Government Prices Oversight Amendment Act 1998 (TAS)

Government Prices Oversight Amendment Act 1998

An Act to amend the Government Prices Oversight Act 1995

[Royal Assent 19 June 1998]

Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1Short titleThis Act may be cited as the Government Prices Oversight Amendment Act 1998 . 2CommencementThis Act commences on a day to be proclaimed. 3Principal ActIn this Act, the Government Prices Oversight Act 1995 is referred to as the Principal Act. 4Section 3 amended (Interpretation) Section 3(1) of the Principal Act is amended as follows: (a) by omitting "water, electricity" from paragraph (a) of the definition of service and substituting "water"; (b) by inserting "or the supply of electricity" after "charge is payable" in the definition of service ; (c) by omitting the definition of State charge and substituting the following definition: State charge means – (a) a tax, or duty, imposed for the public revenue purposes of the State; and (b) a payment, in the form of a royalty, payable to the Crown or a Government Business Enterprise for the exclusive right to access and market a natural resource; 5Section 5 substituted Section 5 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is substituted: 5Declaration of service (1)  By notice published in the Gazette, the Minister may declare the supply of a good or service to be a service. (2)  The Minister may not declare the supply of electricity to be a service under subsection (1) . 6Section 32 amended (Limitations on investigation and reporting) Section 32 of the Principal Act is amended as follows: (a) by omitting subsections (1) and (2) and substituting the following subsection: (1)  The Commission must not investigate the terms of a contract, or the terms of a contract which is a member of a class of contracts, if that investigation is prohibited by the requirement to investigate under section 24 . (b) by omitting from subsection (3)(a) " subsection (2) (a) or (b) " and substituting " subsection (1) "; (c) by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (a) in subsection (3) : (ab) a contract or the terms of a contract if the Commission was prohibited by this section from investigating the contract or terms at the time the contract or terms came into the possession of the Commission; or

[Second reading presentation speech made in:

House of Assembly on 27 MAY 1998

Legislative Council on 10 JUNE 1998]