Pearling Amendment Act 1998 (WA)

Western Australia

Pearling Amendment Act 1998

No. 55 of 1998

An Act to amend the Pearling Act 1990.

[Assented to 14 December 1998]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

1.             Short title

This Act may be cited as the Pearling Amendment Act 1998.

Pearling Amendment Act 1998

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2.             Commencement

This Act comes into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3.             The Act amended

The amendments in this Act are to the Pearling Act 1990*.

[* Act No. 88 of 1990.

For subsequent amendments see 1997 Index to Legislation of

Western Australia, Table 1, p. 174.]

4.             Section 23 amended

Section 23(1) is amended by inserting after “appropriate annual fee” —

“

or, if applicable, the first instalment of the appropriate annual

fee,

”.

5.             Section 27 amended

After section 27(7) the following subsection is inserted —

“

(8)

If regulations made under section 60 provide that the

payment of an annual fee may be made by instalments,

a reference in this section, other than subsections (1)

and (3), to the annual fee shall be taken to include a

reference to the appropriate instalment or instalments

of the annual fee.

”.

Pearling Amendment Act 1998

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6.             Schedule 2 amended

Schedule 2 is amended by deleting item 10 and the following item is inserted instead —

“

10.      Fees for the purposes of this Act, including —

(a)	differential and periodic fees;
(b)	allowing the payment of fees by instalments; and
(c)	providing for the payment of a surcharge if the payment of any fee is made by instalments.

”.