Canned Fruit Excise

No. 17 of 1968

An Act to amend the Canned Fruit Excise Act 1963-1966 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 Canned Fruit Excise Act 1968.

(2.) The Canned Fruit Excise Act 1963-1966 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Canned Fruit Excise Act 1963-1968.

Definitions.

2. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in the definition of “Collector”, after the word “State”, the words “or Territory of the Commonwealth,”.

Producers to keep books.

3. Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after the word “State” the words “or Territory of the Commonwealth”.

Return of existing stocks of canned fruit.

4. Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after the word “State” the words “or Territory of the Commonwealth”.