Ozone Protection
(Licence Fees—Imports) Act 1989
No.
8 of 1989
An
Act to provide for payment of fees in respect of import of scheduled substances
under licences granted under the Ozone
Protection Act 1989
[Assented to 16 March 1989]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the
Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as
follows:
Short
title
1. This Act may be cited
as the Ozone Protection (Licence
Fees—Imports) Act 1989.
Commencement
2. This Act commences on
the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Interpretation
3. Expressions used in
this Act have the same meanings as in the Ozone
Protection Act 1989.
Licence
fees
4. (1) Subject to subsection (2), there is payable to the Commonwealth
by the licensee, in respect of each quarter during which a licence is in force,
a fee calculated at the rate fixed by the regulations for scheduled substances
imported by the licensee during that quarter.
(2) A fee is not payable
under subsection (1) in respect of halons imported before the beginning of the
first halon quota period.
(3) For the purposes of
subsection (1), where a licence is in force for only part of a particular
quarter, that part shall be taken to be a quarter.
Regulations
5. The Governor-General may
make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, fixing a rate for the
purposes of subsection 4 (1).
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House
of Representatives on 10 November 1988
Senate
on 25 November 1988