Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

IMPORT PROCESSING CHARGES (AMENDMENT AND REPEAL) ACT 2002 - SECT 5

             (1)  This section applies if:

                     (a)  Schedule 4 to the Repeal Act commences under subsection 2(6) of that Act; and

                     (b)  at that time, not all of the items in Parts 2 and 6 of Schedule 3 to the Repeal Act have commenced.

             (2)  Despite the repeal of the Charges Act, the Charges Act continues to apply, as if the repeal had not happened, in the following way:

                     (a)  cargo report processing charge continues to be imposed in respect of a documentary report that is, or is a part of, a cargo report made under the unamended Customs Act before the turn‑off time;

                     (b)  screening charge continues to be imposed in respect of a documentary or electronic report that is, or is a part of, a cargo report, made under the unamended Customs Act;

                     (c)  entry processing charge continues to be imposed in respect of an import entry made under the unamended Customs Act.

             (3)  With effect from the turn‑off time, the continued imposition of entry processing charge is modified in the following way:

                     (a)  paragraph 6(2)(a) is taken to include a reference to a type D entry;

                     (b)  paragraph 6(2)(b) is taken to include a reference to a type E entry and a type F entry;

                     (c)  paragraphs 6(2)(c) and (d) are taken to be omitted;

                     (d)  paragraph 6(3)(a) is taken to include a reference to a type D entry, a type E entry and a type F entry;

                     (e)  paragraph 6(3)(b) is taken to be omitted.

             (4)  In this section:

"amended Customs Act" has the same meaning as in the Customs Legislation Amendment (Application of International Trade Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2004 .

"cargo report" has the same meaning as in the Import Processing Charges Act 1997 .

"import entry" has the same meaning as in the Import Processing Charges Act 1997 .

"turn-off time" has the same meaning as in the Customs Legislation Amendment (Application of International Trade Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2004 .

"unamended Customs Act" has the same meaning as in the Customs Legislation Amendment (Application of International Trade Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2004 .