Protection of the Sea (Shipping Levy) Amendment Act 1984

No. 17 of 1984

An Act to amend the Protection of the Sea (Shipping Levy) Act 1981

[Assented to 26 April 1984]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Protection of the Sea (Shipping Levy) Amendment Act 1984.

(2) The Protection of the Sea (Shipping Levy) Act 19811 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which section 5 of the Shipping Registration Amendment Act 1984 comes into operation.

Application of Act

3. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting “of which exceeds 100 tons” and substituting “length of which is not less than 24 metres”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:

“(2) The tonnage length of a ship shall be determined, for the purposes of sub-section (1), in the same manner as it is determined for the purposes of the Shipping Registration Act 1981.”.

NOTE

1. No. 34, 1981.