States Grants (Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave) Amendment Act 1977 (Cth)

STATES GRANTS (COAL MINING INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE LEAVE) AMENDMENT ACT 1977

No. 137 of 1977

An Act to amend the States Grants (Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave) Act 1949.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave) Amendment Act 1977.

Commencement

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 17 August 1977.

Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave Fund

3. Section 3 of the States Grants (Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave) Act 1949 is amended by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-section (3) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(a) amounts equal to amounts raised as duties of Excise on—

(i) coal in respect of which an entry authorizing the removal of the coal from a coal mine was made before the hour of 2 o’clock in the morning by standard time in the Australian Capital Territory on 17 August 1977; or

(ii) coal removed before that hour, without entry, in pursuance of sub-section 24(2) of the Coal Excise Act 1949;

“(aa) amounts equal to two-thirds of the amounts from time to time raised as duties of Excise on coal, other than coal to which paragraph (a) applies; and”.