Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Act 1987

No. 159 of 1987

An Act to amend the Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charge) Act 1985

[Assented to 26 December 1987]

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

Short title etc.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Act 1987.

(2) The Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charge) Act 19851 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

Title

3. The title of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “a charge on” and substituting “charges in relation to”.

Short title

4. The short title of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “Charge” and substituting “Charges”.

Imposition of charges

5. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting from subsection (1) “charge is imposed on” and substituting “charges are imposed, in accordance with the regulations, in relation to”;

(b) by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:

“(1a) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations may provide for the imposition of a charge on the registration of an establishment or class of establishments and also for the imposition of charges during the registration of the establishment or class of establishments.”; and

(c) by omitting from subsection (2) “Subsection (1)” and substituting “This section”.

Rates of charges

6. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) by omitting “charge in respect of and substituting “a charge in relation to”; and

(b) by omitting all the words after “regulations”.

7. Sections 8 and 9 of the Principal Act are repealed and the following sections are substituted:

By whom charge payable

“8. A charge in relation to the registration of an establishment is payable by the person who is the registered occupier of the establishment when the amount of the charge is due for payment.

Regulations

“9. The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters:

(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.”.

NOTE

1. No. 117, 1985.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 7 October 1987

Senate on 2 November 1987]