EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1989 No 381
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Land Transport and Shipping Support
Subject -Â Navigation Act 1912
Navigation (Coasting Trade) Regulations (Amendment)
Navigation (Compass) Regulations (Amendment)
Navigation (Tonnage Measurement) Regulations (Amendment)
Subsection 425(1) of the Navigation Act 1912 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for the carrying out or giving effect to the Act or for the conduct of any business under the Act, and in particular prescribing matters providing for and in relation to the fixing of fees to be paid in respect of any matters under the Act.
The abovementioned Regulations are made pursuant to that subsection.
Fees payable under the Act for services provided under the Act were last adjusted in October 1988. In accordance with the Government’s policy of cost recovery in relation to those services it is necessary to amend the abovementioned Regulations to meet cost increases since the last adjustment.
Details of the amending Regulations are given in the following Attachments:
Attachment 1 - Navigation (Coasting Trade) Regulations
Attachment 2 - Navigation (Compass) Regulations
Attachment 3 - Navigation (Tonnage Measurement) Regulations.
Attachment 1
Navigation (Coasting Trade) Regulations (Amendments
The amending Regulations amend the Navigation (Coasting Trade) Regulations as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 1989.
Regulation 2 amends the existing Regulations by increasing fees for the processing of applications in relation to coasting trade permits and licences by, with the exception of paragraph 25(5)(c), up to 25 per cent.
The fee payable under paragraph 25(5)(c), being the fee for a continuing permit to operate in the coasting trade, is increased from $860 to $2,000. Continuing permits have not been issued for approximately 20 years. Although the fee has been increased several times in that period, this is the first year the service has been assessed for cost recovery purposes, necessitating a proportionally larger increase than fees for other services.