Trade Practices Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 2) (Cth)

Trade Practices Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 2)1

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 572

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Trade Practices Act 1974.

Dated 22 March 2001

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

JOHN ANDERSON

Minister for Transport and Regional Services

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Trade Practices Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 2).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3Amendment of Trade Practices Regulations 1974

Schedule 1 amends the Trade Practices Regulations 1974.

Schedule 1Amendments

  

(regulation 3)

[1]Regulation 30

substitute

30Office of the Registrar

 The Registrar must notify in the Gazette any change in the address of the office of the Registrar.

[2]Paragraph 32 (p)

omit

agreement.

insert

agreement;

[3]After paragraph 32 (p)

insert

• (q)

  whether the agreement is an outwards conference agreement or an inwards conference agreement.

[4]Regulation 33, heading

substitute

33Register of designated shipper bodies: prescribed particulars

[5]Paragraph 33 (a)

after

name

insert

and kind

[6]Paragraph 33 (e)

substitute

• (e)

  the telephone and fax numbers, postal address and e-mail address (if any), of the shipper body;

[7]Paragraphs 34 (c) and (d)

omit each mention of

Tribunal

substitute

Commission

 

[8]Paragraph 34 (d)

omit

Tribunal’s

substitute

Commission’s

[9]Paragraphs 35 (f)

omit

Tribunal

substitute

Commission

[10]Paragraph 36 (a)

substitute

• (a)

  the telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address (if any), of the agent;

[11]Paragraph 38 (3) (f)

omit

benefit to Australian exporters;

insert

 benefit:

• (i)

  for an outwards conference agreement, to Australian exporters; or

• (ii)

  for an inwards conference agreement, to Australian importers;

[12]Paragraph 38 (3) (h)

before

a statement

insert

for an outwards conference agreement —

[13]After regulation 38

insert

38ASpecial circumstances for inwards conference agreement

 For paragraph 10.28 (1) (ba) of the Act, there are taken to be special circumstances if the inwards conference agreement has provisions that make the agreement substantially incompatible with the principal objects of Part X of the Act.

[14]Regulation 39

substitute

39Notice about negotiations

• (1)

  For subsection 10.29 (1B) of the Act, a notice must be in writing and include:

  • (a)

    the title of the conference agreement; and

  • (b)

    the date on which the shipper bodies notified, or propose to notify, the parties to the agreement that they wish to negotiate.

• (2)

  For subsection 10.29 (2) of the Act, a notice must be in writing and include:

  • (a)

    the title of the conference agreement; and

  • (b)

    the date on which the shipper bodies notified, or propose to notify, the parties to the agreement that they do not wish to negotiate; and

  • (c)

    the reasons why the shipper bodies do not wish to negotiate.

[15]Paragraph 40 (3) (h)

omit

benefit to Australian exporters;

insert

 benefit:

• (i)

  for an outwards conference agreement, to Australian exporters; or

• (ii)

  for an inwards conference agreement, to Australian importers;

[16]Paragraph 40 (3) (j)

before

a statement

insert

for an outwards conference agreement —

[17]Paragraph 42 (2) (d)

omit

and

[18]Paragraph 42 (2) (e)

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• (e)

  for an outwards conference agreement — the effect of the event on the provision of outwards liner cargo shipping services;

• (f)

  for an inwards conference agreement — the effect of the event on the provision of inwards liner cargo shipping services.

[19]Subparagraph 43 (2) (g) (i)

omit

Tribunal

substitute

Commission

[20]Subregulation 45 (1)

substitute

• (1)

  A notice under subsection 10.72 (1) of the Act must be in accordance with Form 7 of Schedule 3 and be accompanied by a copy of the instrument appointing the agent.

[21]Paragraph 46 (b)

after

post

insert

or e-mail

[22]Schedule 2, item 5

substitute

5. Application for registration of ocean carrier’s agent 100

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1974 No. 170, as amended by 1974 Nos. 175 and 247; 1975 No. 13; 1977 No. 100 (void and of no effect); 1978 No. 212; 1979 Nos. 1 and 87; 1980 No. 39; 1982 No. 68; 1989 No. 199; 1992 Nos. 71 and 92; 1993 No. 21; 1995 Nos. 248 and 330; 1996 No. 20; 1997 Nos. 53, 86 and 322; 1998 No. 365; 1999 No. 251; 2000 Nos. 163, 164 and 186; 2001 No. 40.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette