Protection of the Sea (Imposition of
Contributions to Oil Pollution
Compensation Fund—Customs)
Act 1993

No. 42 of 1993

An Act to impose contributions payable under the
Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Fund)
Act 1993, so far as those contributions are duties of customs

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

[Assented to 15 October 1993]

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Protection of the Sea (Imposition of Contributions to Oil Pollution Compensation Fund—Customs) Act 1993.

Commencement

2. This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, as the case requires, on the commencement of Chapter 1 of the Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Fund) Act 1993.

Application of the Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Fund) Act 1993

3. Sections 4 and 5 of the Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Fund) Act 1993 apply in relation to this Act in a corresponding way to the way in which they apply in relation to that Act.

Imposition of contributions

4.(1) Contributions payable under the Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Fund) Act 1993 are imposed.

(2) This section imposes contributions only so far as those contributions are duties of customs within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.

Act does not impose tax on property of a State

5.(1) This Act does not impose a tax on property of any kind belonging to a State.

(2) In this section, “property of any kind belonging to a State” has the same meaning as in section 114 of the Constitution.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 5 May 1993

Senate on 13 May 1993]