Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BASS STRAIT FREIGHT ADJUSTMENT LEVY AMENDMENT ACT 1987 No. 151 of 1987 - SECT 3

3. Section 6 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is
substituted: Rate of levy

"6. (1) The rate of adjustment levy is $1.78 per kilolitre of unstabilized
crude petroleum oil or such lesser rate as is determined by the Minister under
subsection (2).

"(2) The Minister may, from time to time, by notice in writing published in
the Gazette, determine the amount per kilolitre of unstabilized crude
petroleum oil that is to be, from the day specified in the notice (not being a
day earlier than the day on which the notice is published in the Gazette), the
rate of adjustment levy.

"(3) The Minister may, under subsection (2), determine a nil amount per
kilolitre of unstabilized crude petroleum oil to be the rate of adjustment
levy.

"(4) Where the rate of adjustment levy is altered, the rate of adjustment levy
as so altered has effect in relation to unstabilized crude petroleum oil
produced on or after the day on which the alteration occurs.

"(5) The provisions of sections 48 (other than paragraph (1) (a) and
subsection (2)), 49, 49A and 50 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 apply in
relation to determinations made under subsection (2).

"(6) Determinations made under subsection (2) shall be deemed not to be
statutory rules within the meaning of the Statutory Rules Publication Act
1903.".