Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L00072:schedule:4:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L00072
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 4 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 417–3125

Schedule 4

     1. This by-law may be cited as Customs By-law No. 1700571.

    2.             This by-law takes effect on and from 1 February 2018.

    3.             For the purposes of item 15 of Schedule 4 to the Customs Tariff Act 1995, goods that are specified in Column 1 of the Table below (the Table) are prescribed.

    4.             The application of item 15 to the goods specified in Column 1 of the Table are subject to:

       (a) paragraph 5; and

       (b) the exclusions and conditions, if any, set out in Column 2 opposite those goods or in paragraph 9.

    5.             The goods must:

       (a) be imported as the accompanied baggage of an arriving person or purchased by an arriving person at an inwards duty free shop; and

       (b) not be commercial goods; and

       (c) not be motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts.

    6.             For item 5 of the Table, if:

       (a)  the total quantity of alcoholic beverages imported by the person (if any) and purchased by the person at an inwards duty free shop (if any) exceeds 2,250 ml; and

       (b) the person has not concealed any of the alcoholic beverages from Customs and the person does not wish to take the total quantity of alcoholic beverages into home consumption;

        the following applies:

       (c) item 15 applies only to the alcoholic beverages that are imported (if any) and purchased (if any) in one or more containers where the total contents of those containers are equal to or less than 2,250 ml; and

       (d) no alcoholic beverages may be removed from or added to any of the containers after the beverages are imported (if any) and purchased (if any), and before they are delivered into home consumption.

    7.             For the purposes of item 7 of the Table one cigarette is taken to weigh 1 gram.

    8.             For the purposes of item 8 of the Table, the amount, in respect of a family that arrived in Australia on a flight or voyage, is the amount calculated in accordance with the formula:

    ($900 x A) + ($450 x C)

       where:

           A is the number of adults in the family who were on the flight or voyage; and
           C is the number of children in the family who were on the flight or voyage.

    9.             In this by-law:

       accompanied baggage means goods which:

       (a) are carried or worn by an arriving person and are available for presentation to Customs at the time of his or her processing through Customs;  or

       (b) are consigned to travel on the same ship or aircraft as the arriving person as baggage under a passenger's ticket baggage allowance or as excess baggage, but which are loaded onto another ship or aircraft