Excise and Customs Legislation Amendment (Streamlining Administration) Act 2024 (51 of 2024)

Schedule 1   Streamlining administration

Part 1   Warehouse and excise licensing

Division 3   Application and transitional provisions

172   Application provisions - amendment of the Excise Act 1901

(1) Except as is otherwise provided by this item, the amendments of the Excise Act 1901 made by this Part apply in relation to:

(a) a licence that is granted on or after the commencement of this item on an application made on or after that commencement; and

(b) a licence that is varied on or after that commencement.

(2) Sections 39 to 39C of the Excise Act 1901, as amended by this Part, apply in relation to an application for a licence made on or after the commencement of this item.

(3) Sections 39E to 39L of the Excise Act 1901, as amended by this Part, apply on and after the commencement of this item in relation to a licence that is in force on or after that commencement, whether the licence is granted before, on or after that commencement.

(4) Subsections 39M(1) and (3) and 39N(1) of the Excise Act 1901, as amended by this Part, apply to a licence that ceases to be in force on or after the commencement of this item.

(5) Despite the amendments of sections 77E and 77F of the Excise Act 1901 made by this Part, those sections, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continue to apply in relation to a brewery licence that is cancelled, or that expires without being renewed, before that commencement.

(6) A place specified in a licence that is in force immediately before the commencement of this item is taken, on and after that commencement, to be and always to have been covered by the licence for all purposes (subject to any variation of the licence on or after that commencement).