Statutory Rules
1976 No. 210
REGULATION UNDER THE POLLUTION OF THE SEA BY OIL (SHIPPING LEVY) ACT 1972.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Pollution of the Sea by Oil (Shipping Levy) Act 1972.
Dated this twenty-second day of September, 1976.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
PETER NIXON
Minister of State for Transport.
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Amendment of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil (Shipping Levy) Regulations†
Regulation 4 of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil (Shipping Levy) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation is substituted:—
Rate of levy.
“ 4. (1) For the purposes of section 5 of the Act, the rate of levy for a quarter imposed in accordance with section 4 of the Act in respect of a ship is 0.8 cent per ton of the tonnage of that ship.
“ (2) The rate of levy prescribed by sub-regulation (1) is applicable to the quarter commencing on 1 October 1976 and all subsequent quarters.”.
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 28 September 1976.
† Statutory Rules 1973, No. 186.