Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment (Fees) Ordinance 2018 (Cth)

Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment (Fees) Ordinance 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Ordinance.

Dated 29 May 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Dr John McVeigh

Minister for Regional Development, Territories and Local Government

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Part 1—Amendments  2

Norfolk Island Applied Laws Ordinance 2016  2

Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015  2

Part 2—Application of amendments  3

Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015  3

1  Name

This Ordinance is the Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment (Fees) Ordinance 2018.

2  Commencement

(1)  Each provision of this Ordinance specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this Ordinance	The day after this Ordinance is registered.	1 June 2018

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this Ordinance as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Ordinance.

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Ordinance. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Ordinance.

3  Authority

This Ordinance is made under section 19A of the Norfolk Island Act 1979.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this Ordinance is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Ordinance has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Part 1—Amendments

Norfolk Island Applied Laws Ordinance 2016

1  After item 44 of Schedule 4

Insert:

44A  Subsection 608(2)

After “or any other Act”, insert “, any other law in force in the Territory of Norfolk Island”.

44B  At the end of section 610

Add:

Note: This section does not apply to a law continued in force by section 16 or 16A of the Norfolk Island Act 1979 as such a law is not an Act for the purposes of this section.

Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015

2  At the end of item 167 of Schedule 1

Add:

12BA  Special rules relating to fees for services provided by the Norfolk Island Regional Council

(1) The Norfolk Island Regional Council may, in accordance with Part 10 of Chapter 15 of the Local Government Act 1993 (NSW) (NI), determine the amount of one or more fees for a service provided by the Council despite an enactment.

(2)  If the Norfolk Island Regional Council does so, then:

(a) an enactment has no effect to the extent that that Part is inconsistent (within the meaning of section 18A of the Norfolk Island Act 1979) with the enactment; and

(b)  the fee or fees payable for the service are the fees determined under that Part, despite an enactment.

Part 2—Application of amendments

Norfolk Island Continued Laws Ordinance 2015

1  In the appropriate position in Part 2 of Schedule 1

Insert:

Division 14—Application provisions relating to the Norfolk Island Legislation Amendment (Fees) Ordinance 2018

375  Application of amendments relating to fees

Subsection 12BA(2) of the Interpretation Act 1979 (Norfolk Island), as inserted by the amending Schedule, applies in relation to a service provided on or after 1 July 2018 (whether or not an application or request for the service is made before, on or after that day).