Commonwealth: Customs Amendment (Expedited Seizure and Disposal of Engineered Stone) Act 2025 (Cth)

Customs Amendment (Expedited Seizure and Disposal of Engineered Stone) Act 2025 No. 11, 2025 An Act to amend the Customs Act 1901, and for related purposes Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedules Schedule 1—Amendments Customs Act 1901 Customs Amendment (Expedited Seizure and Disposal of Engineered Stone) Act 2025 No. 11, 2025 An Act to amend the Customs Act 1901, and for related purposes [Assented to 20 February 2025] The Parliament of Australia enacts: 1 Short title This Act is the Customs Amendment (Expedited Seizure and Disposal of Engineered Stone) Act 2025. 2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms. Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this Act The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. 21 February 2025 Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act. 3 Schedules Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms. Schedule 1—Amendments Customs Act 1901 1 Subsection 183UA(1) Insert: engineered stone has the same meaning as in regulation 5M of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956. 2 After subsection 206(2B) Insert: Engineered stone (2C) If: (a) goods are seized under a seizure warrant or under subsection 203B(2) or (2A), 203CA(3) or 203CB(2); and (b) the Comptroller‑General of Customs is satisfied that the goods are engineered stone that is a prohibited import; the Comptroller‑General of Customs may cause the goods to be dealt with in such manner as the Comptroller‑General considers appropriate (including the destruction of the goods). 3 Subsection 206(3) Omit "(2A) or (2B)", substitute "(2A), (2B) or (2C)". 4 Paragraph 206(5)(c) Omit "(2A) or (2B)", substitute "(2A), (2B) or (2C)". 5 Subsections 206(6) and (7) Omit "(2A) or (2B)", substitute "(2A), (2B) or (2C)". [Minister's second reading speech made in— House of Representatives on 28 November 2024 Senate on 13 February 2025] (156/24)