Liquefied
Petroleum Gas (Grants) Amendment Act 1985
No.
135 of 1985
An Act to end
financial assistance under the Liquefied
Petroleum Gas (Grants) Act 1980, and for related purposes
[Assented to 28 November 1985]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Grants) Amendment Act 1985.
(2) The Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Grants) Act 19801 is in this
Act referred to as the Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come
into operation, or shall be deemed to have come into operation, as the case
requires, on 1 October 1985.
Interpretation
3. Section 3 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting “31 March 1987” from the definition of “period
to which this Act applies” and substituting “30 September 1985”.
Consequential
amendments
4. The Principal Act is
amended as set out in the Schedule.
Termination
of schemes, &c.
5. (1) The schemes in
operation immediately before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be
revoked, or to have been revoked, as the case requires, on that commencement.
(2) The Principal Act or a
scheme shall not be taken to require, or to have required at any time (whether
before or after the commencement of this Act), payments by a State to a person
in respect of—
(a)
liquefied petroleum gas sold by the person after the commencement of this Act;
or
(b)
liquefied petroleum gas or naphtha delivered to the person after the
commencement of this Act.
(3) The Principal Act shall
not be taken to require, or to have required at any time (whether before or
after the commencement of this Act), the payment to a State, by way of
financial assistance, of amounts equal to amounts expended by the State in
making payments to a person in respect of—
(a)
liquefied petroleum gas sold by the person after the commencement of this Act;
or
(b)
liquefied petroleum gas or naphtha delivered to the person after the
commencement of this Act.
(4) Without limiting the
generality of the preceding sub-sections, those sub-sections apply in relation
to the operation of section 13 of the Principal Act.
(5) In this section, “scheme”
and “State” have the same respective meanings as in the Principal Act.
SCHEDULE Section 4
CONSEQUENTIAL
AMENDMENTS
Sub-section
6 (9)—
Omit the sub-section, substitute
the following sub-section:
“(9)
For the purposes of sub-section (8), 1 October 1984 and 1 April 1985 are
prescribed days.”.
Sub-paragraph
6a (1) (c) (ii)—
Omit the sub-paragraph, substitute
the following sub-paragraph:
“(ii)
the period of 6 months commencing on 1 April 1985,”.
Sub-paragraph
7 (8) (a) (iv)—
Omit the sub-paragraph, substitute
the following sub-paragraph:
“(iv)
the period of 6 months commencing on 1 April 1985;”.
SCHEDULE—continued
Paragraph
7a (1a) (e)—
Omit the paragraph.
Paragraph
7a (1a) (f)—
Omit the paragraph.
Sub-paragraph
7a (5) (a) (i)—
Omit “, the fourth consumption
period and the fifth consumption period”, substitute “and the fourth
consumption period”.
Sub-paragraph
7a (5) (a) (ii)—
Omit “, the third consumption
period and the sixth consumption period”, substitute “and the third consumption
period”.
Sub-section
7a (8a)—
Omit “and in relation to the fifth
consumption period”.
Sub-section
7a (8b)—
Omit
the sub-section.
NOTE
1. No. 37, 1980,
as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 173, 1980; No. 97, 1982: and No.
54, 1984.
[Minister’s
second reading speech made in—
Senate
on 22 August 1985
House
of Representatives on 18 November 1985