1Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Products Interim Levy Imposition (Excise) Act 1994

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Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical
Products Interim Levy Imposition
(Excise) Act 1994

No. 75 of 1994

An Act to impose the levy payable under the Agricultural
and Veterinary Chemical Products (Collection of
Interim Levy) Act 1994, so far as that levy is a duty of excise

[Assented to 21 June 1994]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Products Interim Levy Imposition (Excise) Act 1994.

Commencement

2.(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the same day as the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Products (Collection of Interim Levy) Act 1994.

(2) If the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Products (Collection of Interim Levy) Act 1994 is repealed by subsection 2(2) of that Act, this Act is repealed on the same day as that Act.

Imposition

3.(1) The levy that is payable under the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Products (Collection of Interim Levy) Act 1994 is imposed by this section.

(2) This section imposes the levy only so far as the levy is a duty of excise within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.

Act does not impose levy on property of a State

4.(1) This Act does not impose a levy on property of any kind belonging to a State.

(2) In this section, “property of any kind belonging to a State” has the same meaning as in section 114 of the Constitution.

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[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 12 May 1994

Senate on 1 June 1994]