Customs Act 1901

PART XVI - REGULATIONS AND BY-LAWS  

SECTION 273EA   NOTIFICATION OF PROPOSALS WHEN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS NOT SITTING  

273EA(1)   [Publication of notice]  

The Minister may, at any time when the Parliament is prorogued or the House of Representatives has expired by effluxion of time, has been dissolved or is adjourned otherwise than for a period not exceeding 7 days, publish in the Gazette a notice that it is intended, within 7 sitting days of the House of Representatives after the date of the publication of the notice, to propose in the Parliament a Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration in accordance with particulars specified in the notice and operating as from such time as is specified in the notice, not being -

(a) in the case of a Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration that could have the effect of making the duty payable by any person importing goods greater than the duty that would, but for that Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration, be payable - a time earlier than the time of publication of the notice; or

(b) in any other case - a time earlier than 6 months before the time of publication of the notice.

273EA(2)   [Deemed to be alteration]  

Where notice of intention to propose a Customs Tariff or a Customs Tariff alteration has been published in accordance with this section, the Customs Tariff or Customs Tariff alteration shall, for the purposes of this Act (other than section 226) and any other Act, be deemed to be a Customs Tariff or a Customs Tariff alteration, as the case may be, proposed in the Parliament.