Beer Excise

No. 19 of 1968

An Act to amend the Beer Excise Act 1901-1966 in relation to the establishment of a Collectorate of Customs in the Northern Territory.

[Assented to 16 May 1968]

[Date of commencement, 13 June 1968]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Beer Excise Act 1968.

(2.) The Beer Excise Act 1901—1966 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Beer Excise Act 1901-1968.

Definitions.

2. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the definition of “Collector” the words “the State” and inserting in their stead the words “a State or Territory of the Commonwealth”.

First Schedule.

3. The First Schedule to the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting the words—

“To the Collector,

State of ”

and inserting in their stead the words—

“To the Collector for ”; and

(b) by omitting the words “in the State of”.

Second Schedule.

4. The Second Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “the State of”.