Commonwealth Numbered Acts

INDUSTRIES ASSISTANCE COMMISSION ACT 1973 No. 169 of 1973 - SECT 29

29. (1) Notwithstanding sub-section 23 (3), where-

   (a)  a Temporary Assistance Authority has, under section 28, reported that
        it is necessary that urgent action be taken to protect an industry in
        relation to the importation of any goods and that the protection can
        appropriately be provided by means of, or by means of measures that
        include, a temporary duty; and

   (b)  the Minister has referred to the Commission for inquiry and report the
        matter of whether duties should be imposed on those goods or the
        matter of whether the rates of duties imposed on those goods should be
        increased, the Minister may take action for the purpose of the
        collection of a duty in respect of those goods (in addition to any
        existing duty) at a rate not exceeding the rate specified in the
        report of the Temporary Assistance Authority and not to operate after
        the expiration of a period of three months from the date upon which
        the Minister receives the report of the Commission upon the reference.

(2) Where the Minister takes action for the purpose of the collection of a
temporary duty, a copy of the relevant report under section 28 shall be laid
before the House of Representatives-

   (a)  if that House is sitting on the day on which the temporary duty
        commences to be collected-on or before that day; or

   (b)  in any other case-within seven sitting days of that House after that
        day.

(3) On the day on which a copy of a report is laid before the House of
Representatives under sub-section (2) or on the next sitting day of the
Senate, a copy of that report shall be laid before the Senate.

(4) Where a temporary duty has commenced to be collected in respect of any
goods, the Minister shall, as soon as practicable after receipt by him of the
report of the Commission upon the reference to the Commission or to the Tariff
Board with respect to those goods that was pending on the date as from which
the duty commenced to be collected, notify in the Gazette the fact that he has
received the report of the Commission upon that reference and the date upon
which he received that report.