Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CUSTOMS TARIFF (ANTI-DUMPING) AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 69 of 1988 - SECT 17

17. (1) Where:

   (a)  the Comptroller-General of Customs or a delegate of the
        Comptroller-General of Customs made a determination, gave or published
        a notice or direction, or signed or issued any other instrument before
        the commencement of this section under a power conferred on the
        Comptroller-General of Customs by section 4, 4A, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 20
        of the Principal Act;

   (b)  that provision of the Principal Act is amended by this Act so as to
        confer that power on the Minister; and

   (c)  that determination, notice, direction or other instrument was in force
        immediately before that commencement; that determination, notice,
        direction or other instrument continues in force after that
        commencement as if it had been duly made, given, published, signed or
        issued, as the case may be, by the Minister under that provision as so
        amended.

(2) Where:

   (a)  the Comptroller-General of Customs gave, before the commencement of
        this section, a delegation to another person to exercise a power
        conferred on the Comptroller-General of Customs by section 4, 4A, 5,
        8, 9, 10, 11 or 20 of the Principal Act;

   (b)  that provision of the Principal Act is amended by this Act so as to
        confer that power on the Minister; and

   (c)  that delegation was in force immediately before that commencement; the
        delegation continues in force after that commencement as if it were a
        delegation duly given by the Minister to that other person under
        section 19 of the Principal Act as amended by this Act.

(3) Where:

   (a)  the Comptroller-General of Customs or a delegate of the
        Comptroller-General of Customs did or refused to do before the
        commencement of this section any act or thing not mentioned in
        subsection (1) or (2) under a power conferred on the
        Comptroller-General of Customs by section 4, 4A, 5 or 20 of the
        Principal Act; and

   (b)  that provision of the Principal Act is amended by this Act so as to
        confer that power on the Minister; the Principal Act as amended by
        this Act applies as if the Minister had duly done or refused to do, as
        the case may be, that act or thing.