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CUSTOMS TARIFF AMENDMENT BILL (NO. 3) 1999

1998-99

The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES




Presented and read a first time









Customs Tariff Amendment Bill (No. 3) 1999

No. , 1999

(Justice and Customs)



A Bill for an Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995, and for related purposes




ISBN: 0642 426325



Contents
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 3) 1999.

2 Commencement

(1) Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Schedule 1 is taken to have commenced on 22 July 1999.

(3) Schedule 2 is taken to have commenced on 3 September 1999.

(4) Schedule 3 is taken to have commenced on 1 October 1999.

3 Schedule(s)

Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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—Amendment of the Customs Tariff Act 1995 having effect from 22 July 1999


1 After note 2 to Chapter 57 of Schedule 3

Insert:

Additional Note.

1.- For the purposes of this Chapter, the expression “floor coverings” includes all mats, rugs, and similar goods.

Schedule 2—Amendment of the Customs Tariff Act 1995 having effect from 3 September 1999


1 Subheading 9017.20.00 of Schedule 3

Repeal the subheading, substitute:

9017.20

-Other drawing, marking-out or mathematical calculating instruments:

9017.20.10

---Goods, as follows:
(a) disc calculators and the like;
(b) drawing curves;
(c) parallel rules of plastic;
(d) protractors;
(e) set squares;
(f) stencils

5%

9017.20.90

---Other

Free

2 Subheading 9017.80.00 of Schedule 3

Repeal the subheading, substitute:

9017.80

-Other instruments:

9017.80.20

---Goods, as follows:
(a) graduated rules of wood or plastic, other than folding rules;
(b) steel tape measures

5%

9017.80.80

---Other

Free

3 Subheadings 9028.10.00 and 9028.20.00 of Schedule 3

Repeal the subheadings, substitute:

9028.10

-Gas meters:

9028.10.10

---Of the household supply kind

5%

9028.10.90

---Other

Free

9028.20

-Liquid meters:

9028.20.10

---Water meters, as follows:
(a) of the inferential kind;
(b) of the positive kind not exceeding 100 mm diameter in size

5%

9028.20.90

---Other

Free

4 The rates of duty in column 3 of subheading 9028.30.00 of Schedule 3

Repeal the rates, substitute:

5%

5 Subheadings 9031.10.00 and 9031.20.00 of Schedule 3

Repeal the subheadings, substitute:

9031.10

-Machines for balancing mechanical parts:

9031.10.20

---Motor vehicle wheel balancers of the static
kind

5%


9031.10.80

---Other

Free

9031.20

-Test benches:

9031.20.10

---Electrical, for internal combustion engines

5%

9031.20.90

---Other

Free


Schedule 3—Amendment of the Customs Tariff Act 1995 having effect from 1 October 1999


1 The rates of duty in column 3 of subheadings 7210.11.00 and 7210.12.00 of Schedule 3

Repeal the rates of duty, substitute:

Free

2 The rates of duty in column 3 of subheading 7212.10.00 of Schedule 3

Repeal the rates of duty, substitute:

Free

3 After item 65 in Part III of Schedule 4

Insert:

66

Aluminium sheet classified in subheadings 7606.12.00 or 7606.92.00 used in the manufacture of aluminium cans, as prescribed by by-law

Free



 

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