Colonial Spirits Duty Act of 1887 No 17a (NSW)

No. VI.

An Act to increase the Duties on Colonial

Spirits. [8th July, 1887.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative	Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the
authority of the same as follows :—
1. In lieu of the duties now chargeable on Spirits manufactured in New South Wales including all such Spirits now in bond there shall be taken and levied on all kinds of Spirits so manufactured the strength of which can be ascertained by Sykes' Hydrometer fourteen shillings the proof gallon.
2. Every person who shall on or before the passing of this Act have made or entered into any contract or agreement for the sale or delivery upon or at any time after the twenty-ninth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven of any Colonial made Spirits whereupon any additional duty shall be payable under the provisions
of this Act shall be at liberty to add to the price contracted for so
much money as will be equivalent to the additional duty which shall
by reason of such provisions have been paid or made payable on such Spirits and shall be entitled by virtue of this Act to be paid the same
accordingly by the purchaser of such Spirits and to sue for and recover the same against such purchaser Provided that in every case where the price contracted for shall be so added to it shall be at the option
of such purchaser by notice in writing under his hand to be served
on the other party to such contract within fourteen days after the passing of this Act to declare the contract null and void and the same shall be null and void accordingly.
3. This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the thirtieth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven and may be cited as the " Colonial Spirits Duty Act of 1887" and from and after such day the " Colonial Spirits Duty Act of 1879" (forty- third Victoria number seventeen) shall be deemed to have been repealed so far as it authorizes the levying of a duty on spirits manu­ factured in the said Colony. No. V I I .