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IMPORT PROCESSING CHARGES AMENDMENT ACT 2000 NO. 3, 2000 - SCHEDULE 1
- Amendment of the Import Processing Charges Act 1997
1 Section 3 (paragraph (a) of the definition of line )
After "documentary"
(wherever occurring), insert "or electronic".
2 Section 3
Insert: low
value cargo has the same meaning as in section 63A of the Customs Act.
3 Section 3
Insert: mail-order house has the same meaning as in section 63A
of the Customs Act.
4 Section 3
Insert: reportable document has the same meaning as in section
63A of the Customs Act.
5 Section 3
Insert: special reporter has the same meaning as in section 63A
of the Customs Act.
6 Section 7
Repeal the section, substitute: 7 Amount of screening charge
The amount of screening charge payable in respect of a documentary or
electronic report that is, or is a part of, a cargo report is:
- (a)
- unless paragraph (b), (c) or (d) applies, or the report or that part of
the report that relates to goods in respect of which, in accordance with
subsection 64ABC(1A) of the Customs Act, there is no liability for screening
charge—$2.40 for each line of the documentary or electronic report that
relates to a consignment of goods of a kind referred to in paragraph 68(1)(f)
of the Customs Act or such other amount for each such line, not exceeding
$3.60, as is prescribed; and
- (b)
- if the report is made by a special reporter at the level of specificity of
an ocean bill of lading or of a master or submaster air waybill, in relation
to low value cargo consigned from a mail-order house to which the registration
of that special reporter applies—$45 for the report or such other amount,
not exceeding $67.50, as is prescribed; and
- (c)
- if the report is made by a special reporter at the level of specificity of
an ocean bill of lading or of a master or submaster air waybill, in relation
to low value cargo comprising reportable documents to which the registration
of that special reporter applies—$45 for the report or such other amount,
not exceeding $67.50, as is prescribed; and
- (d)
- if the report is made by a special reporter at the level of specificity of
an ocean bill of lading or of a master or submaster air waybill, in relation
to low value cargo of any other kind to which the registration of that special
reporter applies—such amount in respect of each report, not exceeding
$67.50, as is prescribed.
7 Saving provision
Despite the repeal of section 7 of the Import Processing
Charges Act 1997 as in force immediately before the commencement of items 2 to
6 of this Schedule, the liability of any person to pay charge under that
section as so in force in respect of any cargo report made before that
commencement continues to exist as if the repeal had not been made.
(38/99)
[ Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on
25 March 1999
Senate on 24 May 1999 ]