This Act may be cited as the Beer Duty Act Amendment Act, 1907, and shall form part of and be read together with the Beer Duty Act, 1880 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and eight, save that licenses may be granted and regulations may be made under the authority of this Act at any time after the passing thereof.

In this Act the term “hop-beer” means a fermented beverage containing hops, and containing not more than three per cent of proof spirit.

Hop-beer shall not be deemed to be beer within the meaning of the principal Act.

Every person who manufactures any hop-beer for sale, except under the authority of a license granted under this Act, is liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

A license for the manufacture of hop-beer may be obtained from the Collector, and a fee of one pound shall be payable therefor.

Every such license shall continue in force until the thirty-first day of December, inclusive, next after its issue.

No hop-beer shall be sold, offered for sale, or exposed for sale unless the name and address of the manufacturer are printed on labels affixed to the cask or bottle in which such hop-beer is contained.

Every person who commits a breach of this section is liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

No beer shall be removed from a brewery in pursuance of a permit granted under section thirty-two of the principal Act except to a warehouse or other place authorised by the Minister of Customs to be used for the storage of beer, and the said Minister may in his discretion grant, refuse, or withdraw his authority for such use.

Any beer removed from a brewery contrary to this section shall be deemed to have been removed without a permit.

The Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations for the effectual carrying-out of the provisions of this Act.