EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1989 No. 384
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Land Transport and Shipping Support
Subject -Â Shipping Registration Act 1981
Shipping Registration Regulations (Amendment)
Section 83 of the Shipping Registration Act 1981 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
Section 83 of the Act further provides that the regulations may make provision for and in relation to the imposition and recovery of fees in respect of various services provided under the Act.
The Shipping Registration Regulations (the Regulations) are made pursuant to that section.
Fees payable in respect of 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 Regulations to meet cost increases since the last adjustment.
Details of the amending Regulations are as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations shall come into operation on 1 January 1990.
Regulation 2 omits and substitutes Schedule 3 of the Regulations, increasing the fees specified by 24 per cent.