Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, that so much of the said recited Ordinance as relates to the amount of duties to be imposed on goods wares and merchandise imported into and landed in the Colony of New Zealand, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

In lieu of the said duties there shall be raised levied collected and paid unto Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, for the public uses of the Colony, upon goods wares and merchandise which shall be imported into the Colony of New Zealand and landed at any port or place therein after this Ordinance shall come into operation, the several duties of Customs as the same are respectively inserted described and set forth in figures in the table to this Ordinance annexed, denominated “A Table of Duties of Customs.”

The duties of Customs hereby imposed shall be raised levied collected and paid in like manner as if the said duties had been imposed by the Ordinance (Session I., No. 3,) to provide for the collection of duties imposed on goods imported into and for the general regulation of the revenue of Customs in the Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, and subject also to all such provisions and regulations as may for the time being be in force under and by virtue of any local Ordinance for the collection of and for the general regulation of the revenue of Customs in the Colony of New Zealand.

This Ordinance shall come into operation at the port of Auckland on the day next following the passing hereof; at every other port of entry within the Colony on the day next following the receipt of a copy hereof by the principal officer of Customs at any such port, who is hereby required immediately upon the receipt thereof to give public notice of the same; and at all other places throughout the Colony on the fifteenth day of December next.