Spirits Duties Temporary Reduction Act 1845 No 20a (NSW)

No. XX.

An Act to reduce for a limited time the Duties on Spirits imported into or distilled in the Colony of New South Wales. [8th Novem­ ber, 1845.]

WHEREAS it is expedient that for a limited time the Duties on
Spirits imported into or distilled in the said Colony should be lowered Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof That from and after the passing of this Act the several Duties now chargeable and payable upon Spirits imported into or distilled in the said Colony or its Dependencies shall cease and determine and that in place thereof the following Duties shall during the continuance of
this Act be respectively charged and paid upon all such Spirits that is
to say—If the Duty now payable be at the rate of twelve shillings per imperial gallon of the strength of hydrometer proof a Duty shall be chargeable at the rate of six shillings for every such gallon and if the Duty now payable be at the rate of nine shillings for every such gallon a Duty shall be chargeable at the rate of three shillings and sixpence
for every such gallon and so in proportion respectively for all such
Spirits of greater or less strength.
2. And be it enacted That the provisions of this Act shall be

deemed and construed to apply equally to Spirits in any bonded store

on the same being entered for home consumption as to Spirits imported
into the Colony and Spirits distilled within the same during the

continuance of this Act.

3. And be it enacted That this Act shall commence and take

effect from and after the passing thereof and shall thenceforward
continue in force until the first day of January one thousand eight

hundred and forty-eight and no longer.