Licensing Act Amendment Act (No. 3) 1956 (WA)

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LICENSING (No. 3).

5° Elizabeth II., No. XXIV.

No. 24 of 1956.

AN ACT to amend the Licensing Act, 1911-1955.

[Assented to 21st November, 1956.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Licensing Act Amendment Act (No. 3), 1956. and citation.

(2) In this Act, the Licensing Act, 1911-1955,

Act No. 32 of 1911 as reprinted with amend- Rep e

ments to and including Act No. 76 of 1953 ttlfitved for

incorporated pursuant to the provisions of the mat

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Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, and as further amended by Acts Nos. 73 of 1954, and 55 and 58 of 1955,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Licensing Act, 1911-1956.

8.73 am. 2. Section seventy-three of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by adding after the word, "return" in the seventh last line of subsection (1), the passage, ", to and including the return for the six months ended on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six,";
(b)	by adding after the word, "license" being the last word in subsection (1), the passage, ", and with the return furnished for the six months ending on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, and with the return for each six months thereafter, shall so pay as such moiety a sum equal to eight and one-third pounds per centum instead of six pounds per centum, of the amount so paid or payable, less one half of that minimum annual fee";
(c)	by adding after the word, "return" in line fourteen of subsection (2), the passage, ", to and including the return for the six months ended on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six,";
(d)	by adding after the word, "elsewhere" being the last word in subsection (2), the passage, ", and with the return for the six months ending on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, and with the return for each six months thereafter, shall so pay as such

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moiety in addition to such minimum fee a sum equal to eight and one-third pounds per centum instead of five pounds per centum, of the amount so received, exclud- ing such duties,";

(e)	by adding after the word, "return" in line thirteen of subsection (3), the passage, ", to and including the return for the six months ended on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six,";
(f)	by adding after the word, "thereon" in the fourth and fifth last lines of subsection (3), the passage, "and with the return for the six months ending on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, and with the return for each six months thereafter, shall so pay as such moiety in addition to such minimum fee a sum equal to eight and one-third pounds per centum instead of five pounds per centum, of the amount so paid or payable, excluding such duties"; and
(g)	by substituting for the word, "less" in the third last line of subsection (4), the passage, "where and to the extent that the amount (excluding such duties) has been so paid or is so payable by the holder of the license for liquor so purchased on or before the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six; or equal to eight and one-third pounds per centum instead of five pounds per centum of that amount, where and to the extent that the amount has been paid or is payable for liquor so purchased after that day, less in every case".

3. Section two hundred and one of the principal S. 201 am.

Act is amended by adding after the word, "thereof" in line eleven of subsection (1), the passage, "where and to the extent that the amount (excluding such duties and cost of carriage) has been paid or

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is payable for liquor so purchased on or before the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five, or at a per centage of eight and one-third pounds per centum instead of five pounds per centum on the amount where and to the extent that the amount (excluding such duties and cost of carriage) has been paid or is payable for liquor so purchased after that day".