BOUNTY (SHIPS) ACT 1980 No. 48 of 1980 - SECT 3 Interpretation

BOUNTY (SHIPS) ACT 1980 No. 48 of 1980 - SECT 3

3. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-



"Australian waters" includes inland waters of Australia;



"authorized person" means a person who is an authorized person for the
purposes of this Act by virtue of an appointment under section 13;



"bountiable vessel" means a vessel designed for use in navigation, other than
air navigation, and includes-

   (a)  a barge, lighter or like vessel;

   (b)  a floating structure designed for use in the exploration of, or the
        exploitation of the natural resources of, any submerged lands;

   (c)  a dredger; and

   (d)  a floating dock, but does not include-

   (e)  a hovercraft;

   (f)  a vessel of 150 gross construction tons or less, other than a fishing
        vessel; and

   (g)  a fishing vessel the length of which on the designed load water line
        is 21 metres or less;



"bounty" means bounty under this Act;



"Collector" means a Collector of Customs for a State or Territory;



"Comptroller-General" means the Comptroller-General of Customs;



"fishing operations" include any operations relating to fish or other animals,
including marine organisms, that live in the sea or other waters;



"fishing vessel" means a vessel designed for commercial fishing operations;



"modification", in relation to a vessel, means changing the structure or
specification of the vessel to alter its capacity or capability, but does not
include any changing of that structure or specification before the
construction of the vessel has been completed;



"period to which this Act applies" means the period that commenced on 1 July
1980 and ends on such date as is fixed by the Minister, by notice published in
the Gazette, not being a date earlier than the publication of the notice, as
the date after which bounty is not to become payable under this Act;



"premises" includes an area of waters;



"registered yards" means premises registered by the Minister under section  10
;



"shipbuilder" means a person who carries out the construction or modification
of bountiable vessels.

(2) For the purposes of this Act-

   (a)  the construction of a bountiable vessel shall be taken to have com-
        menced on the day on which a major unit from which the vessel is
        constructed was set up at registered yards;

   (b)  the construction or modification of a bountiable vessel shall be taken
        to have been completed on such date as the Comptroller-General, having
        regard to the practices of the shipbuilding industry, determines to be
        the date on which that construction or modification was completed;

   (c)  the number of tons in the gross construction tonnage of a vessel shall
Z be ascertained in accordance with the formula ----, where Z is a
2.83 number equal to the number of cubic metres in the total volume, measured
in relation to their moulded lines, of the enclosed spaces in the vessel,
including tween-deck spaces, water ballast spaces, voids, cofferdams,
machinery spaces, erections, superstructures, houses, casings and funnel and
mast spaces;

   (d)  where a part of the construction or modification of a vessel is
        carried out on behalf of a shipbuilder at the premises of another
        person-that part of that construction or modification shall be deemed
        to have been carried out by the shipbuilder at registered yards; and

   (e)  the modification of a vessel that, before the modification, was not,
        but, after and by reason of the modification, was, a bountiable vessel
        shall be taken to be the modification of a bountiable vessel.