THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

NO. 191

DETERMINATION OF THE MINISTER OF CUSTOMS UNDER SECTION 12) OF THE CUSTOMS ACT 1986

(1) The goods listed in Column Two of this Notice may be entered as unassembled motor vehicles (tariff items 87.02.002, 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 ten or more seated persons (including the driver).

(4) This Determination shall come into force on 1 November 1985 and may be amended from time to time by notice in the Gazette.

(5) The Determination in the following Gazette is revoked on 1 November 1985 but shall at all times after revocation continue to apply to goods entered during its currency:

Gazette No. 130 of 11 July 1985 at page 2998-3000.

(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 3,500 kg.

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

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

(iii) Cabs built up

| | These goods (except the engine and gearbox) may be built up into a ‘frame’ and the engine and gear box 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.
| | 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 pyroxylin 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. 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.
| | The cabs must be entered for home consumption prior to 30 April 1986 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 I of the Customs Tariff:

• Air dams excluding those which form an integral part of the vehicle body or an integral part of the bumper;
• Battery cables and earth straps;
• Brake hoses;
• Driveshafts excluding transaxles for front wheel drive applications only;
• Electric batteries;
• Exhaust systems (comprising piping and mufflers);
• Exterior rear vision mirrors excluding those which are an integral part of the vehicle design or are electrically or manually internally adjusted; and excluding electrically heated rear vision mirrors
• Glass, curved or flat;
• Horns;
• Hub caps, hubcentres, full wheel covers, wheel bands and discs and wheel rimbellishers;
• Ignition coils;
• Interior trim components of hardboard, cardboard or similar materials, leather and plastic sheetings; viz:
  • Armrests and door-pulls of unharband vulcanised rubber or artificial plastic materials excluding those integrally moulded into door panels;
  • Door panels excluding base boards moulded to shape and excluding fittings of moulded artificial plastic materials and attaching hardware;
  • Floor coverings, cut fabricated or moulded to shape excluding those moulded from plastic or rubber;
  • Head restraints excluding adjustable mechanisms and minor plastic attachments;
  • Rear parcel trays other than those moulded or fabricated to shape;
  • Seat belts;
  • Seat frame and spring frame assemblies including springs therefor;
  • Seat reclining mechanisms;
  • Sunvisors and covers including arms and fixing brackets;
  • Upholsterers’ materials (such as flock, wadding, batting, fluting, linters, felts padding and foams) cut, moulded or fabricated to shape;
  • Upholsterers’ textiles, fabrics, leathers or plastic sheeting, cut, moulded or fabricated to shape;
• Laminated undercarriage springs (not including shackles therefor);
• Melt sheets cut to shape excluding moulded expanding types;
• Pneumatic rubber tyres and inner tubes of rubber;
• Radiator assemblies including pressure caps;
• Radio broadcast receivers designed for use in motor vehicles;
• Spark plugs;