Esperance Port Authority Amendment Regulations 1993 (WA)

27 August 1993) GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 4629

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ESPERANCE PORT AUTHORITY ACT 1968

ESPERANCE PORT AUTHORITY AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 1993

Made by the Esperance Port Authority and approved by His Excellency the

Governor in Executive Council.

Citation

1. These regulations may be cited as the Esperance Port Authority

Amendment Regulations 1993.

Commencement

2. These regulations shall come into operation on 1 September 1993.

Principal regulations

3. In these regulations the Esperance Port Authority Regulations 1969* are

referred to as the principal regulations.

[* Reprinted in the Gazette of 17 January 1991 at pp. 113-86.

For amendments to 13 July 1993 see 1992 Index to Legislation of

wharves as provided for in these regulations.

Western Australia, Table 4, pp.68-9.)

Heading to Part IV amended

4. The heading to Part IV of the principal regulations is amended by

deleting "TONNAGE RATES" and substituting the following heading —

VESSEL CHARGES ".

Regulation 68 repealed and regulations 68 and 68A substituted

5. Regulation 68 of the principal regulations is repealed and the following

regulations are substituted —

it

Vessel charges and berthing dues

68. (1) Vessel charges shall be paid by all vessels using

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(2) All vessels lying alongside wharves and trans-shipping cargo to or from lighters or other vessels shall be charged the same berthing dues in respect of that cargo as if the cargo had been landed on or taken off the wharves.

(3) Subject to subregulation (4) when computing berthing dues for cargo carrying vessels, the officer in charge shall have the option of proceeding on the basis of the tonne of 1 000 kilograms, or the cubic metre, or the kilolitre, and the fractions of these units shall be charged on a pro rata basis.

(4) Notwithstanding subregulation (3) the officer in charge shall compute berthing dues for the animals specified in this subregulation in accordance with the following —

(a) one bullock, cow, steer, heifer or similar animal one tonne;

(b) 3 calves or foals one tonne;

(c) 15 sheep, pigs, goats or similar animals one tonne.

(5)

A vessel shall be charged at the rate of $1.00 for each

tonne/kilolitre of cargo loaded or discharged with a minimum
charge of $100.00 per vessel.

(6) A vessel which occupies a berth but does not load or

discharge cargo shall pay —

(a) $1 300.00 for the first day or part thereof; and

(b) $650.00 for every following 12 hour period or part thereof.

Berthage dues — Taylor Street Jetty

68A. (1) Vessels using the Taylor Street Jetty shall pay —

(a) for a Licensed Fishing Vessel where the overall length of the vessel inclusive of any overhang —

$

does not exceed 6 metres	350
exceeds 6 metres but does not
exceed 10 metres	405

exceeds 10 metres but does not

exceed 20 metres 545

exceeds 20 metres but does not

exceed 30 metres	720
exceeds 30 metres	900;
and

(b) for a vessel licensed to carry passengers 300.

(2) The berthage dues referred to in subregulation (1) are payable for a period of 12 months ending 31 December in each year but where the use of a vessel commences after 30 June in any year, one half of the prescribed dues are payable.

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(3) A vessel, other than a vessel referred to in subreg

-ulation (1), moored alongside any part of the Taylor Street Jetty, other than the Northern Berth face shall pay —

(a)	a fee of $10.00 per day or part thereof; or
(b)	at a rate of $55.00 per month or part thereof.

Regulation 73 amended

6. Regulation 73 (3) of the principal regulations is amended by deleting

paragraph (a).

Second Schedule amended

7. The Second Schedule to the principal regulations is amended —

(a) by repealing Part 1 and substituting the following Part —

it

PART 1— WHARFAGE DUES ON CARGO

The rates of wharfage dues on cargo (whether inward cargo or outward cargo) shall be as follows —

Description of Goods	Wharfage Dues
GENERAL RATES
All goods for which specific rates
are not otherwise provided —
Goods in containers	per tonne 2.95
Goods in bulker bags	per tonne 2.32
SPECIFIC RATES

Petroleum products —	(a)	bulk, by pipeline. .	per kL	3.00
(b)	bunkers, on which
inward wharfage has
not been paid	2.00

per kL

Fertilisers —

Including rock phosphate and sulphur

in bulk and landed loose	per tonne 2.32
Minerals —
metallic, earthy, and metallurgical
products —
loose	per tonne 1.40
Iron ore	per tonne 0.50
Grain —
Wheat, barley, lupins
and oats	per tonne 1.23

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Livestock — $

(a) horses, cattle

(not caged or

crated) each 1.48

(b) pigs, sheep, goats

(not caged or crated) .. each 0.45

Miscellaneous

Soda ash per tonne 2.32

Processed stock food for consumption

on voyage per tonne 1.03

Water per kL 0.56

and

(b)

in Part IV by deleting —

(i)	the paragraph commencing "Harbour Improvement Dues:"; and
(ii)	the paragraph commencing "Harbour Improvement Dues

(Harbour Deepening): ".

Passed by a meeting of the Esperance Port Authority at a meeting held on 16 July 1993. The common seal of the Esperance Port Authority was at the time of the resolution affixed in the presence of—

R. E. BOWER, Chairman. R. J. NEILSEN, Member.

C. A. STEWART, General Manager.

Approved by His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council.

D. G. BLIGHT, Clerk of the Council.