STEVEDORING INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 453

STEVEDORING INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 453

Statutory Rules 1994 No. 453

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Industrial Relations

Stevedoring Industry Levy Collection Act 1977

Stevedoring Industry Levy Collection Regulations (Amendment)

Section 11 of the Stevedoring Industry Levy Collection Act 1977 (the Act) provides in part that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters to facilitate the collection or recovery of amounts of levy or an amount payable under section 7 of the Act.

The Act is one of three pieces of stevedoring legislation which establish and provide for the collection of levies for the purpose of funding the Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee (the Committee) in meeting its obligations.

Amendments to the stevedoring legislation to give effect to recommendations made by the Waterfront Industry Reform Authority and by the Committee, arising from the Government's waterfront reform program, so far as the recommendations relate to levy collection, commenced by proclamation on 18 August 1994.

Complementary changes to the Stevedoring Industry Levy Collection Regulations (the Regulations) and to two other sets of stevedoring regulations commenced on the same day. Those changes included the deletion of the words "waterside workers" wherever appearing and the substitution of the words "stevedoring employees" The changes, however, inadvertently omitted to amend Form 2 in the Schedule to the Regulations, where the words "waterside workers" appear twice.

The amending regulations correct that omission.

Subregulation 1.1 provides that the amendments are taken to have commenced on 18 August 1994, which is the day on which the previous amendments of the Regulations (which should have included these changes) commenced.

Subregulation 3.1 amends Form 2 in the Schedule to the Regulations by omitting the words "waterside workers" where these occur and substituting the words "stevedoring employees".