Bills Digest No. 172 2004–05
Customs Legislation Amendment (Import Processing
Charges) Bill 2005
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CONTENTS
Passage History
Purpose
Background
Main Provisions
Concluding Comments
Endnotes
Contact Officer & Copyright Details
Passage History
Customs
Legislation Amendment (Import Processing Charges)
Bill 2005
Date
Introduced: 26 May
2005
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Justice and Customs
Commencement:
The procedural clauses
will commence with Royal Assent. The substantive items contained in
Schedule 1 have various commencement days.
The Customs Legislation Amendment
(Import Processing Charges) Bill 2005 ( the Bill ) will repeal the
self-assessed clearance declaration and the screening charge.
This Bill is one of a package of two Bills to restructure import
processing charges paid by people importing goods into Australia.
This Bill will repeal the self-assessed clearance declaration and
the screening charge. The other Bill, the Import Processing Charges
Amendment Bill 2005, will increase the amount of the import
declaration and the warehouse declaration processing charges. For
further details on the background relevant to both Bills,
especially in relation to restructuring the import processing
charges, please refer to the separate Bills Digest prepared for the
Import Processing Charges Amendment Bill 2005 .(1)
Schedule 1 of the Bill makes all the relevant
amendments to the Customs Act 1901 and the Import
Charges Act 2001 which are necessary to repeal the provisions
relating to the self-assessed clearance declaration charge and the
screening charge.
The individual items contained in Schedule 1 have various
commencement dates determined with respect to the commencement
dates of various provisions in the Customs Legislation
Amendment Act (No. 1) 2002, the Customs Legislation
Amendment and Repeal (International Trade Modernisation) Act
2001, the Customs Legislation (Application of
International Trade Modernisation and Other Measures) Act
2004, the Import Processing Charges Act 2001 and the
Import Processing Charges (Amendment and Repeal) Act
2002.
Endnotes
- R. Bell and T. John, Import Processing Charges Bill 2005 ,
Bills Digest, No. 173, 2004 05 Parliamentary Library,
Canberra.
Rosemary Bell and Thomas John
2 June 2005
Bills Digest Service
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