EXCISE TARIFF VALIDATION.

No. 7 of 1917.

An Act to provide for the Validation of Collections of Duties of Excise under Tariff proposals.

[Assented to 19th March, 1917.]

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

Short title and citation.

1. This Act may be cited as the Excise Tariff Validation Act 1917.

Definition.

2. In this Act “Tariff proposals” means the proposed Duties of Excise introduced into the House of Representatives on the third day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

Validation of collections under Tariff proposals.

3. All Duties of Excise demanded or collected (whether before or after the dissolution or expiry of the present House of Representatives) pursuant to the Tariff proposals to which this Act applies shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.