EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Issued by the Authority for the Minister for Shipping and Aviation Support
Subject - Shipping Registration Act 1981
Shipping Registration Regulations (Amendment)
1990 No 313
Section 83 of the Shipping Registration Act 1981 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of 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.
Fees payable in respect of services provided under the Act were last adjusted in January 1990. 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. The greater part of the proposed fee increase is to meet new overhead costs associated with providing these services.
The services provided under the Regulations relate to the registration of ships and incumbrances and to the provision of information from the Register.
Details of the amending Regulations are as follows:
Regulation 1 provides that the Regulations come into operation on 15 October 1990.
Regulation 2 omits and substitute the fees specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations, increasing the fees by up to 84 per cent.
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