This Part of this Act and Schedule 1 to this Act shall be read together with and deemed part of the Customs Act 1966 (in this Part referred to as the principal Act).

(1) Schedule 3 to the principal Act (as substituted by section 4(1) of the Customs Amendment Act 1989) is hereby amended by inserting, after Note 3 at the beginning of the Schedule, the following Note:

(2) The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing so much of Schedule 3 (as substituted by section 4(1) of the Customs Amendment Act 1989) as relates to Excise item numbers 99.60.16D, 99.60.30K, 99.60.40G, 99.65.10G, 99.65.20D, 99.65.30A, 99.65.40J, 99.65.45K, and 99.65.70L, and substituting the Excise item numbers and rates of duty specified in Schedule 1 to this Act.

(3) The Excise Duty (Tobacco Products Indexation) Amendment Order (No 2) 1995 (SR 1995/264) is hereby consequentially revoked.

This Part of this Act and Schedule 2 to this Act shall be read together with and deemed part of the Tariff Act 1988 (in this Part referred to as the principal Act).

(1) Schedule 1 to the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in the list of terms, abbreviations, and symbols in Note 2 at the beginning of the Tariff, after the item kPa, the following item:

(2) Schedule 1 to the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing so much of Part I as relates to Tariff items 2402.10.00, 2402.20.02, 2402.20.08, 2403.10.01, 2403.10.09, 2403.91.01, 2403.91.09, 2403.99.01, and 2403.99.29, and substituting the items, rates of duty, and statistical keys specified in Schedule 2 to this Act.

(3) The Tariff (Tobacco Products Indexation) Amendment Order (No 2) 1995 (SR 1995/265) is hereby consequentially revoked.

(1) In this section,—

(2) Notwithstanding that the specified persons were not appointed as members of each Tribunal in accordance with the Act for the relevant period, the specified persons are hereby deemed to have been on the 15th day of October 1992 lawfully appointed—

• (a) under section 47(1)(b) of the Act as members of the Clinical Dental Technicians Disciplinary Tribunal; and

• (b) under section 48(1)(b) of the Act as members of the Dental Technicians Disciplinary Tribunal—

for a term beginning on that day and ending with the expiry of the relevant period.

(3) The validity of—

• (a) every purported meeting of a Tribunal held during the relevant period; and

• (b) every action and decision of a Tribunal taken during the relevant period—

shall be determined having regard to subsection (2) of this section.

(1) In this section,—

(2) Notwithstanding that Gillian Grew was not appointed as a member of the Council in accordance with the Act for the relevant period, Gillian Grew is hereby deemed to have been on the 1st day of July 1993 lawfully appointed under section 4(1)(a) of the Act as a member of the Council for a term beginning on that day and ending with the expiry of the relevant period.

(3) The Act shall apply as if, during the relevant period,—

• (a) the Act had contained a provision—

  • (i) providing for the Director-General of Health to authorise a nurse employed in the Ministry of Health to attend any meeting of the Council in place of the person holding office as a member of the Council under section 4(1)(a) of the Act, if that member was unable to attend that meeting; and

  • (ii) providing that while any person was attending any meeting of the Council pursuant to that provision, that person was deemed for all purposes to be a member of the Council; and

  • (iii) providing that the fact that any person was so attending any such meeting was sufficient evidence of that person's authority so to do in the absence of proof to the contrary; and

• (b) Pamela Messervy had been authorised, pursuant to that provision, to attend meetings of the Council in place of Gillian Grew.

(4) Notwithstanding that Pamela Messervy was not appointed, in accordance with the Act, as a member of the Council or the Preliminary Proceedings Committee for the relevant period, Pamela Messervy is hereby deemed, in respect of every meeting of the Preliminary Proceedings Committee attended by her during the relevant period, to have been on the 1st day of July 1993 lawfully appointed—

• (a) under section 4(1)(a) of the Act as a member of the Council; and

• (b) under section 12(2) of the Act as a member of the Preliminary Proceedings Committee—

for a term beginning on that day and ending with the expiry of the relevant period.

(5) The validity of—

• (a) every purported meeting of—

  • (i) the Council:

  • (ii) the Preliminary Proceedings Committee:

  • (iii) a committee—

  held during the relevant period; and

• (b) every action and decision of—

  • (i) the Council:

  • (ii) the Preliminary Proceedings Committee:

  • (iii) a committee—

  taken during the relevant period; and

• (c) every action and decision of the chairman or deputy chairman of the Council taken pursuant to section 5(6) of the Act during the relevant period; and

• (d) every action and decision of the convenor of the Preliminary Proceedings Committee taken during the relevant period—

shall be determined having regard to subsections (2) to (4) of this section.

This Part of this Act shall be read together with and deemed part of the Maritime Transport Act 1994 (in this Part referred to as the principal Act).

Section 204(2) of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in paragraph (a), after the words “maritime rule”, the words “or regulation”.