STEVEDORING INDUSTRY LEVY (RATES OF LEVY) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 290

STEVEDORING INDUSTRY LEVY (RATES OF LEVY) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 290

Statutory Rules 1994 No. 290

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Industrial Relations

Stevedoring Industry Levy Act 1977

Stevedoring Industry Levy (Rates of Levy) Regulations (Amendment)

The Stevedoring Industry Levy (Rates of Levy) Act 1977 (the Act) is one of four pieces of stevedoring legislation which have been amended by the Industrial Relations Legislation Amendment Act 1994 (the Amendment Act). The stevedoring legislation establishes and provides for the collection of special levies for the purpose of funding the Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee (the Committee) in meeting its obligations.

The amendments to the stevedoring legislation 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.

As a result of these amendments, changes were required to the Stevedoring Industry Levy (Rates of Levy) Regulations (the Regulations) and to two other sets of stevedoring regulations.

Subsection 12(1) of the Act provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing rates of levy for the purposes of the Act.

Paragraph 4(1)(a) of the Act, which imposed a general levy in respect of employment of waterside workers, was omitted by paragraph 25(b) of the Amendment Act.

Section 5 of the Act, which provided that the rates of levy referred to in paragraph 4(1)(a) of the Act were prescribed, was repeated by section 26 of the Amendment Act.

Regulation 4 of the Regulations provides that a rate specified in an item in a table to the Regulations is prescribed. Item 2 of the table prescribed a general levy which has been deleted from the table.

Amending subregulation 1.1 provides that the amending regulations commence on the date of commencement of the relevant Part of the Amendment Act.

Amending subregulation 3.1 has deleted Item 2 from the table to the Regulations.