MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991 

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.   Short title [see Note 1]    
2.   Commencement    
3.   Definitions    
4.   Interpretation    
5.   Application to Crown    
6.   Imposition of levy    
7.   Amount of levy    
8.   Regulations    

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991

- LONG TITLE

An Act to impose a levy on certain sea-going ships to
provide funding for certain marine regulatory and related functions of the
Australian Maritime Safety Authority, and for related purposes

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991
- SECT 1   Short title [see Note 1] 

 
        This Act may be cited as the Marine Navigation (Regulatory Functions) Levy
Act 1991.

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991
- SECT 2   Commencement 

 
        This Act commences on 1 July 1991.

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991
- SECT 3   Definitions 

 
        In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Collection Act" means the Marine Navigation (Regulatory
Functions) Levy Collection Act 1991.
"ton" means a whole ton.
"tonnage", in relation to a ship, means:

    (a)    where the net tonnage of the ship has been determined by a method
consistent with the provisions of the International Convention on Tonnage
Measurement of Ships, 1969 (the English text of which is set out in Schedule 8
to the Navigation Act 1912)--the net tonnage so determined; or
    (b)    in any other case--the net registered tonnage of the ship.

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991
- SECT 4   Interpretation 

 
        In this Act, expressions have the same meaning as in the Collection Act.

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991
- SECT 5   Application to Crown 

 
        This Act binds the Crown in right of each of the States, of the Australian
Capital Territory, of the Northern Territory and of Norfolk Island.

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991
- SECT 6   Imposition of levy 

 
        Levy payable in respect of a sea-going ship in accordance with the Collection
Act is imposed.

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991
- SECT 7   Amount of levy 

 
(1)  Where levy is payable in respect of a ship, the amount of levy is the
amount, or the total of the amounts, worked out using whichever of the levy
rates apply to the ship.
(2)  For the purposes of this Act, each of the following rates is a levy rate
in relation to a ship:

    (a)    4 cents, or such other amount as is from time to time prescribed, for
each of the first 5,000 tons of the ship's tonnage;
    (b)    3 cents, or such other amount as is from time to time prescribed, for each
ton by which the ship's tonnage is more than 5,000 tons but not more than
20,000 tons;
    (c)    3 cents, or such other amount as is from time to time prescribed, for each
ton by which the ship's tonnage is more than 20,000 tons but not more than
50,000 tons;
    (d)    2 cents, or such other amount as is from time to time prescribed, for each
ton by which the ship's tonnage is more than 50,000 tons.

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991
- SECT 8   Regulations 

 
(1)  Subject to subsection (2), the Governor-General may make regulations for
the purposes of subsection 7(2).
(2)  After 30 June 1993, an amount applicable under paragraph 7(2)(a), (b), (c)
or (d) must not be increased by more than 15% in any 12 consecutive months.

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991

- NOTES

Compilation Information

[GRAPHIC]Marine Navigation (Regulatory Functions) Levy Act
1991
Act No. 40 of 1991
This Act was prepared on 20 April 2004
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,Attorney-General's
Department, Canberra
  
  
  

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991

- NOTES

MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY ACT 1991Notes to the Marine Navigation (Regulatory Functions) Levy Act 1991

 

Note 1
Act No. 40, 1991; assented to 27 March 1991.