EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1988 No. 239
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Land Transport and Shipping Support
Subject - 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 1987. 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 (Amendment)
The amending Regulations amend the Navigation (Coasting Trade) Regulations as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations shall come into operation on 1 October 1988.
Regulation 2 amends the existing Regulations by:
(a) increasing the fee payable under paragraph 25(5)(a) for an application for a single voyage permit for the carriage of passengers from $15 to $16;
(b) increasing the fee payable under subparagraph 25(5)(b)(i) for an application for a single voyage permit for the carriage of cargo from $170 to $255;
(c) increasing the fee payable under subparagraph 25(5)(b)(ii) for priority to be given to an application for a single voyage permit for the carriage of cargo from $340 to $510;
(d) increasing the fee payable under paragraph 25(5)(c) for an application for a continuing permit to operate in the coasting trade from $800 to $860;
(e) increasing the fee payable under subregulation 26(2) for the issue of a certificate entitling a ship to exemption from an Order made by the Governor-General under section 422A of the Act from $15 to $16; and
(f) increasing the fee payable under regulation 30 for an application for a licence to engage in the coasting trade from $15 to $16.