House of Representatives

Explanatory Memorandum

(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, the Hon. Peter Dutton MP)

Schedule 9 - Repeal of Acts

Part 1 - Repeals of Acts

Customs (Tariff Concession System Validations) Act 1999

Item 1 - The whole of the Act

121. This item repeals the stand-alone Customs (Tariff Concessions System Validations) Act 1999 (the CTCSV Act).

122. The CTCSV Act was enacted in November 1999. Its purpose was to validate decisions in relation to the making of tariff concession orders that were based on incorrect delegations or the lack of appropriate delegations. The decisions were made during the period between 15 July 1996 and 31 May 1999. As these decisions were made within a discrete 3 year period and the Act is now 17 years old, it is now obsolete.

Import Processing Charges (Amendment and Repeal) Act 2002

Item 2 - The whole of the Act

123. This item repeals the whole of the Import Processing Charges (Amendment and Repeal) Act 2002.

124. The Import Processing Charges (Amendment and Repeal Act) 2002 continued the operation of the old import processing charges prior to the full commencement of the Customs Legislation Amendment and Repeal (International Trader Modernisation) Act 2001 in 2005 and the new import processing charges imposed by the Import Processing Charges Act 2001. As the old charges ceased to be used from 3 February 2006, this Act is now obsolete.

Part 2 - Saving provisions

Item 3 - Saving provision

125. Part 2 of this Schedule contains a consequential savings provision. The savings provision ensures the continued operation of the validation function in the CTCSV Act after the repeal of that Act.