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Customs and Excise Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1997
Date Introduced: 25 June 1997
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Industry, Science and Tourism
Commencement: On commencement of the Excise Tariff (Fuel Rates
Amendments) Act 1997
To amend the Customs Act 1901 and the Excise Act 1901 by inserting new definitions, new offences and appropriate penalties relating to the entry for home consumption of marked and unmarked fuel.
The reader is referred to the Bills Digest prepared for the Excise Tariff (Fuel Rates Amendments) Bill 1997.
This bill contains consequential amendments to the Customs Act and the Excise Act resulting from proposed amendments contained in the Customs Tariff (Fuel Rates Amendments) Bill 1997 and the Excise Tariff (Fuel Rates Amendments) Bill 1997.
Item 1 of Schedule 1 amends the Customs Act 1901 by inserting four new definitions which enable penalties to be paid by people who substitute fuel at the point of entry for home consumption (Item 2).The penalties cover both the substitution of unmarked fuel for marked fuel and vice versa.The substitution of marked fuel (that is, fuel entered for home consumption at a concessional or 'free' rate of customs duty) for unmarked fuel (that is, fuel on which the highest rate of customs duty is payable) involves the evasion of customs duty.The substitution of unmarked fuel for marked fuel, while it does not involve any evasion of customs duty, exposes subsequent users, buyers and sellers of the fuel to the penalty surcharges and penalties under the other Penalty Surcharge and Administration Bills in this package.
Items 3 to 17 amend the Excise Act 1901.Items 3 and 15 parallel the amendments to the Customs Act described above.
Rosemary Bell
4 September 1997
Bills Digest Service
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ISSN 1328-8091
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