Fisheries Levy (East Coast Tuna Purse Seine Fishery) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1993

No. 354

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Fisheries Levy (East Coast Tuna Purse Seine Fishery) Regulations 2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Fisheries Levy Act 1984.

Dated 15 December 1993.

 BILL HAYDEN

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

NICK SHERRY

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for

 Primary Industries and Energy for the

Minister for Primary Industries and Energy

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Fisheries Levy (East Coast Tuna Purse Seine Fishery) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[NOTE:

 These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Regulation 4 (Amount of levy—subsection 6 (1) of the Act)

2.1   Omit “For”, substitute “Subject to regulation 5, for”.

2.2   Paragraph 4 (a):

Omit “$2,500”, substitute “$2,546”.

2.3   Paragraph 4 (b):

Omit “$1,600”, substitute “$1,546”.

2.4   Paragraph 4 (c):

Omit “$1,500”, substitute “$1,946”.

2.5   Paragraph 4 (d):

Omit “$825”, substitute “$1,346”.

2.6   Paragraph 4 (e):

Omit “$825”, substitute “$1,346”.

3. New

regulation 5

3.1   After regulation 4, insert:

Amount of levy—multiple endorsements

“5.

If a licence is endorsed with:

• (a)

  an endorsement in a class of endorsements referred to in regulation 4; and

• (b)

  one or more endorsements in a different class or in different classes of endorsement referred to in regulation 4 or in regulation 5 of the Fisheries Levy (East Coast Tuna Longline Fishery) Regulations; and

• (c)

  each of the endorsements is in respect of the same period;

for the purposes of subsection 6 (1) of the Act, the amount specified

for each of those endorsements is the amount calculated by the formula:

where:

‘A’ is:

• (a)

  where the same amount is specified in regulation 4 or in regulation 5 of the Fisheries Levy (East Coast Tuna Longline Fishery) Regulations for each of those endorsements—that amount; or

• (b)

  in any other case—the greater or greatest (as the case may be) of the amounts specified in regulation 4 or in regulation 5 of the Fisheries Levy (East Coast Tuna Longline Fishery) Regulations for those endorsements; and

‘E’ is the number of those endorsements.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 16 December 1993.

2. Statutory Rules 1990 No. 462 as amended by 1992 Nos. 11 and 408.