Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1982 No. 2421

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Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations2 (Amendment)

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

Dated 23 September 1982.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RALPH J. HUNT

Minister of State for Transport and Construction

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 October 1982.

Interpretation

2. Regulation 13 of the Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “tonnage” and substituting the following definition:

“ ‘tonnage’, in relation to a ship, means—

(a) where the net tonnage of the ship has been determined in accordance with a law of the Commonwealth or of any other country, being a law giving effect to the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969—the net tonnage so determined; and

(b) in any other case—the register tonnage of the ship.”.

Rate of light dues

3. Regulation 15 of the Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting “41 cents” and substituting “49 cents”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

“(2) In sub-regulation (1), a reference to a ton does not include a part of a ton.”.

Vessels exempted

4. Regulation 20 of the Lighthouses and Light Dues Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (f) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(f) a ship the tonnage of which does not exceed 30 tons;”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 September 1982.

2. Statutory Rules 1952 No. 79 as amended by 1956 No. 64; 1957 No. 59; 1962 No. 87; 1963 No. 99; 1965 No. 137; 1967 No. 132; 1968 No. 109; 1969 No. 108; 1970 No. 138; 1971 Nos. 18 and 129; 1972 No. 154; 1973 No. 195; 1976 No. 211; 1977 No. 173.