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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 197

DETERMINATION 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 ten or
more seated persons (including the driver).

(4) This Determination shall come into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette and may be amended from
time-to-time by notice in the Gazette.

(5) The Determination in the following Gazette is hereby revoked but shall at all times after revocation continue to apply to goods
entered during its currency:
Supplement No. 91 of 12 June 1886
at page 2552-2554.

Column One
Classes of Motor Vehicles

Column Two
Goods

Column Three
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 3,500 kg.

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

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.

(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
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. 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.

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:
Airdams 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;
Electric accumulators;
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 trim 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 unhardened 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;
• Headlinings other than those moulded to shape;
• Rear parcel trays other than those moulded 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 (excluding moulded resin bonded felt);
• Upholsterers’ textiles, fabrics, leathers or plastic sheeting, cut, moulded or fabricated to shape;
  Laminated and leaf undercarriage springs (not including shackles therefor):
  Melt sheets cut to shape;
  Pneumatic rubber tyres and inner tubes of rubber;
  Radiator assemblies including pressure caps;
  Spark plugs;
  Spoilers of unhardened vulcanised rubber or artificial plastic materials;
  Springs, coiled suspension; excluding frustoconical coil springs;
  Tonneau covers manufactured from upholsterers’ textiles, fabrics, leathers,
  or plastic sheeting cut or fabricated to shape
  Wiring, looms or harnesses;
  Wheels of aluminium alloys.