Product Emissions Standards (Consequential Provisions) Act 2017

(107 of 2017)

An Act to deal with consequential matters in relation to the enactment of the Product Emissions Standards Act 2017, and for related purposes

[Assented to 14 September 2017]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1   Short title

This Act is the Product Emissions Standards (Consequential Provisions) Act 2017.

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. The whole of this Act

At the same time as the Product Emissions StandardsAct 2017 commences.

However, the provisions do not commence at all if that Act does not commence.

15 September 2017

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Customs Act 1901

1   At the end of section 229

Add:

(4) In spite of subsection (1), goods are not forfeited to the Crown merely because they are imported or exported in contravention of the Product Emissions Standards Act 2017.