STATUTORY RULES.
1948.
No..
REGULATIONS UNDER THE COLONIAL
LIGHT DUES (RATES) ACT 1932-1936.*
WHEREAS
by section 3 of the Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 it is provided that the Colonial light dues fixed by
His Majesty the King in Council by Order made under section 670 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 on the
seventeenth day of December, 1931, being in respect of each ship which passes
and derives benefit from any lighthouse specified in the first part of the
Schedule to the said Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 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, are 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 has passed and derived benefit from any
of those lighthouses or from that buoy and in respect of which benefit the
Collector is not satisfied that Colonial light dues have already been paid in
some part of His Majesty’s
Dominions:
And
whereas it is further provided by section 3 of the said Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 that where any rate of
Colonial Light dues is fixed by His Majesty by Order in Council in substitution
for the rate specified in that section, and the imposition in the Commonwealth
of the rate so fixed is authorized by the regulations, that 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 that section, for which the
rate so fixed is in substitution:
And
whereas it is provided by section 5 of the said Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 that the Governor-General
may, after His Majesty has, by Order in Council, fixed any rate of Colonial
light dues in substitution for the rate specified in section 3 of that Act,
make regulations authorizing the imposition in the Commonwealth of the rate so
fixed:
And
whereas by an Order in Council made under section 670 of the said Merchant Shipping Act 1894 on the
twenty-sixth day of January, 1948, His Majesty the King in Council fixed a rate
of Colonial light dues in substitution for the rate of such dues specified in
section 3 of the Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 in respect of each ship which passes and derives
benefit from any lighthouse specified in the first part of the Schedule to the
said Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 or from the buoy specified in that Schedule:
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1948.
5224.—Price 3d. 10/22.9.1948.
Now
therefore I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia,
acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the
following regulations under the Colonial
Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936.
Dated
this twelfth day of November, 1948.
W. J. McKell
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
W. P. ASHLEY
Minister
of State for Shipping and Fuel.
Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Regulations.
Citation.
1.
These
Regulations may be cited as the Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Regulations.
Definitions.
2. In these Regulations,
unless the contrary intention appears—
“the
Act” means the Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936;
“the
Merchant Shipping Act” means the
Imperial Act known as the Merchant
Shipping Act 1894.
Authorization
of imposition of substituted rate.
3. The imposition in the
Commonwealth of Colonial light dues at the rate fixed in substitution for the
rate specified in section 3 of the Act by His Majesty the King in Council by
Order made under section 670 of the Merchant Shipping Act on the twenty-sixth
day of January, 1948, being dues in respect of each ship which passes and
derives benefit from any lighthouse specified in the first part of the Schedule
to the Act or from the buoy specified in that Schedule, is authorized at the
rate of three pence 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.
By
Authority: L. F.