Pollution of the Sea By Oil (Shipping Levy) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 1711

 

Pollution of the Sea by Oil (Shipping Levy) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Pollution of the Sea by Oil (Shipping Levy) Act 1972.

Dated 25 June 1981.

STANLEY BURBURY

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER NIXON

Minister of State for Primary Industry for and on

behalf of the Minister of State for Transport

 

Rate of levy

1. Regulation 4 of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil (Shipping Levy) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

“4. (1) For the purposes of section 5 of the Act, the rate of levy for a quarter is 2 cents per ton of the tonnage of a ship.

“(2) The rate of levy prescribed by sub-regulation (1) is applicable to the quarter commencing on 1 July 1981 and all subsequent quarters.”.

Commencement

2. Regulation 1 shall come into operation on 1 July 1981.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 June 1981.

2. Statutory Rules 1973 No. 186; 1976 No. 210.