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Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 2) 1987

No. 147 of 1987

An Act to amend the Customs Tariff Act 1987

[Assented to 26 December 1987]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title etc.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Customs Tariff Amendment Act (No. 2) 1987.
(2) In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Customs Tariff Act 19871.

Commencement
2. (1) Sections 1, 2 and 4 shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Sections 3 and 5 shall come into operation on the commencement of the Principal Act.

Indexation of rates of duty
3. Section 26 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the table set out in subsection (1) and substituting the following table:
"TABLE
Column 1    Column 2   Column 1    Column 2
Customs     Excise     Customs     Excise
subheading  item       subheading  item
2203.00.11  1 (C)      2208.90.10  2 (H) (1)
2203.00.19  1 (D)      2208.90.90  2 (H) (1)
2207.10.00  2 (O)      2402.10.00  7
2207.20.00  2 (O)      2402.20.00  8
2208.20.11  2 (A)      2403.10.10  8
2208.20.19  2 (A)      2403.10.90  6
2208.20.91  2 (H) (1)  2403.99.20  9
2208.20.99  2 (H) (1)  2403.99.90  6
2208.30.10  2 (D)      2707.50.10  11 (B) (3)
2208.30.90  2 (D)      2710.00.20  11 (E) (2)
2208.40.10  2 (F)      2710.00.30  11 (E) (3)
2208.40.90  2 (F)      2710.00.40  11 (D)
2208.50.10  2 (H) (1)  2710.00.51  11 (A) (3) (a)
2208.50.90  2 (H) (1)  2710.00.52  11 (A) (3) (b)".

Repeal
4. Section 28 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:
"(1) Each of the Acts referred to in Schedule 6, and any Act passed in 1987, to the extent only that it amends an Act so referred to, is repealed.".

Amendments of Schedules
5. The Principal Act is further amended as set out in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE Section 5
AMENDMENTS HAVING EFFECT FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT

Amendments of Schedule 3
1. Omit 0406.10.00 to 0406.90, substitute:
"0406.10.00  - Fresh cheese (including whey cheese), not fermented, and curd  Sch.5
0406.20.00   - Grated or powdered cheese, of all kinds                        Sch.5
0406.30.00   - Processed cheese, not grated or powdered                       Sch.5
0406.40      - Blue-veined cheese:
0406.40.10   - - - Cheese, of the following types:                            Free
               (a) roquefort;
               (b) stilton
0406.40.90   - - - Other                                                      Sch.5

                                    SCHEDULE—continued
    0406.90                         - Other cheese:
    0406.90.10                      - - - Cheese, of the following types:                                                                       Free
                                        (a) made wholly from goats' milk, other than fetta or kasseri;
                                        (b) surface-ripened soft, having:
                                          (i) a fat content in the dry matter of not less than 50% by weight; and
                                          (ii) a moisture content of not less than 65%