CUSTOMS DUTIES ACT, 1956.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 398, 30 August 1856, Page 5

CUSTOMS DUTIES ACT, 1956.

(Assented to August 11th.) WB* * AN ACT TO ALTER THE DUTIES OF CUSTOMS. Whereas it is expedient to alter the Duties of Customs payable on the importation of Goods, Wares, ahd Merchandise into the Colony of New Zealand. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand as follows. 1. Any duties of Customs chargeable upon the goods, wares, and merchandize hereafter mentioned, imported into the -Colony of New Zealand, shall cease and determine from and after the fifth day of August, 1856, viz.;— 1. All articles for the supply of Her Majesty's land and sea forces. 2. Animals, living. 3. Bricks,|Slates, and stones, for buijding purposes ; and Mill Stones. 4. Boats. 5. Books, printed, not being account books. 6. Bottles full of an article, subject to duty. 7. Bullion and Coin. 8. Casks, empty. 9. Coal. 10. Corn, Grain, Meal, Flour, Bread, and Biscuit. 1.1. Gunpowder, fit only for blasting purposes. 12. Iron, pig. 13. Machinery, viz., Brick and Tile Making, Draining, Flax, Hay and Wool Pressing, Straw and Turnip cutting, Reaping, Thrashing, and Winnowing Machines, Steam Engines and Apparatus for ditto, and Machinery for Mills, including Hand. Flour Mills. M. Manure. 15. Oil, Blubber, and Bone, being the produce of fish, or marine animals. 16. Plants, Bulbs, and seeds. 17. Passengers" Personal baggage. 18. Ploughs and Harrows. 19. Specimens illustrative of Natural History. 20. Tobacco for sheep subject to its being rendered unfit for human consumption, and to such regulations as the Governor shall from time to time prescribe in that behalf. 2. The duties of Customs now chargeable on the importation of Goods, Wares, and Merchandize next hereafter specified, shall £cease and determine, and in lieu thereof, the, following duties shall be charged on all such Goods, Wares, and Merchandize imported into the Colony of Zealand, or cleared from any warehouse for home consumption, from and after "the sch day of August, 1856, yiz.: £ s. d. 1. Ale, Beer, Cider, and Perry, in wood, the gallon . .0 0 6 Ale, Beer, Cider, and Perry, in bottle, the gallon . .010 2. Cigars and Snuff, the lb. .030 3. Coffee, Chicory, and Chocolate, the lb. . . .002 4. Iron, rod, bar, bolt, hoop, and sheet, not otherwise manufactured, per cwt. . .010 5. Salt, the cwt. . . .010 6. Spirits and strong waters of every kind, sweetened or otherwise, of any strength not exceeding the strength of proof by Syke's hydrometer, and so on in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of proof, the gallon . . . . 0 S 0 7. Sugar, raw and refined, of all kinds, and Treacle and Molasses, the lb. . .000* 8. Tea, the lb. . . . .0 0 3 9. Tobacco, the lb. . . .013 10, Wine, in wood and bottle, containing less than 25 per cent, of alcohol of a specific ngravity of .825 at the ter-

perature of 60 degrees £. a. d. • Fahrenheit's thermometer, the gallon . . . .030 11. Wood—of all kinds, not manufactured into furniture, the cubic foot . . 0 0 2 12. Boots and shoes, Hats, Apparel of all kinds, and all material for making apparel, Jewellery, Cutlery, Clocks, watches, and Plated ' ". V 3 Ware, all Silk, Woollen, Cotton, and Linen, Manufactures, (except corn and gunny bags, and woolpacks), Sperm, Stearine, and Wax Candles, (measuring outside the packages), the cubic foot 0 3 0' 13. All other goods, Wares, and Merchandize, (measuring outside the packages) the cubic foot . . . 0 10 Or at the option of the principal officer of Customs at the port of entry at which the same shall be imported, the cwt. . . . 0 2 0 . 3. A drawback of the whole of such duties shall be allowed for wines intended for the consumption of the officers of her Majesty's troops serving in the Colony of New Zealand, and of the officers of her Majesty's Navy serving on board any of her Majesty's ships in the seas adjoining thereto, or such Wines may be landed on first importation or delivered out of bond free of duty, subject in all cases to such regulations as the Governor shall from time to time prescribe. Provided always, if any such. Wines shall be subsequently sold in the said colony, except for the use or consumption of any of her Majesty's Military or Naval Officers serving as aforesaid, the same shall be forfeited and liable to seizure accordingly. 4. All duties of Customs under this Act shall be charged and paid, according to the Standard Imperial Weights and Measures, and where such duties were charged according to any specified quantity, weight or size, the same shall be chargeable in proportion on any greater or less quantity, weight or size. 5. The Duties of Customs imposed by this Act shall be raised, levied, and collected and paid in like manner as if the said duties had been imposed by the Ordinance, Session 1. 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 or by virtue of any local Act or Ordinance for the collection and for the general regulation of the Revenue of Customs in the Colony of New Zealand. 6. And whereas contracts or agreements may have been made for the sale or delivery of some of the goods or commodities on which increased or additional duties of customs are by this Act imposed, which contracts or agreements may have been made with no reference to such additional duties, and thereby the several contractors may be materially affected: For remedy thereof be it enacted that every person who shall have made or entered into any such contract or agreement shall be and is hereby authorised and empowered in the case of any such contract or agreement to add so much money as will be equivalent to the increased or additional duty hereby granted on any such goods or commodities respectively to the price thereof, and shall be entitled by virtue of this Act to be paid and to sue for and recover the same accordingly. 7. The term " Governor " shall mean tne person for the time being lawfully administering the Government of the Colony of New Zealand. 8. This Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Customs Duties Act, 1556."