The Short Title of this Act is “The Beet-root Sugar Act, 1884.”

The Colonial Treasurer shall, out of the Consolidated Fund, pay to the person producing the same one halfpenny per pound on the first one thousand tons of sugar produced from beet-root or sorghum grown in this colony.

No duty by way of excise or otherwise shall be levied for fifteen years from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, on any sugar produced in this colony from beet-root or sorghum grown in this colony whilst the present import duty of one halfpenny per pound continues; but, if the import duty is increased, then an excise duty may be levied so long as one halfpenny per pound at least remains as the difference of duty charged on sugar imported and sugar produced in the colony from beet-root or sorghum grown in this colony.

If during fifteen years after the passing of this Act the present import duty on sugar is removed or reduced, a sum shall be paid during such removal or reduction per pound for all sugar produced in this colony from beet-root or sorghum grown in the colony to every person producing the same equal to the duty so removed or reduced, but never exceeding one halfpenny per pound.