Interstate Road Transport Charge Amendment Act 2002

No. 18, 2002

An Act to amend the Interstate Road Transport Charge Act 1985

Contents

1 Short title...................................

2 Commencement...............................

3 Schedule(s)..................................

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Interstate Road Transport Charge Act 1985

Interstate Road Transport Charge Amendment Act 2002

No. 18, 2002

An Act to amend the Interstate Road Transport Charge Act 1985

[Assented to 4 April 2002]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Interstate Road Transport Charge Amendment Act 2002.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Interstate Road Transport Charge Act 1985

1  Section 6

Repeal the section, substitute:

5A  Automatic increase of amounts of charge

 (1) This section applies to the charges determined in accordance with the Schedule (including charges whose amounts have already been changed by a previous application or applications of this section or of regulations made for the purposes of section 6).

 (2) At the start of 1 July of each year, beginning with 1 July 2002, the amount of each of those charges is increased, from the amount that applied immediately before that 1 July, by the same percentage amount as is determined for the purposes of section 3A of the Road Transport Charges (Australian Capital Territory) Act 1993.

Note: In some circumstances, this rule can result in no increases occurring on a particular 1 July: see Part 4 of the Schedule to the Road Transport Charges (Australian Capital Territory) Act 1993.

 (3) As soon as practicable, the Secretary must publish in the Gazette a statement setting out the new amounts of charge that apply under this section.

6  Regulations may decrease amounts of charge

 (1) The regulations may decrease the amounts of charge that apply under sections 5 and 5A in relation to a year.

 (2) Such regulations must not decrease any amount of charge by more than 5% of the amount of charge that would apply in relation to the year if no regulations were made for the purposes of this section in relation to that year.

2  The Schedule (note appearing after the Schedule heading)

After “Sections 5”, insert “, 5A”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 14 February 2002

Senate on 14 March 2002]