Bass Strait
Freight Adjustment Levy Amendment Act 1985
No.
78 of 1985
An Act to amend
the Bass Strait Freight Adjustment Levy
Act 1984
[Assented to 6 June 1985]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Bass Strait Freight Adjustment Levy Amendment Act 1985.
(2) The Bass Strait Freight Adjustment Levy Act 19841is in this Act referred to as the
Principal Act.
Commencement
2. (1) Sections 1, 2 and 5 shall come into operation on the day on
which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Sections 3 and 6 shall
be deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 1985.
(3) Section 4 shall be
deemed to have come into operation on 1 March 1985.
Amendment
of section 6 having effect from 1 January 1985
3. Section 6 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting “$1.26” and substituting “$1.39”.
Amendment
of section 6 having effect from 1 March 1985
4. Section 6 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting “$1.39” and substituting “$1.96”.
5. Section 6 of the
Principal Act is repealed and the following section is substituted:
Rate
of levy
“6. (1) In this section—
‘Coastal
Freight Allowance’ means $3.01 per kilolitre or such other amount per kilolitre
as the Minister determines under sub-section (4) to be the Coastal Freight
Allowance component of the Import Parity Price of Bass Strait stabilized crude
petroleum oil;
‘levy
amount’ means an amount equal to 65% of the amount specified in the Coastal
Freight Allowance calculated to the nearest cent.
“(2) The rate of adjustment levy is
the levy amount per kilolitre.
“(3) Where, because of a variation
of the Coastal Freight Allowance, 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.
“(4) The Minister may, by notice in
writing published in the Gazette, determine,
from time to time, the amount per kilolitre 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 Coastal Freight Allowance
component of the Import Parity Price of Bass Strait stabilized crude petroleum
oil.
“(5) In making a determination
under sub-section (4), the Minister may have regard to—
(a)
the cost of transporting stabilized crude petroleum oil by sea between places
in Australia;
(b)
the cost of transporting stabilized crude petroleum oil by pipeline between
places in Australia; and
(c)
such other matters as the Minister thinks appropriate.
“(6) The provisions of sections 48
(other than paragraph (1) (a) and sub-section (2)), 49, 49a and 50 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 apply in relation to determinations
made under sub-section (4) as if references in those provisions to regulations
were references to determinations under sub-section (4).
“(7) Determinations made for the
purposes of sub-section (4) shall be deemed not to be Statutory Rules within
the meaning of the Statutory Rules
Publication Act 1903.”.
Application
6. Where the rate of
adjustment levy is altered by a provision of this Act, 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.
NOTE
1. No. 25, 1984.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives
on 8 May 1985
Senate on 27 May 1985