Beer Duty Act 1880 Amendment Act 1886
Beer Duty Act 1880 Amendment Act 1886
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Beer Duty Act 1880 Amendment Act 1886
Beer Duty Act 1880 Amendment Act 1886
Public Act |
1886 No 41 |
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Date of assent |
17 August 1886 |
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Contents
An Act to amend “The Beer Duty Act, 1880.”
Preamble.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend “The Beer Duty Act, 1880”
(hereinafter called “the said Act”
):
Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
The Short Title of this Act is “The Beer Duty Act 1880 Amendment Act, 1886.”
2 Brewers not required to take out wholesale license for sale of beer of their own brewing.
A license issued to any brewer under the said Act shall entitle such brewer to sell, in quantities of not less than two gallons, beer brewed at his brewery, without it being necessary for him to take out a wholesale or other license under any other Act or Ordinance; but a license issued under the said Act shall only entitle the holder thereof to sell beer, in casks of the prescribed sizes, at his brewery or other place in which beer may be legally stored prior to the duty being paid thereon, or to sell beer in bottle at his bottling store, which store shall not be situated on his brewery premises, but which shall be situated within the licensing district in which his brewery is situate.
3 Bulk beer only to be sold in stamped casks.
No persons shall sell or deliver for sale or consumption any beer in bulk other than in stamped casks of the prescribed sizes.
4 Amendment of section 18 of Act of 1880.
The following addition shall be made to the eighteenth section of the said Act, namely, in the fourth line thereof, after the word “affixed,”
the following words shall be inserted, “as required by this Act.”
5 Stamps on casks of less than proper duty deemed to be fraudulent stamps.
Any brewer who affixes a stamp to any cask of beer of larger content than the quantity denoted on such stamp shall be liable to the penalty specified in the seventeenth section of the said Act.
6 Business of cordial manufacturing, &c., or bottling not to be carried on in brewery.
After the expiration of one year from the passing of this Act no person shall carry on the business of a cordial aërated water or ginger-beer manufacturer, or of bottling liquors of any kind, in a brewery, and if any brewer or other person carries on, or aids or assists in carrying on, any such business in a brewery, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.
7 Commissioner may direct Collectors to suspend licenses.
The Commissioner may direct and require any Collector to suspend the license of any brewer who shall hereafter be convicted of any offence under the said Act for a period not exceeding six months.
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Beer Duty Act 1880 Amendment Act 1886
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