States Grants
(Petroleum Products) Amendment Act 1983
No. 102 of 1983
An Act to amend
the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 1965, and for related purposes
[Assented to 23 November 1983]
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited
as the States Grants (Petroleum Products) Amendment Act 1983.
(2) The States Grants (Petroleum Products) Act 19651
is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
Commencement
2. (1) The provisions of this Act (other than section 3 and
sub-section 4 (2)) shall come into operation on 1 January 1984.
(2) Section 3 and
sub-section 4 (2) shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by
Proclamation.
Title
3. The title of the
Principal Act is amended by inserting “and the Northern Territory” after “States”.
Interpretation
4. (1) Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “power
kerosene,”.
(2) Section 2 of the
Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following
sub-section:
“(2) A reference in this Act to a
State shall be read as including a reference to the Northern Territory.”.
Provisions
of scheme
5. Section 5 of the
Principal Act is amended—
(a)
by omitting from sub-section (2) “power kerosene,”;
(b)
by omitting from paragraph (5) (a) “at places to which the scheme applies” and
substituting “, and delivery by them to places to which the scheme applies,”;
and
(c)
by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:
“(7)
The scheme may make provision with respect to the fixing or determination of
rates of payment in respect of eligible petroleum products in relation to
places in the Commonwealth that are not specified in the schedule to the
scheme.”.
Disallowance
of amendment of schedule to scheme
6. Section 7a of the Principal Act is amended by
omitting from sub-section (2) “Acts
Interpretation Act 1901-1973 (other than paragraphs (a) and (b) of
sub-section (1), sub-section (2) and sub-section (6)” and substituting “Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (other
than paragraphs (1) (a) and (b), and sub-sections (2) and (6),”.
Evidence
of scheme
7. Section 8 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting “Evidence
Act 1905-1964” and substituting “Evidence
Act 1905”.
Overpayments
8. Section 11 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting “of this Act”.
Indemnity
9. Section 12 of the
Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2) “The last three
preceding sections” and substituting “Sections 9, 10 and 11”.
Petroleum
Products Subsidy Act (N.T.)
10. Notwithstanding
anything contained in the Petroleum
Products Subsidy Act of the Northern Territory as amended and in force from
time to time, power kerosene is not an eligible petroleum product for the
purposes of that Act.
NOTE
1. No. 27, 1965,
as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 153, 1965; No. 90, 1969; No. 112,
1973; No. 12, 1978; and No. 80, 1982.