This Act may be cited as the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1989, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Sale of Liquor Act 1962.

Sections 17 to 23 of the principal Act are hereby repealed.

Notwithstanding anything in the Licensing Fund Act 1989, and notwithstanding the repeal of section 21 of the principal Act by subsection (1) of this section, any payment approved under that section by the Minister of Justice but not made before the 31st day of July 1989 for any purpose specified in subsection (1)(c) of that section may be made by the Secretary for Justice in all respects as if neither the Licensing Fund Act 1989 nor this Act had been passed.

The following enactments are hereby consequentially repealed:

Section 286(2) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 2(2) of the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1986) is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (e), and substituting the following paragraph:

Section 286 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing subsection (2c)(as so substituted), and substituting the following subsection:

Notwithstanding anything in section 286a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 3(1) of the Sale of Liquor Amendment Act 1967), no fee shall be payable under that section in respect of any period commencing on or after the 1st day of October 1989.

In respect of every tavernkeeper’s licence or airport licence in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, subsections (8) to (21) of section 286a of the principal Act (as so inserted) shall apply as if the period beginning with the 1st day of July 1989 and ending with the 30th day of September 1989 were the licence period within the meaning of that section.

If, before the commencement of this Act, any amount by way of fee under section 286a of the principal Act (as so inserted) has been paid in respect of any period commencing on or after the 1st day of October 1989, that amount shall be treated, for the purposes of calculating any refund payable to the licensee under subsection (11)(b) of that section and for all other purposes, as if it had been paid in respect of the period commencing on the 1st day of July 1989 and ending with the 30th day of September 1989.

For the purposes of this section, the term “relevant period” means the period commencing with the 1st day of April 1989 and ending with the 31st day of July 1989.

Within 3 months after the commencement of this Act, the Commission shall prepare a proper statement of the accounts of the Licensing Fund for the relevant period and of its balance sheet at the end of that period.

The accounts shall be audited by the Audit Office, and for that purpose—

Within 10 days after the completion of the audit of the accounts by the Audit Office, the Commission shall forward the statement of accounts and balance sheet of the Licensing Fund to the Minister, together with such report as the Commission thinks fit, and the Minister shall lay the accounts and report before the House of Representatives within 12 sitting days after receiving them from the Commission.

This Act shall expire with the close of the 31st day of March 1990.