DISTILLATION ACT 1901 (REPEALED)

PART VIII - PENAL PROVISIONS  

SECTION 74 (Repealed by 74 of 2006)  

74   OFFENCES AS TO ILLICIT STILLS  
No person shall:

(1) Use an illicit still;

(2) Make any illicit spirits;

(3) Supply the means or materials for establishing, maintaining, or working any illicit still;

(4) Receive, carry, convey, or conceal, or have on the person's premises, or in the custody, or under the control, of the person, any illicit spirits;

(5) Be found in any place where distillation is being illegally carried on;

(6) Sell or dispose of any illicit spirits;

(7) Purchase any illicit spirits knowing them to be illicit spirits;

(8) Make, sell, or have in his or her possession or custody or control any wash or wort intended for distillation by an illicit still.

Penalty: 50 penalty units.

Note:

See section 4AA of the Crimes Act 1914 for the current value of a penalty unit.

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History

S 74 amended by No 146 of 2001, s 3 and Sch 4 item 11, by omitting ``without lawful excuse'' after ``Be found'' in para (5), applicable to acts and omissions that take place after December 15. If an act or omission is alleged to have taken place between 2 dates, one before and one on or after December 15, the act or omission is alleged to have taken place before December 15.

S 74 amended by No 25 of 2001, s 3 and Sch 4 items 43 to 45, by substituting ``have on the person's premises, or in the custody, or under the control, of the person'' for ``have upon his premises or in his custody or under his control'' in para (4), substituting ``his or her'' for ``his'' in para (8), substituting the penalty and inserting the note at the end, effective 4 May 2001. The penalty formerly read:

Penalty: $5,000.

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