BALLAST WATER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDING LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS 1998 1998 No. 143 - REG 7 Refund of levy paid under s 7 (2) or (3) of Act

Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

Refund of levy paid under s 7 (2) or (3) of Act—ship prevented from putting to sea

7. (1) A refund, of the amount worked out by the formula in subregulation (2), is payable for a ship if:

(a): levy has been paid for the ship under subsection 7 (2) or (3) of the Act; and
(b): the ship is unable, for longer than 30 consecutive days, to put to sea from a port in Australia; and
(c): the period of 3 months that begins on the day on which that levy became payable includes any of those days.

;

where:

"A" is the amount of levy paid;

"N" means the number of days in the period referred to in paragraph (1) (c) on which the ship was unable to put to sea;

Q is the number of days in the period.