Ozone Protection (Licence Fees—Manufacture) Act 1995

No. 125 of 1995

CONTENTS

Section

1. Short title

2. Commencement

3. Interpretation

4. Licence fees

5. Regulations

Ozone Protection (Licence Fees—Manufacture) Act 1995

No. 125 of 1995

An Act to provide for payment of fees in respect of the manufacture of HCFCs and methyl bromide under licences granted under the Ozone Protection Act 1989

[Assented to 2 November 1995]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Ozone Protection (Licence Fees— Manufacture) Act 1995.

Commencement

2. This Act commences on 1 January 1996.

Interpretation

3. Expressions used in this Act have the same meanings as in the Ozone Protection Act 1989.

Licence fees

4.(1) There is payable to the Commonwealth by a licensee who holds a controlled substances licence, in respect of each quarter during which the licence is in force, a fee calculated at the rate fixed by the regulations for HCFCs and methyl bromide manufactured by the licensee during that quarter.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), if a controlled substances licence is in force for only part of a particular quarter, the part is taken to be a quarter.

Regulations

5. The Governor-General may make regulations fixing a rate for the purposes of subsection 4(1).

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 29 August 1995

Senate on 18 September 1995]