COLONIAL LIGHT DUES (RATES).
No.
66 of 1932.
An
Act to impose Colonial Light Dues.
[Assented
to 5th December, 1932.]
BE it
enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Colonial
Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932.
Incorporation.
2. The Colonial
Light Dues Collection Act 1932 shall be incorporated and read as one with
this Act.
Imposition
of Colonial Light Dues.
3.—(1.) The Colonial light dues fixed by His Majesty
the King in Council by Order made under section six hundred and seventy of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, on the
seventeenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, being—
(a) in respect of each ship which passes
and derives benefit from any lighthouse specified in the first part of the
Schedule to this Act or from the buoy specified in that Schedule—at the rate of
one penny per ton of the register tonnage of that ship for every occasion on
which the ship passes and derives benefit from any of those lighthouses or from
that buoy; and
(b) in respect of each ship which passes
and derives benefit from the lighthouse specified in the second part of that
Schedule—at the rate of one halfpenny per ton of the register tonnage of that
ship for every occasion on which the ship passes and derives benefit from that
lighthouse,
are
hereby imposed with respect to each voyage of a ship, British or foreign, which
is at any port, harbour or place in Australia, and which, in the course of any
voyage to or from Australia, has passed and derived benefit from any of those
lighthouses or from that buoy.
(2.) Where any rate of Colonial light dues is fixed by His Majesty by
Order in Council in substitution for either of the rates specified in
paragraphs (a) and (b) of the last preceding sub-section,
and the imposition in the Commonwealth of the rate so fixed is authorized by
the regulations, this Act shall thereupon have effect as if Colonial light dues
were imposed in the Commonwealth at the rate so fixed in lieu of the rate,
specified in the last preceding sub-section, for which the rate so fixed is in
substitution.
Currency
in which payments to be made.
4. Colonial light dues imposed by this Act shall be payable in
currency of the United Kingdom or in Australian currency of such amount as,
having regard to the rate of exchange prevailing at the time of payment,
represents the equivalent, in currency of the United Kingdom, of the dues so
imposed.
Regulations.
5. The Governor-General may, after His Majesty has, by Order in
Council, fixed any rate of Colonial light dues in substitution for either of
the rates specified in paragraphs (a)
and (b) of sub-section (1.) of
section three of this Act, make regulations authorizing the imposition in the
Commonwealth of the rate so fixed.
THE SCHEDULE.
FIRST
PART.
— | Latitude. | Longitude. |
Lighthouses— |
Gun Cay..........................................................
| 25°
34′ N........................ | 79° 19′ W. |
Abaco..............................................................
| 25°
51′ N........................ | 77° 11′ W. |
Cay Sal............................................................
| 23°
57′ N........................ | 80° 28′ W. |
Great Isaac.......................................................
| 26°
02′ N........................ | 79° 06′ W. |
Cay Lobos........................................................
| 22°
23′ N........................ | 77° 36′ W. |
Elbow Cay.......................................................
| 26°
32′ N........................ | 76° 57′ W. |
Great Stirrup Cay..............................................
| 25°
50′ N........................ | 77° 54′ W. |
Castle Island.....................................................
| 22°
07′ N........................ | 74° 20′ W. |
Inagua..............................................................
| 20°
56′ N........................ | 73° 40′ W. |
Bird Rock........................................................
| 22°
51′ N........................ | 74° 22′ W. |
Watling Island..................................................
| 24°
06′ N........................ | 74° 26′ W. |
Buoy— |
Matanilla Shoal
| 27°
23′ N....................... . | 79° 06′ W. |
SECOND
PART. |
– | Latitude. | Longitude. |
Lighthouse— |
Sombrero Island...............................................
| 18°
36′ N....................... s | 63° 28′ W. |