New Zealand Gazette – 1933 – No. 37

Page 1377

✨ Customs Duties and Legal Convention



MAY 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1377

Tariff Item No. Goods. Customs Duties chargeable on Goods produced or manufactured in the Commonwealth of Australia.
First Column. Second Column. Third Column.
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389 Motor-vehicles n.e.i. 10 per cent. ad val.; and in cases where such motor-vehicles are imported having bodies suited or designed for carrying passengers, an additional duty (herein referred to as “body duty”) of 11½ per cent. ad val. on any such vehicle (inclusive of the body): Provided that where the value for duty of any vehicle (inclusive of the body) exceeds £200 the body duty shall be: On £200 of such value, 11½ per cent. ad val.; on the remainder of such value, 6½ per cent. ad val.
(1) When any body of a motor-vehicle suited or designed for carrying passengers is imported by itself or otherwise than as set out above, body duty shall be payable and the Minister shall determine the amount of such body duty. The body duty so payable shall, as nearly as may be, be equal to the amount of body duty that would have been payable if such body had been imported as part of and attached to a motor-vehicle manufactured in the same country as the body.
(2) Where the Minister is of opinion that any body duty is being or is likely to be evaded or avoided by the importation of any motor-vehicles without engines, tyres, or other component parts which, in the ordinary course of business, are usually imported therewith, the Minister may, at his discretion, require that body duty shall be paid as if such engines, tyres, or other component parts had been imported with such vehicles.
397 Paints, colours, varnishes, and similar materials, viz.:-
Ex. 407 (4) Preparations for removing paint and varnish 20 per cent. ad val.
(1) Sashes, wooden, plain or glazed 25 per cent. ad val.
(2) Doors, wooden, plain or glazed 30 per cent. ad val., or 4s. per door, whichever rate returns the higher duty.
431 Gelatine, glue, isinglass, and size 20 per cent. ad val., or 2d. per lb., whichever rate returns the higher duty.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of May, 1933. J. G. COATES, Minister of Customs.

Extension to New Zealand of Convention between the United Kingdom and Estonia respecting Legal Proceedings in Civil and Commercial Matters.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th May, 1933.

It is hereby notified for general information that the Convention between the United Kingdom and Estonia regarding Legal Proceedings in Civil and Commercial Matters, signed at London on the 22nd day of December, 1931, and in respect of which ratifications were exchanged at Tallinn on the 18th day of August, 1932, has been extended to the Dominion of New Zealand, pursuant to the provisions of Article 16 of the said Convention, as from the 14th day of March, 1933.

The authority to which requests for service or for the taking of evidence are to be transmitted is the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and communications should be addressed to the Registrar of the Supreme Court at Wellington in the English language.

The text of the said Convention is set out hereunder.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

CONVENTION.

CONVENTION BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY, IN RESPECT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND THE CHIEF OF STATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA, REGARDING LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL MATTERS.

London, 22nd December, 1931.

[Ratifications exchanged at Tallinn, August 18th, 1932.]

His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and the Chief of State of the Republic of Estonia,

Being desirous to render mutual assistance in the conduct of legal proceedings in civil and commercial matters which are being dealt with or which it is anticipated may be dealt with by their respective judicial authorities,

Have resolved to conclude a Convention for this purpose, and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries—

His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India :

For Great Britain and Northern Ireland :

The Right Honourable Sir John Allsebrook Simon, G.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., O.B.E., K.C., M.P., His Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ;

And the Chief of State of the Republic of Estonia :

Doctor Oskar Kallas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Estonia in London ;

Who, having communicated their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows :—

I.—PRELIMINARY.

ARTICLE 1.

(a) This Convention applies only to civil and commercial matters, including non-contentious matters.

(b) In this Convention the words—

(1) “Territory of one (or of the other) High Contracting Party” shall be interpreted as meaning at any time any of the territories of such High Contracting Party to which the Convention at that time applies ;

(2) “Persons” shall be deemed to mean individuals and artificial persons ;

(3) “Artificial persons” shall be deemed to include partnerships, companies, societies, and other corporations ;



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🏭 Duty on Goods produced or manufactured in Australia (continued from previous page)

🏭 Trade, Customs & Industry
17 May 1933
Customs duty, Tariff, Australia, Import, Goods, Motor-vehicles, Paints, Colours, Varnishes, Sashes, Doors, Gelatine, Glue, Isinglass, Size
  • J. G. Coates, Minister of Customs

🌏 Extension of Convention between the United Kingdom and Estonia

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
12 May 1933
Legal Proceedings, Civil and Commercial Matters, Convention, United Kingdom, Estonia, Supreme Court, Service of Process, Evidence
  • John G. Cobbe, Minister of Justice