Contents

1............ Short title [see Note 1] ....................................................................... 1

2............ Commencement [see Note 1] .............................................................. 1

3............ Interpretation ...................................................................................... 1

4............ Act binds the Crown .......................................................................... 4

4A......... Application of the Criminal Code ...................................................... 4

5............ Persons exempt from passenger movement charge ............................. 4

6............ Liability to pay passenger movement charge ..................................... 5

7............ Powers of authorised officers ............................................................. 6

8............ Offences .............................................................................................. 6

9............ Refunds of passenger movement charge ............................................. 7

10.......... Special arrangements for payment of passenger movement charge .... 8

11.......... Charge stamps and exemption stamps ............................................... 9

12.......... Recovery of passenger movement charge ......................................... 10

13.......... Averment .......................................................................................... 10

14.......... Delegation ......................................................................................... 10

15.......... Regulations ....................................................................................... 11

Notes                                                                                                                                             13

An Act relating to charge imposed in respect of the departure of persons from Australia

Notes to the Passenger Movement Charge Collection Act 1978

Note 1

The Passenger Movement Charge Collection Act 1978 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 119, 1978 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

All relevant information pertaining to application, saving or transitional provisions prior to 3 April 2000 is not included in this consolidation. For subsequent information see Table A.

Table of Acts

Act	Number and year	Date of Assent	Date of commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions
Departure Tax Collection Act 1978	119, 1978	29 Sept 1978	24 Oct 1978 (see s. 2 and Gazette 1978, No. S216)
Departure Tax Collection Amendment Act 1981	132, 1981	30 Sept 1981	1 Oct 1981	S. 4
Departure Tax Collection Amendment Act 1986	38, 1986	24 June 1986	S. 5: 1 July 1986 Remainder: Royal Assent	S. 4(2)
Departure Tax Collection Amendment Act 1988	48, 1988	15 June 1988	1 July 1988	--
Civil Aviation Act 1988	63, 1988	15 June 1988	S. 99: 1 July 1988 (see Gazette 1988, No. S189) (a)	--
Migration Legislation Amendment Act 1989	59, 1989	19 June 1989	Ss. 1 and 2: Royal Assent Part 3 (ss. 36, 37): 19 June 1990 S. 27: 1 July 1989 (see Gazette 1989, No. S218) S. 35: 20 Dec 1989 Remainder: 19 Dec 1989	--
Territories Law Reform Act 1992	104, 1992	30 June 1992	Ss. 3-8, 11-18, 20, 23 and 24: 1 July 1992 Ss. 9, 10, 19, 21 and 22: 29 June 1993 (see Gazette 1993, No. S196) Remainder: Royal Assent	--
Migration Legislation Amendment Act 1994	60, 1994	9 Apr 1994	S. 85: (b)	--
Departure Tax Collection Amendment Act 1994	159, 1994	16 Dec 1994	16 Dec 1994	Ss. 3 and 18-20
Passenger Movement Charge Collection Amendment Act 1995	65, 1995	30 June 1995	1 July 1995	S. 3 (item 10)
Timor Gap Treaty (Transitional Arrangements) Act 2000	25, 2000	3 Apr 2000	Ss. 4-6 and Schedule 2 (items 38, 39): (c)	Ss. 4-6 [see Table A]
Criminal Code Amendment (Theft, Fraud, Bribery and Related Offences) Act 2000	137, 2000	24 Nov 2000	Ss. 1-3 and Schedule 1 (items 1, 4, 6, 7, 9-11, 32): Royal Assent Remainder: 24 May 2001	Sch. 2 (items 418, 419) [see Table A]
Law and Justice Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Act 2001	24, 2001	6 Apr 2001	S. 4(1), (2) and Schedule 39: (d)	S. 4(1) and (2) [see Table A]
Customs Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2002	82, 2002	10 Oct 2002	Schedule 6: Royal Assent	--
Petroleum (Timor Sea Treaty) (Consequential Amendments) Act 2003	10, 2003	2 Apr 2003	Schedule 1 (items 1-52, 54-75, 78-82): 20 May 2002 Remainder: Royal Assent	--
Customs Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 2003	119, 2003	4 Dec 2003	Schedule 2: 1 Dec 2002	--
Australian Federal Police and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2004	64, 2004	22 June 2004	Schedule 2 (item 12): 1 July 2004 (see Gazette 2004, No. GN26)	--
Same‑Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws--General Law Reform) Act 2008	144, 2008	9 Dec 2008	Schedule 2 (items 61-64): 10 Dec 2008	--

(a)     The Passenger Movement Charge Collection Act 1978 was amended by section 99 only of the Civil Aviation Act 1988, subsection 2(2) of which provides as follows:

                 (2)   Part III, section 98 and Part X, and the amendments made by Part IX, commence on a day or days to be fixed by Proclamation.

(b)    The Passenger Movement Charge Collection Act 1978 was amended by section 85 only of the Migration Legislation Amendment Act 1994, subsection 2(3) of which provides as follows:

                 (3)   The remaining provisions of this Act commence immediately after the commencement of section 3 of the Migration Reform Act 1992.

Section 3 commenced on 1 September 1994.

(c)     The Passenger Movement Charge Collection Act 1978 was amended by Schedule 2 (items 38 and 39) only of the Timor Gap Treaty (Transitional Arrangements) Act 2000, subsection 2(2) of which provides as follows:

                 (2)   Sections 3 to 7 and Schedules 1 and 2 (other than items 18 to 25 of Schedule 2) are taken to have commenced at the transition time. [see Table A]

(d)     The Passenger Movement Charge Collection Act 1978 was amended by Schedule 39 only of the Law and Justice Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Act 2001, subsection 2(1)(a) of which provides as follows:

                 (1)   Subject to this section, this Act commences at the later of the following times:

                              (a)   immediately after the commencement of item 15 of Schedule 1 to the Criminal Code Amendment (Theft, Fraud, Bribery and Related Offences) Act 2000;

         Item 15 commenced on 24 May 2001.

Table of Amendments

ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended      rep. = repealed    rs. = repealed and substituted
Provision affected	How affected
Title......................................	am. No. 159, 1994
S. 1......................................	am. No. 159, 1994
S. 3......................................	am. No. 38, 1986; Nos. 48 and 63, 1988; No. 104, 1992; No. 159, 1994; No. 65, 1995; No. 25, 2000; No. 10, 2003; No. 144, 2008
S. 4A...................................	ad. No. 24, 2001
S. 5......................................	am. No. 132, 1981; No. 59, 1989; Nos. 60 and 159, 1994
	rs. No. 65, 1995
	am. No. 82, 2002; Nos. 10 and 119, 2003; No. 64, 2004
S. 6......................................	am. No. 159, 1994; No. 24, 2001
S. 7......................................	am. No. 159, 1994; No. 65, 1995
S. 8......................................	am. No. 159, 1994; No. 65, 1995; No. 137, 2000; No. 24, 2001
S. 9......................................	am. Nos. 60 and 159, 1994; No. 24, 2001
S. 10....................................	am. No. 159, 1994; No. 65, 1995
S. 11....................................	am. No. 38, 1986; No. 48, 1988; No. 159, 1994; No. 65, 1995
Ss. 11A-11C.......................	ad. No. 38, 1986
	rep. No. 48, 1988
Ss. 12, 13............................	am. No. 159, 1994
S. 14....................................	am. No. 38, 1986; No. 60, 1994
S. 15....................................	am. No. 48, 1988; No. 159, 1994

Table A

Application, saving or transitional provisions

Timor Gap Treaty (Transitional Arrangements) Act 2000 (No. 25, 2000)

4  The transition time

                   In this Act:

transition time means 1.23 am Australian Central Standard Time on 26 October 1999.

Note:          This time corresponds to the time in New York when the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1272 (1999), which established UNTAET and gave it responsibility for the administration of East Timor. In 2000 the text of the Resolution was available in the Library of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and accessible on the Internet through the Department's or the United Nations' world‑wide web site.

5  Validity of things done by the Ministerial Council and the Joint Authority

             (1)  Any thing done by the Ministerial Council or the Joint Authority, during the period commencing on the transition time and ending on 5.55 pm Australian Central Standard Time on 10 February 2000, is not invalid:

                     (a)  merely because the Republic of Indonesia ceased to be a party to the Treaty, and UNTAET became a party to the Treaty, at the transition time; or

                     (b)  merely because of an invalidity in the membership of the Ministerial Council or the Joint Authority.

             (2)  In this section:

Joint Authority and Ministerial Council have the meanings given them by subsection 5(1) of the Petroleum (Timor Gap Zone of Cooperation) Act 1990.

Treaty has the meaning given by subsection 5(1) of the Petroleum (Australia‑Indonesia Zone of Cooperation) Act 1990 (as in force immediately before the transition time).

UNTAET means the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor.

6  Protection against retrospective criminal liability

                   A person does not commit an offence if the person would not have committed the offence had the amendments made by the items in Schedules 1 and 2 (other than items 18 to 25 of Schedule 2) commenced on the day on which this Act received the Royal Assent (rather than commencing at the transition time).

Criminal Code Amendment (Theft, Fraud, Bribery and Related Offences) Act 2000 (No. 137, 2000)

Schedule 2

418  Transitional--pre‑commencement offences

(1)        Despite the amendment or repeal of a provision by this Schedule, that provision continues to apply, after the commencement of this item, in relation to:

                     (a)  an offence committed before the commencement of this item; or

                     (b)  proceedings for an offence alleged to have been committed before the commencement of this item; or

                     (c)  any matter connected with, or arising out of, such proceedings;

as if the amendment or repeal had not been made.

(2)        Subitem (1) does not limit the operation of section 8 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

419  Transitional--pre‑commencement notices

If:

                     (a)  a provision in force immediately before the commencement of this item required that a notice set out the effect of one or more other provisions; and

                     (b)  any or all of those other provisions are repealed by this Schedule; and

                     (c)  the first‑mentioned provision is amended by this Schedule;

the amendment of the first‑mentioned provision by this Schedule does not affect the validity of such a notice that was given before the commencement of this item.

Law and Justice Legislation Amendment (Application of Criminal Code) Act 2001 (No. 24, 2001)

4  Application of amendments

             (1)  Subject to subsection (3), each amendment made by this Act applies to acts and omissions that take place after the amendment commences.

             (2)  For the purposes of this section, if an act or omission is alleged to have taken place between 2 dates, one before and one on or after the day on which a particular amendment commences, the act or omission is alleged to have taken place before the amendment commences.