Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill 2021
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13 September 2021

2019-2020-2021

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

 

As passed by both Houses

 

 

 

 

Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill 2021

 

No.      , 2021

 

 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995 , and for related purposes

   

   



Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1

3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                 3

Part 1—Medical products or hygiene products for use in combating COVID-19              3

Customs Tariff Act 1995                                                                                              3

Part 2—Goods for use in F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Program             4

Customs Tariff Act 1995                                                                                              4

Part 3—Goods for use in relation to motor vehicles designed or engineered in Australia              5

Customs Tariff Act 1995                                                                                              5

 

 



A Bill for an Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1995 , and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1   Short title

                   This Act is the Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2021 .

2   Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

2.  Schedule 1, Part 1

1 January 2021.

1 January 2021

3.  Schedule 1, Part 2

1 March 2021.

1 March 2021

4.  Schedule 1, Part 3

1 April 2021.

1 April 2021

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3   Schedules

                   Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1 Amendments

Part 1 Medical products or hygiene products for use in combating COVID-19

Customs Tariff Act 1995

1  Schedule 4 (table item 57, column headed “Description of goods”, paragraph (c))

Omit “31 December 2020”, substitute “30 June 2021”.

Part 2 Goods for use in F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Program

Customs Tariff Act 1995

2  At the end of Schedule 4

Add:

58

Goods that are for use in the program known as the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter Program

Free

3  Application provision

The amendment made by this Part applies in relation to:

                     (a)  goods imported into Australia on or after the commencement of this item; and

                     (b)  goods imported into Australia before the commencement of this item, where the time for working out the rate of import duty on the goods had not occurred before that commencement.

Part 3 Goods for use in relation to motor vehicles designed or engineered in Australia

Customs Tariff Act 1995

4  Schedule 4 (after table item 39)

Insert:

39A

Goods, as prescribed by by-law, that are for use in the testing, quality control, manufacturing evaluation or engineering development of:

(a) motor vehicles designed or engineered, or in the process of being designed or engineered, in Australia by a person who was registered as an automotive service provider under the Automotive Transformation Scheme (within the meaning of the Automotive Transformation Scheme Act 2009 ) on 30 March 2021; or

(b) components for inclusion in such motor vehicles;

where the time for working out the rate of duty on the goods is in the period beginning on 1 April 2021 and ending at the end of 30 June 2025

Free

(70/21)