MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989 

MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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

MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989

- LONG TITLE

An Act to impose a levy on certain sea-going ships, and for
related purposes

MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989
- SECT 1   Short title [see Note 1] 

 
        This Act may be cited as the Marine Navigation Levy Act 1989.

MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989
- SECT 2   Commencement [see Note 1] 

 
(1)  Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on a day to be fixed by
Proclamation.
(2)  If this Act does not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on
the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, it commences:

    (a)    if the first day after the end of that period is the first day of a
quarter--on that day; or
    (b)    in any other case--on the first day of the quarter next following the end
of that period.

MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989
- SECT 3   Definitions 

 
        In this Act:

"Collection Act" means the Marine Navigation Levy Collection Act
1989.
"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 LEVY ACT 1989
- SECT 4   Interpretation 

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

MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989
- 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 LEVY ACT 1989
- SECT 6   Imposition of levy 

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

MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989
- 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)    63 cents, or such other amount (if any) as is from time to time
prescribed, for each of the first 5,000 tons of the ship's tonnage;
    (b)    53 cents, or such other amount (if any) 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)    43 cents, or such other amount (if any) 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)    33 cents, or such other amount (if any) as is from time to time
prescribed, for each ton by which the ship's tonnage is more than 50,000 tons.

MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989
- SECT 8   Regulations 

 
(1)  The Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of subsection
7(2).
(2)  The regulations must not prescribe an amount for the purposes of paragraph
7(2)(a), (b), (c) or (d) that increases the amount applicable under that
paragraph by more than 15% in any period of 12 consecutive months.

MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989

- NOTES

Compilation Information

[GRAPHIC]Marine Navigation Levy Act 1989
Act No. 161 of 1989
This Act was prepared on 20 April 2004
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,Attorney-General's
Department, Canberra
  
  
  

MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989

- NOTES

MARINE NAVIGATION LEVY ACT 1989Notes to the Marine Navigation Levy Act 1989

 

Note 1
Act No. 161, 1989; assented to 18 December 1989; commenced 1 July
1990.