Excise
No. 15 of 1968
An Act to amend the Excise Act 1901-1966 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
tills and citation.
1.—(1.) This
Act may be cited as the Excise Act 1968.
(2.) The Excise
Act 1901-1966 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act,
may be cited as the Excise Act 1901-1968.
Definitions.
2.Section
4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the definition of “Collector”
the words “the State” and inserting in their stead the words “a State or
Territory of the Commonwealth”.
General
Power of Collector.
3. Section
12 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (2.).
4.After
section 12 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—
Attachment
of part of a State or Territory to adjoining State or Territory for
administrative purposes.
“12a. Where
there is in force for the time being a Proclamation under section eight a of the Customs Act 1901-1968 declaring that, for the purposes of the
administration of the Customs, a part of a State or a part of a Territory of
the Commonwealth specified in the Proclamation is attached to an adjoining
State or an adjoining Territory of the Commonwealth so specified, the part of
the State or Territory so specified shall, for the purposes of this Act, be
deemed to be part of the adjoining State or Territory.”.
Schedule
II.
5. Schedule
II. to the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words—
“To
the Collector of Customs, State
of ” and inserting in their stead the words—
“To
the Collector of Customs for ”.
Schedule
III.
6.Schedule
III. to the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “the State of”.
Schedule
V.
7. Schedule
V. to the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “the State of”.
Schedule
VII.
8.