2998
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 130

Determinaton of the Minister of Customs Under Section 121 of the Customs Act 1966

(1) The goods listed in Column Two of this notice may be entered as unassembled motor vehicles (tariff items 87.01.002, 87.02.022, 87.02.028, 87.04.012 and 87.04.018) provided they are no further manufactured than specified in Column Three. None of the parts entered in these Tariff items shall be used otherwise than in the assembly, completion or manufacture, from the one shipment of parts, of one or more motor vehicles. Separate goods and conditions are determined in this notice for each of the classes of vehicle identified in Column One.

(2) The Minister may allow goods to be entered at variance with this Determination and may make any such variation conditional.

(3) For the purpose of this Determination an ‘omnibus’ means a motor vehicle designed solely or principally for the carriage of 10 or more seated persons (including the driver).

(4) This Determination shall come into force on 1 August 1985 and may be amended from time-to-time by notice in the Gazette. If practicable, 3 months notice of major amendments will be given.

(5) The Determinations listed in the following Gazettes are revoked on 1 August 1985 but shall at all times after revocation continue to apply to goods entered during their currency:
Gazette No. 232 of 13 December 1984 at pages 5710–5711.
Gazette No. 24 of 14 February 1985 at page 536.
Gazette No. 85 of 9 May 1985 at page 2091.

Column One Column Two Column Three
Classes of Motor Vehicles Goods Condition in which such Goods
Shall be Imported

(A) Class I:
Motor vehicles (other than omnibuses), being sedans, station wagons, utilities, vans capable of carrying passengers and goods or a combination of passengers and goods, chassis/cabs, providing that the gross vehicle weight of such vehicles does not exceed 3500 kg

(i) Chassis, consisting of:
A metal underbody, side members, end members, cross members, sub-frame, tank supports, brackets for fixing engine, spring-brackets, engine, and gearbox.

These goods (except the engine and gearbox) may be built up into a ‘frame’ and the engine and gearbox may be fully assembled and attached to a frame. The frame must not be further assembled but such other minor fittings, for example, stays, lugs, and brackets as are ordinarily affixed to the frame may be so affixed.

(ii) Bodies, the following parts:
Panels, and framework (if any)

May be built up into the form of a ‘shell’, with doors attached thereto. The shell may have a coat of grease, oil, red oxide, or similar protective coating, not including cellulose or pyroxylm or similar lacquer. The shell shall not be advanced in manufacture beyond the stage where the necessary welding processes have been performed; for example, the seams shall not be soldered, filled or smoothed.

The shell may not be attached to the model underbody or frame or to parts affixed thereto as referred to in (i) above but may, subject to the foregoing restrictions, be imported in such condition as the importer elects.

(iii) Cabs built up

The cabs must be entered for home consumption prior to 31 December 1985 and may be imported in fully finished condition provided they are entered under tariff item 87.05.011 of the Customs Tariff and pay the rates of duty applying under that item.

The components nominated below, if imported to be used in the assembly, completion or manufacture of Class I motor vehicles, must be entered in accordance with the appropriate tariff item in Part 1 of the Customs Tariff:

Airdams.
Arm rests.
Battery; cables and earth straps.
Brake hoses and cables.
Coiled suspension springs.
Driveshafts.
Electric batteries (accumulators).
Exhaust systems (comprising piping and mufflers).
Exterior rear vision mirrors.
Floor coverings—cut, fabricated or moulded to shape.
Glass, curved or flat.
Head restraints.
Horns.
Hub caps, hub centres, full wheel covers, wheel trim bands and discs and wheel trim rimbillishers.
Ignition coils.
Interior trim components of hardboard, cardboard or similar materials, leather and plastic sheetings.
Laminated undercarriage springs (not including shackles therefor).
Melt sheets cup to shape.
Pneumatic rubber tyres and inner tubes of rubber.
Radiator assemblies including pressure caps.
Seat belts.
Seat frame and spring frame assemblies (including seat reclining mechanisms).
Seat springs.
Spark plugs.
Spoilers.
Sun visors and covers including arms and fixing brackets.
Upholsterers’ materials (such as flock, wadding, batting, fluting, linters, padding, foams) cut, moulded or fabricated to shape.
Upholsterers’ textiles, fabrics, leathers or plastic sheetings, cut, moulded or fabricated to shape.
Wireless broadcast receiver sets suited or designed for use in motor vehicles.
Wiring looms, or harnesses.
Wheels of magnesium, aluminium alloys, chrome or decorative steel wheels, whether one piece construction or composite.