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Customs (Validation of Tariff) Act 1971-72

COOK ISLANDS

CUSTOMS (VALIDATION OF TARIFF) ACT 1971–72
No. 8

ANALYSIS

Title

1. Short Title and commencement
2. Validation of Tariff
3. Revocation

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1971-72, No. 8

An Act to validate the Customs Tariff Amendment Order 1967.

(8 March 1972

WHEREAS subsection (2) of section 31 of the Customs Amendment Act 1921 as amended by the New Zealand Laws Act 1966 requires every Order in Executive Council made under the authority of the Customs Amendment Act 1921 to be laid before the Legislative Assembly within fourteen days after the gazetting thereof if the Legislative Assembly is then in session, and, if not, then within fourteen days after the commencement of the next ensuing session AND WHEREAS subsection (2A) of section 31 of the Customs Amendment Act 1921 as amended by the New Zealand Laws Act 1966 provides that every Order in Executive Council made under section 12 of the Customs Amendment Act 1921 and laid before the Legislative Assembly in any session pursuant to subsection (2) of section 31 of the Customs Amendment Act 1921 as amended as aforesaid shall expire on the close of the last day of that session except so far as it is expressly validated or confirmed by an Act of the Legislative Assembly passed during that session AND WHEREAS the Customs Tariff Amendment Order 1967 was made on the 29th day of December 1967 partly under the authority of section 12 of the Customs Amendment Act 1921 AND WHEREAS that order came into force on the 1st day of January 1968 AND WHEREAS that Order was not laid before the Legislative Assembly and was not validated and confirmed by an Act of the Legislative Assembly as required as aforesaid AND WHEREAS it is desirable to confirm and validate that Order as from the 1st day of January 1968:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. Short Title and commencement – (1) This Act may be cited as the Customs (Validation of Tariff) Act 1971-72.

(2) This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of January 1968.

2. Validation of Tariff – Notwithstanding any provision in any other enactment, the Customs Tariff Amendment Order 1967 (Serial Number 1967/3) (except insofar as that Order revokes the Cook Islands Customs Duties Order 1962) is hereby validated and confirmed, and the duties and exemptions from duty contained in that Order shall be the duties and exemptions in force.

3. Revocation – The Cook Islands Customs Duties Order 1962 (Serial Number 1972/190) is hereby revoked.

This Act is administered in the Customs Department.