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The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Excise Amendment (Compliance Improvement) Bill 2000
No. , 2000
(Treasury)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Excise Act 1901 , and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedule(s)......................................................................................... 1
4............ Regulations......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Excise Act 1901 3
Schedule 2—Transitional provisions 48
A Bill for an Act to amend the Excise Act 1901, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Excise Amendment (Compliance Improvement) Act 2000 .
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
4 Regulations
(1) The Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
(2) In particular, regulations may be made:
(a) for matters of a transitional, saving or application nature arising from the amendments made by this Act; and
(b) to require a person, being a person who is the holder of a manufacturer licence, storage licence, producer licence or dealer licence under Part IV of the Excise Act 1901 (as amended by this Act) because of Schedule 2 to this Act, to provide information of the kind relevant to that Part; and
(c) to create offences and to provide for a maximum penalty, not exceeding 10 penalty units for a natural person and 50 penalty units for a body corporate, in respect of each offence.