Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BOUNTY (SHIP REPAIR) ACT 1986 No. 128 of 1986 - SECT 19

19. (1) Subject to this section, a person may be registered under this section
as a registered repairer for the purposes of this Act.

(2) An application for registration under this section as a registered
repairer may be made to the Minister, in accordance with the appropriate
approved form, by a person who carries out or proposes to carry out the
eligible repair of bountiable ships in Australia.

(3) Subject to sub-sections (7), (9), (10) and (11), where an application for
registration is made under sub-section (2) by a person (in this
sub-section referred to as the "applicant") who, in the opinion of the
Minister, carries out, or proposes to carry out, the eligible repair of
bountiable ships in Australia, the Minister shall-

   (a)  register the applicant as a registered repairer by-

        (i)    signing a notice, in writing, specifying the day on which it
               was signed and stating that the applicant has been registered
               as a registered repairer; and

        (ii)   causing the notice to be served on the applicant; or

   (b)  refuse to register the applicant as a registered repairer and cause a
        notice, in writing, stating that the Minister has refused to register
        the applicant as a registered repairer to be served on the applicant.

(4) The registration of a person under this section has effect from and
including-

   (a)  the day on which the notice under paragraph (3) (a) in relation to the
        person is signed; or

   (b)  such earlier day, not being a day earlier than 10 October 1986, as is
        specified for the purpose in the notice.

(5) A notice under sub-section (3) in relation to a person shall specify
whether the person is registered under this section in relation to-

   (a)  all bountiable ships; or

   (b)  a specified class, or specified classes, of bountiable ships, and may
        specify a period as the period during which the person is registered
        under this section.

(6) The regulations may prescribe conditions to be met by an applicant for
registration under this section including, without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, a condition requiring the applicant to be a person included in
a specified class of persons.

(7) If conditions have been prescribed for the pruposes of sub-section (6),
the Minister shall not register the person under this section unless-

   (a)  the Minister is satisfied that the conditions are, or will be, met by
        the person; or

   (b)  registration of the person for those purposes is otherwise permitted
        under the regulations.

(8) The regulations may prescribe conditions to be complied with in connection
with the eligible repair of bountiable ships.

(9) If conditions have been prescribed for the purposes of sub-section (8),
the Minister shall not register a person under this section for the purposes
of that scheme unless-

   (a)  the Minister is satisfied that the conditions have been, or will be,
        complied with by the person; or

   (b)  registration of the person for those purposes is otherwise permitted
        under the regulations.

(10) The Minister may require an applicant for registration under this section
to give such information as the Minister considers necessary for the purposes
of this Act and may refuse to register the person until the information is
given to the satisfaction of the Minister.

(11) Where an applicant for registration under this section was not, on 9
October 1986, engaged in the business of carrying out the eligible repair of
bountiable ships in Australia, the Minister shall not register that person if
the Minister is of the opinion that the registration of that person will not
permit the orderly development in Australia of the industry of the eligible
repair of bountiable ships.

(12) Where, at any time, the Minister becomes satisfied, in respect of a
person registered under this section-

   (a)  that the person no longer carries out the eligible repair of
        bountiable ships in Australia;

   (b)  in a case where the person is registered in relation to a class of
        bountiable ships, that the person no longer carries out the
        eligible repair of bountiable ships in that class in Australia; or

   (c)  in a case where conditions have been prescribed for the purposes of
        sub-section (6) or (8), that, if the person were, at that time, an
        applicant for registration under this section, the Minister would not
        be authorised to register the person under this section, the Minister
        may cancel the registration of the person as a registered repairer by
        causing a notice, in writing, stating that the registration of the
        person as a ship repairer has been cancelled to be served on the
        person.

(13) Subject to sub-section (12), a ship repairer who commences the eligible
repair of a bountiable ship in Australia during the period commencing on 10
October 1986 and ending on 31 December 1986 shall be taken to be registered
under this section during that period.