ACT No. vn or 1996 An ACTto amend the Excise Duty Act, 1995 BE IT ENACfED by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

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Urn MIFSUD BONNleL

President

21th February, 1996

ACT No. vn or 1996

An ACTto amend the Excise Duty Act, 1995

BE IT ENACfED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

I. (I) This Act may be cited at the Excise Duty (Amendment) ShoTt .id. ond

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Act, 1996 and shall be read and construed as one with the Excise Duty

A<;t No XVI of

Act, 1995, hereinafter referred 10 as "the principal Ac!.

1995. (2)

This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on

the 81h January 1996.

Immediately after subsection (4) of section 13 oflhe principal AmcOO""'''' of

sec.;on 13 of the

Act there shall be added the following new subsection

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"(5) It shall be lawful for the Minister to make by order in

the Gazette such amendments in the Schedules to this Ac t as may

become necessary from time to time to ensure that the Customs

Tariff Headings unde r which the respective excise goods are

classified confonn with the Hannonized Commodity Description

and Coding System 1983, as adopted and published by the Customs

Co-operation Council

Provided that this authority shall not extend to cases in

which its application results in a duty being prescribed in respect

of any new article or in an increase in the rate of dlllY prescribed in

respect of any anicle.".

In the First Column of the First Schedule to the principal Act,

for the words "in Customs Tariff Headi ngs Nos 22.04, 22!J7 and 22.08"

there shall be substituted the words "in Customs Tariff Headings Nos

06. 22.04,22.07,22.08 and 33.02".

4. In the First Col umn of the Second Schedule to the principal

Act

(a) for the words "Compound alcoholic preparations

classified in Customs Tariff Heading No 22.08 of a kind used for

the industrial production of sort dri nks" there shall be substilUted

the words ''Compound alcoholic preparations classified inCustoms

Tariff Headings Nos 21.06 and 33.02 of u kind used for the

industrial production of soft drinks"; and

for the words "Other alcohohc products classified in

(b)

Customs Tariff Heading No 22.08: there shall be substituted the

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words "Other alcoholic products classified in Customs T ariff

Headi ngs Nos 21.06, 22,08 and 33 .02:".

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No . 509 of the 14th February,

1996. L A WRE.'1C1l Go:>071

Speaker

R ICHARD J . CAUCHI

Clerk 10 Ihe Hou$e oj Reprt'sellia/j\'t'$.