This Act may be cited as the Heavy Engineering Research Levy Amendment Act 1996, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Heavy Engineering Research Levy Act 1978 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(1) Subsection (1) substituted s 4(1) and (4) of the principal Act.

(2) Subsection (2) substituted s 4(1) and (4) of the principal Act.

(3) The Heavy Engineering Research Levy Amendment Act 1986 is hereby consequentially amended by repealing section 3.

This section amended s 12 of the principal Act.

(1) Subsection (1) substituted Schedule 2 to the principal Act.

(2) The Heavy Engineering Research Levy Amendment Act 1987 is hereby consequentially amended by repealing section 2 and Schedule 1.

(1) Subsection (1) substituted Schedule 3 to the principal Act.

(2) The Heavy Engineering Research Levy Amendment Act 1987 is hereby consequentially amended by repealing section 3 and Schedule 2.

(3) The Heavy Engineering Research Levy Act Amendment Order 1989 (SR 1989/83) is hereby consequentially revoked.

For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that no imposition or collection of any levy before the commencement of this Act on any goods comprising items of the Tariff is invalid by reason only of the fact that the Tariff item numbers, descriptions of goods, and Tariff statistical key code numbers were incorrectly specified in Schedule 2 or Schedule 3 to the principal Act at the time of imposition or collection of the levy.