Tariff and Development Board Amendment Act 1970

Public Act		1970 No 37
Date of assent		29 October 1970

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Temporary duty or restriction on importation
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Tariff and Development Board Act 1961

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Tariff and Development Board Amendment Act 1970, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Tariff and Development Board Act 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Temporary duty or restriction on importation

(1)

Section 10e of the principal Act (as inserted by section 3 of the Tariff and Development Board Amendment Act 1967) is hereby amended by repealing subsection (3), and substituting the following subsection:

“(3)

A temporary duty or temporary restriction on importation imposed pursuant to this section shall, unless it is sooner revoked, cease to have effect either on the date on which it is superseded or on the expiration of a period of 5 months from the date on which the Minister who requested the report receives the final report of the Board on the question so referred to it, whichever event first happens.”

(2)

The said section 10e is hereby further amended by inserting in subsection (4), after the word “following”, the words “either an interim report from the Board, received by the Minister before the expiration of a period of 10 months from the date on which the temporary duty or restriction was imposed, or”.

(3)

The said section 10e is hereby further amended by repealing subsection (5), and substituting the following subsection:

“(5)

For the purposes of this section, as soon as practicable after the Minister who requested the report from the Board receives the final report of the Board, notice shall be given in the Gazette of the fact that the Minister has received that report and of the date on which he received it.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Industries and Commerce.

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