Beer Excise Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES. 1943. No. 228. REGULATION UNDER THE BEER EXCISE ACT 1901-1928.* I , THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Beer Excise Act 1901-1928. Dated this eighth day of September, 1943. (SGD.) GOWRIE Governor-General. By His Excellency’s Command, Minister of State for Trade and Customs. Amendment of the Beer Excise Regulations. † After regulation 33 of the Beer Excise Regulations the following regulation is inserted:— Licensee Fees. “34.—(1.) The annual fees for licences shall, except where a lesser licence is surrendered for a larger licence, be as follows:— For every brewery wherein beer is brewed in quantities not exceeding in any one year— Per annum. £ 50,000 gallons ............................................... 25 Exceeding 50,000 gallons but not exceeding 150,000 gallons ................ 50 Exceeding 150,000 gallons but not exceeding 375,000 gallons ............... 75 Exceeding 375,000 gallons but not exceeding 750,000 gallons ............... 100 Exceeding 750,000 gallons but not exceeding 1,500,000 gallons .............. 125 Exceeding 1,500,000 gallons but not exceeding 3,000,000 gallons ............. 150 Exceeding 3,000,000 gallons but not exceeding 6,000,000 gallons ............. 175 Exceeding 6,000,000 gallons but not exceeding 12,000,000 gallons ............ 200 Exceeding 12,000,000 gallons .................................... 250 * Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1943. † Statutory Rules 1926, No. 184, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, No. 18; 1929, No. 119; and 1936, No. 61. 3567. —Price 3d. 25/10.6.1943. “(2.) The fee shall be computed as from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December and when, by reason of the time of the granting of the licence, it will not continue for a full year, the amount of the fee shall be reduced proportionately. “(3.) Where a lesser licence is surrendered for a larger licence, the amount to be paid for the larger licence shall be an amount ascertained by deducting, from the fee which would have been payable if the licence were a licence to which sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation applies, the amount actually paid in cash for the lesser licence and for any previous lesser licence surrendered during the same year, and adding thereto an amount equal to the amount of the credit referred to in section 23 of the Excise Act 1901-1942.”. By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.