Customs Amendment (China-Australia Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Act 2015 (136 of 2015)

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. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

11 November 2015

2. Schedule 1

The later of:

(a) the day this Act receives the Royal Assent; and

(b) the day the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement, done at Canberra on 17 June 2015, enters into force for Australia.

However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.

The Minister must announce by notice in the Gazette the day the Agreement enters into force for Australia.

 

3. Schedule 2

The later of:

(a) immediately after the commencement of Schedule 1 to the Acts and Instruments (Framework Reform) Act 2015; and

(b) immediately after the commencement of the provisions covered by table item 2.

However, the provisions do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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.