CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 226 Time for commencing action

CUSTOMS ACT 1901 - SECT 226

  (1)   No proceeding whether against an officer or otherwise for anything done for the protection of the revenue in relation to any Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration proposed in the Parliament shall except as mentioned in the next section be commenced before the close of the session in which such Tariff or Tariff alteration is proposed or before the expiration of 12 months after such Tariff or Tariff alteration is proposed, whichever first happens.

  (2)   No proceeding, whether against an officer or otherwise, for anything done for the protection of the revenue in relation to a Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration that is intended to be proposed in accordance with an instrument made under section   273EA shall, except as provided in the next succeeding section, be commenced before:

  (a)   the seventh sitting day of the House of Representatives after the date of registration of the instrument under the Legislation Act 2003 , or the day on which the period of 6 months from the date of registration of the instrument under the Legislation Act 2003 expires, whichever is the earlier day; or

  (b)   where, on or before the earlier of the days referred to in the last preceding paragraph, a Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration that would validate the thing so done is proposed in the Parliament--the close of the session in which the Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration is so proposed, or the expiration of 12 months after the Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration is so proposed, whichever first happens.