Distillation Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 1731

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Distillation Regulations2(Amendment)

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Distillation Act 1901.

 Dated 25 June 1981.

 STANLEY BURBURY

 Administrator

 By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN MOORE

Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs

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Repeal of headings

 1. The headings in the Distillation Regulations from and including “Short Title” to and including “REPEAL” are repealed.

 2. The Distillation Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 115 the following regulations:

Application for experimenter’s licence

“116.

An application for an experimenter’s licence shall be in accordance with Form 1.

Security—application for experimenter’s licence

“117.

The security required to be given by section 18 of the Act in respect of an application for an experimenter’s licence shall be in accordance with the following scale, namely, not less than $10 and not more than $1000 as the Collector determines.

Form of experimenter’s licence

“118.

An experimenter’s licence shall be in accordance with Form 2.

Number of experimenters’ licences

“119.

The number of experimenters’ licences that may be in force at any one time is 50.”.

Schedule

 3. The Schedule to the Distillation Regulations is amended—

• (a)

  by omitting from Form 1—

  “Spirit Maker’s General

  Wine Distiller’s

  Vigneron’s”

 and substituting—

“Spirit Maker’s General

Wine Distiller’s

Vigneron’s

Experimenter’s”;

• (b)

  by inserting after Form 1 the following form:

 

FORM 2

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Distillation Act 1901

Regulation 118 EXPERIMENTER’S LICENCE

This licence is issued to

 and, subject to the Distillation Act 1901 and to the Distillation Regulations, authorizes him to distil spirits from any material for the purpose of research into the production or use of fuel ethanol (being denatured ethanol for use as a fuel in internal combustion engines), including research relating to the development of technology for such production or use.

 Unless previously cancelled, this licence shall remain in force until 31 December 19 , but may be renewed in accordance with section 22 of that Act.

Dated this

 day of   19 .

Collector of Customs

for the State of

Further amendments

 4. The Distillation Regulations are amended as set out in the Schedule.

SCHEDULE Regulation 4

FURTHER AMENDMENTS OF THE DISTILLATION REGULATIONS

 

Provision amended	Amendment
Regulation 2	Omit “The application”, substitute “An application for a spirit maker’s licence”.
Sub-regulation 3 (1)	Insert “spirit maker’s” after “A”.
Sub-regulation 4 (1)	Insert “required to be given by section 18 of the Act in respect of an application for a spirit maker’s licence” after “security”.
Sub-regulation 4 (2)	Insert “referred to in sub-regulation (1)” after “security”.
Regulation 94	Insert “vigneron’s” after “a”.
Sub-regulation 95 (1)	Insert “vigneron’s” after “A”.
Sub-regulation 96 (1)	Insert “required to be given by section 18 of the Act in respect of an application for a vigneron’s licence” after “security”.
Sub-regulation 96 (2)	Insert “referred to in sub-regulation (1)” after “security”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 June 1981.

2. Statutory Rules 1926 No. 206 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1981 No. 165 and see also