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1998-99
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first
time
Import
Processing Charges Amendment (Warehouses) Bill
1999
No. ,
1999
(Justice and
Customs)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Import Processing Charges Act 1997, and for related
purposes
ISBN: 0642 400148
Contents
Import Processing Charges Act
1997 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Import Processing
Charges Act 1997, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Import Processing Charges Amendment
(Warehouses) Act 1999.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the day on which it
receives the Royal Assent.
(2) The items in Schedule 1, other than item 20, are taken to have
commenced on 29 April 1999.
Subject to section 2, each Act 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Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule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.
Import
Processing Charges Act 1997
1 Section 3
Insert:
general warehouse has the same meaning as in the Customs
Act.
2 Section 3
Insert:
general warehoused goods has the same meaning as in the
Customs Act.
3 Section 3 (at the end of the definition of
line)
Add:
Note: Because of the operation of section 98 of the Customs
Act, imported goods that are entered into home consumption after being subjected
to an activity authorised by a general or MiB warehouse licence are taken, for
the purpose of the entry into home consumption, to be characterised in the
manner they were originally characterised for the purpose of the entry for
warehousing.
4 Section 3
Insert:
MiB warehoused goods has the same meaning as in the Customs
Act.
5 Section 3
Insert:
MiB warehouse licence has the same meaning as in the Customs
Act.
6 Section 3
Insert:
MiB warehousing has the same meaning as in the Customs
Act.
7 Section 3
Insert:
movement permission means a movement permission granted under
section 71E of the Customs Act.
8 Section 3
Insert:
warehousing has the same meaning as in the Customs
Act.
9 Subsections 6(2), (3) and
(4)
Repeal the subsections, substitute:
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the flat rate is:
(a) in relation to a type A entry—such amount, not exceeding $44.00,
as is prescribed; and
(b) in relation to a type B entry or a type C entry—such amount, not
exceeding $34.00, as is prescribed; and
(c) in relation to a type CA entry or a type CB entry—such amount,
not exceeding $39.00, as is prescribed; and
(d) in relation to a type D entry—such amount, not exceeding $77.00,
as is prescribed; and
(e) in relation to a type E entry or a type F entry—such amount, not
exceeding $66.00, as is prescribed; and
(f) in relation to a type G entry or a type H entry—such amount, not
exceeding $92.75, as is prescribed.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), the line rate is:
(a) in relation to a type A entry, a type B entry, a type C entry, a type
CA entry or a type CB entry—such amount, not exceeding $0.30, as is
prescribed, for each line of the entry after the tenth line; and
(b) in relation to a type D entry, a type E entry, a type F entry, a type
G entry or a type H entry—such amount, not exceeding $1.50, as is
prescribed, for each line of the entry after the first line.
(4) Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (2) or (3) may
prescribe different flat rates, or different line rates:
(a) for different types of entry; or
(b) for different classes of persons liable to pay entry processing charge
under section 71AA of the Customs Act.
10 Subsection 6(5) (definition of type A
entry)
Omit “post”, substitute “post or goods imported for MiB
warehousing”.
11 Subsection 6(5) (definition of type B
entry)
Omit “post”, substitute “post or goods imported for MiB
warehousing”.
12 Subsection 6(5) (definition of type C
entry)
Omit “post”, substitute “post (other than goods so
imported for MiB warehousing)”.
13 Subsection 6(5)
Insert:
type CA entry means a computer entry relating to MiB
warehoused goods that are entered for home consumption.
14 Subsection 6(5)
Insert:
type CB entry means a computer entry relating to general
warehoused goods that are entered into home consumption after being moved from a
MiB warehouse to the general warehouse under a movement permission.
15 Subsection 6(5) (definition of type D
entry)
Omit “post”, substitute “post or goods imported for MiB
warehousing”.
16 Subsection 6(5) (definition of type E
entry)
Omit “post”, substitute “post or goods imported for MiB
warehousing”.
17 Subsection 6(5) (definition of type F
entry)
Omit “post”, substitute “post (other than goods so
imported for MiB warehousing)”.
18 Subsection 6(5)
Insert:
type G entry means a documentary import entry relating to MiB
warehoused goods that are entered for home consumption.
19 Subsection 6(5)
Insert:
type H entry means a documentary entry relating to general
warehoused goods that are entered into home consumption after being moved from a
MiB warehouse to the general warehouse under a movement permission.
20 Regulations may have retrospective effect to
29 April 1999
Despite the limitations set out in subsection 48(2) of the Acts
Interpretation Act 1901, regulations made for the purposes of subsection
6(2) or (3) of the Import Processing Charges Act 1997 as amended by this
Act may be expressed to take effect from 29 April 1999 and, if they are so
expressed, take effect accordingly.