Tariff Act 1988

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Reprint as at 1 January 2010

Tariff Act 1988

Public Act1988 No 155
Date of assent29 November 1988
Commencementsee section 1
Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Commerce

Contents

Title

1 Short Title and commencement

2 Interpretation

2A Act to bind the Crown

3 The Tariff

3A Removal of all tariff duties by no later than 1 July 2006 [Repealed]

3B Limits on rates of duty for certain goods pending removal of duty [Repealed]

4 Enforcement of Tariff

5 Value of goods for the purpose of applying Tariff

6 Duty payable under Normal Tariff

7 Application of Tariff

7A Orders in Council about preferential countries

7B Evidence of whether South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Co-operation Agreement is in force in relation to country

7C Incorporation of provisions by reference in regulations

7D Effect of amendments to, or replacement of, provisions incorporated by reference

7E Proof of provisions incorporated by reference

7F Access to provisions incorporated by reference

7G Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 not applicable to provisions incorporated by reference

7H Application of Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989 to provisions incorporated by reference

8 Concessions

9 Alterations and modifications of Tariff

9A Certification of 2010 Tariff Document

9B Access to Tariff

9C Regulations (Disallowance) Act 1989 and Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

9D Judicial notice of Tariff

9E Evidence of Tariff

9F Tariff may be amended, and must be interpreted, as if it were an enactment

9G References to Schedule 1

10 Alterations to nomenclature

11 Orders in Council relating to Tariff

12 Actions pending alteration of Tariff

13 Certain Orders in Council relating to duties may be retrospective

14 Determinations relating to unassembled goods for use in manufacture or assembly of motor vehicles

15 Power of chief executive to prescribe forms

15A Interpretation

15B Chief executive may undertake transitional safeguard investigation

15C Investigative procedures

15D Matters to be taken into account by chief executive

15E Publication of investigation results

15F Application of transitional safeguard measure

15G Extension of transitional safeguard measure

15H Provisional transitional safeguard measure

16 General provisions as to Orders in Council

16A Fees

16B Regulations relating to goods temporarily imported and drawbacks of duty

17 Transitional provisions

18 Consequential amendments

Schedule 1
The Tariff

[Repealed]

Schedule 2
Enactments amended

Schedule 3
Enactments repealed

Reprint notes

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the imposition of tariff duty

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows: