts of animals obtained by killing, including such hides and skins that have been sun-dried; (c) greasy wool; (d) plants and parts of plants, including raw cotton, bark, fruit, nuts, grain, seeds in their natural state and unwrought logs; (e) minerals in their natural state and ores; and (f) crude petroleum;"; and (b) by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsections: "(3a) A reference in this Act or any other law of the Commonwealth to the tariff classification under which goods are classified is a reference to the heading in Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1987 or such a heading's subheading: (a) in whose third column a rate of duty or the quota sign within the meaning of that Act is set out; and (b) under which the goods are classified for the purposes of that Act. "(3b) For the purposes of this Act and any other law of the Commonwealth: (a) a heading in Schedule 3 to the Customs Tariff Act 1987 may be referred to by the word 'heading' followed by the digits with which the heading begins;