Pollution of the Sea by Oil (Shipping Levy Collection) Amendment Act 1979
No. 100 of 1979
An Act to amend section 3 of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil (Shipping Levy Collection) Act 1972 in consequence of certain amendments of the Navigation Act 1912.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Pollution of the Sea by Oil (Shipping Levy Collection) Amendment Act 1979.
(2) The Pollution of the Sea by Oil (Shipping Levy Collection) Act 1972 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
Commencement
2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation immediately after the commencement of sections 5, 6, 7 and 9 of the Navigation Act 1972.
Definitions
3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “net registered tonnage” from the definition of “tonnage” and substituting “register tonnage”.