Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (InterState Voyages) Act 2016

 

No. 2, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003, and for related purposes

 

 

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments relating to interState voyages

Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003

 

 

Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (Inter-State Voyages) Act 2016

No. 2, 2016

 

 

 

An Act to amend the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003, and for related purposes

[Assented to 10 February 2016]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (InterState Voyages) Act 2016.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

10 February 2016

2.  Schedule 1

A single day to be fixed by Proclamation.

However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period.

10 August 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3  Schedules

  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 1Amendments relating to interState voyages

 

Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003

1  Section 10 (definition of interState voyage)

Repeal the definition.

2  Paragraphs 16(1)(a), (b) and (c)

Omit “or interState”.

3  At the end of subsection 16(1)

Add:

Note: Regulations under this Act may make different provision with respect to different kinds of regulated Australian ships: see subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

 

 

 

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 12 August 2015

Senate on 25 November 2015]

 

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