CUSTOMS TARIFF (COAL EXPORT DUTY) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 NO. 17, 1982 

CUSTOMS TARIFF (COAL EXPORT DUTY) AMENDMENT ACT 1982 NO. 17, 1982 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title.  
2. Commencement  
3.  
4. Exemption  
5. Application  

Customs Tariff (Coal Export Duty) Amendment Act 1982 No. 17 of 1982
- SECT 1
Short title.

         An Act to amend the Customs Tariff (Coal Export Duty) Act 1975

                               (Assented to 28 April 1982)

Short title, &c.

  1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Coal Export Duty)
Amendment Act 1982.
  (2) The Customs Tariff (Coal Export Duty) Act 1975*1* is in this Act
referred to as the Principal Act.

Customs Tariff (Coal Export Duty) Amendment Act 1982 No. 17 of 1982
- SECT 2
Commencement

  2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation at the hour of 8
o'clock in the evening by standard time in the Australian Capital Territory on
18 August 1981.

Customs Tariff (Coal Export Duty) Amendment Act 1982 No. 17 of 1982
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  3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section
substituted:
Interpretation

  ''4. (1) In this Act-

         'coal' does not include brown coal;

         'high quality coking coal' means coal other than coal that a
Collector is satisfied is included in a category of coal specified in any of
the following paragraphs:

        (a)  coal the carbon content in which, if that content were determined
by ultimate analysis on a dry ash free basis, would be less than 85%;

        (b)  coal that, if subjected to proximate analysis on an air-dried
basis, would be classified as coal having an ash content greater than 12%;

        (c)  coal the crucible swelling number of which is not greater than
3.

  ''(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), the crucible swelling number of
coal is the number that, if the coal were subjected to a test made for the
purpose of determining the crucible swelling number of the coal, being a test
approved in writing by the Minister, would be that number.''.

Customs Tariff (Coal Export Duty) Amendment Act 1982 No. 17 of 1982
- SECT 4
Exemption

  4. Section 7 of the Principal Act is repealed.

Customs Tariff (Coal Export Duty) Amendment Act 1982 No. 17 of 1982
- SECT 5
Application

  5. Notwithstanding the amendments made by this Act, the Principal Act
continues to apply to, and in relation to-

         (a)  coal that has been loaded on to a ship before the time specified
in section 2 for export from Australia; or

         (b)  coal that is loaded on to a ship after the time specified in
section 2 for export from Australia as part of a consignment of coal for
export from Australia the loading of which on to that ship commenced before
that time.

Customs Tariff (Coal Export Duty) Amendment Act 1982 No. 17 of 1982 - NOTE

                                      NOTE
1.  No. 106, 1975, as amended. For previous amendments, see Nos. 37 and 145,
1976; No. 103, 1977; and No. 176, 1979.