GOVERNMENT OF FIJI

EXCISE (AMENDMENT) DECREE 2013
(DECREE NO. 35 OF 2013)

IN exercise of the powers vested in me pursuant to section 4 of the Office of the Vice-President and Succession Decree 2009 and section 165(4) of the Constitution of the Republic of Fiji, I hereby make the following Decree—

A DECREE TO AMEND THE EXCISE ACT 1986

Short title and commencement
1.—(1) This Decree may be cited as the Excise (Amendment) Decree 2013, and shall be deemed to have come into force on 8 November 2013.

(2)The Excise Act 1986 shall be referred to as the "Act".

Schedule 1 amended
 2. Schedule 1 to the Act is amended by inserting the following new Item No. 8 after Item No. 7—

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	
Item	Goods	Description	
"8	Optical media	Optical media
(Unrecorded)"	

Schedule 2 amended

3. Schedule 2 to the Act is amended in Part 1—

(a) by deleting the amounts in column 3 as mentioned against each item and substituting the new amount specified below—

 Column 1
Item	Column	Delete	Substitute	
No. 1.01	3	“159.53 cents”	“175.48 cents”	
No. 1.02	3	“106.35 cents”	“116.99 cents”	
No. 1.03	3	“159.53 cents”	“175.48 cents”	
	“106.35 cents”	“116.99 cents”	
No. 2.01	3	“$91.92”	“$101.11”	
No. 2.02	3	“$54.00”	“$59.40”	
No. 2.03	3	“$91.92”	“$101.11”	
	“$54.00”	“$59.40”	
No. 3.01	3	“$1.57”	“$1.73”	
No. 3.02	3	“$1.84”	“$2.02”	
No. 4.01	3	“$60.60”	“$66.66”	
No. 4.03	3	“$34.61”	“$38.07”	
No. 4.04	3	“$60.60”	“$66.66”	
No. 4.05	3	“$1.13”	“$1.24”	
No. 5.01	3	“$2.78”	“$3.06”	
No. 5.02	3	“$2.44”	“$2.68”	
No. 5.03	3	“$2.78”	“$3.06”	
No. 5.04	3	“$2.44”	“$2.68”	

(b) by inserting the following new Item No. 7 after Item No. 6—

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	
Item	Goods	Description	
“7	Optical media
(Unrecorded)	$1.00 per unit”	

GIVEN under my hand this 21st day of November 2013.

A. H. C. T. GATES
Chief Justice