Excise Tariff Amendment Act 1996
No. 5, 1996
An Act to amend the Excise Tariff Act 1921
[Assented to 6 June 1996]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Excise Tariff Amendment Act 1996.
2 Commencement
(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Item 2 of Schedule 1 is taken to have commenced on 1 July 1983.
3. Schedule(s)
Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1— Amendment of the Excise Tariff Act 1921
1 Subsection 6A (2)
After “him”, insert “or her”.
2 Subsection 6B (1), (definition of prescribed division)
Repeal the definition, substitute:
prescribed division, in relation to a financial year, means one of 36 divisions in that year made up of:
(a) 3 divisions each of 10 days for the months of September, November, April and June; and
(b) 2 divisions each of 10 days and a third of 11 days for the months of July, August, October, December, January, March and May; and
(c) 2 divisions each of 10 days and a third of 8 or 9 days, as the case requires, for the month of February.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 1 May 1996
Senate on 9 May 1996]