Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1962. No. 87.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE LIGHTHOUSES ACT 1911-1957.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Lighthouses Act 1911-1957.

Dated this twentieth day of September, 1962.

DALLAS BROOKS

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

 

Amendments of the Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations.

Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the first day of October, 1962.

Rate of light dues.

2. Regulation 15 of the Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations is amended by omitting the words “One shilling” and inserting in their stead the words “One shilling and threepence”.

3. Regulation 17 of the Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Refund of light dues.

“17.—(1.) Where a ship in respect of which light dues have been paid for a quarter in accordance with sub-regulation (1.) of the last preceding regulation has been prevented from putting to sea for a continuous number of days exceeding thirty, any one of which occurs in that quarter, a Collector may refund in respect of each such day that occurs in that quarter an amount ascertained by dividing by ninety-one the amount of light dues paid in respect of the ship for that quarter.

“(2.) Where—

(a) light dues have been paid in respect of a ship in accordance with paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3.) of the last preceding regulation;

(b) light dues have also been paid in respect of the ship in accordance with paragraph (c) of that sub-regulation; and

(c) the ship has been prevented from putting to sea from a port in Australia for a continuous number of days exceeding thirty, any one of which occurs in the period of three months that commences on the day on which the light dues referred to in the last preceding paragraph became payable,

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 27th September, 1962.

  Statutory Rules 1952, No. 79, as amended by Statutory Rules 1956, No. 64; and 1957, No. 59.

7715/62,—Price 3d. 9/30.8.1962.

 

a Collector may refund in respect of each such day that occurs in that period of three months an amount ascertained by dividing by ninety-one the amount of light dues that became payable, under paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (3.) of the last preceding regulation, on the commencement of that period of three months.

“(3.) For the purposes of this regulation, a reference to a ship that has been prevented from putting to sea shall be read as a reference to a ship that has been prevented from putting to sea—

(a) by reason of the fact that it was out of commission;

(b) by reason of the fact that it was laid up for repairs; or

(c) consequent upon an industrial dispute.”.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.