1Excise Tariff Validation Act 1954

EXCISE TARIFF VALIDATION.

No. 73 of 1954.

An Act to provide for the Validation of Collections of Duties of Excise under Excise Tariff Proposals.

[Assented to 12th November, 1954.]

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 title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Excise Tariff Validation Act 1954.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Validation of collections under Excise Tariff Proposals.

3. All duties of Excise demanded or collected (whether before or after the commencement of this Act and on or before the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-five) pursuant to—

(a) Excise Tariff Proposals No. 1 introduced into the House of Representatives on the eighteenth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four; or

(b) Excise Tariff Proposals No. 2 introduced into the House of Representatives on the twenty-eighth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four,

shall be deemed to have been lawfully imposed and lawfully demanded or collected.