Passenger Movement Charge (Timor Sea Treaty) Amendment Act 2003

No. 11, 2003

An Act to amend the Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978, and for related purposes

Passenger Movement Charge (Timor Sea Treaty) Amendment Act 2003

No. 11, 2003

An Act to amend the Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978, and for related purposes

[Assented to 2 April 2003]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Passenger Movement Charge (Timor Sea Treaty) Amendment Act 2003.

2 Commencement

This Act is taken to have commenced on 20 May 2002.

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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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

Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978

1 Section 3 (definition of Area A of the Zone of Cooperation)

Repeal the definition.

2 Section 3 (definition of installation in Area A)

Repeal the definition.

3 Section 3

Insert:

installation in the Joint Petroleum Development Area means a resources installation, or a sea installation, that is attached to the seabed in the Joint Petroleum Development Area.

4 Section 3

Insert:

Joint Petroleum Development Area has the same meaning as in the Petroleum (Timor Sea Treaty) Act 2003.

5 Paragraph 4(1)(c)

Omit “Area A”, substitute “the Joint Petroleum Development Area”.

6 Paragraph 4(2)(a)

Omit “Area A”, substitute “the Joint Petroleum Development Area”.

7 Paragraph 4(2)(b)

Omit “Area A”, substitute “the Joint Petroleum Development Area”.

8 Subsection 4(3)

Omit “Area A” (wherever occurring), substitute “the Joint Petroleum Development Area”.

9 Subsection 4(4)

Omit “Area A” (wherever occurring), substitute “the Joint Petroleum Development Area”.

10 Paragraph 5(b)

Omit “Area A”, substitute “the Joint Petroleum Development Area”.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 5 March 2003

Senate on 6 March 2003]

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