MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY REGULATIONS 2018 (F2018L01301) EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

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MARINE NAVIGATION (REGULATORY FUNCTIONS) LEVY REGULATIONS 2018 (F2018L01301)

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Marine Navigation (Regulatory Functions) Levy Regulations 2018

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret'd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 13 September 2018

Peter Cosgrove

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command

Michael McCormack

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

5............ Definitions..................................................................................................................... 1

6............ Levy rates...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1--Repeals 3

Marine Navigation (Regulatory Functions) Levy Regulations 1992 3

1 Name

This instrument is the Marine Navigation (Regulatory Functions) Levy Regulations 2018.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this instrument 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. The whole of this instrument	1 October 2018.	1 October 2018

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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

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

3 Authority

This instrument is made under the Marine Navigation (Regulatory Functions) Levy Act 1991.

4 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5 Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Marine Navigation (Regulatory Functions) Levy Act 1991.

6 Levy rates

(1) For the purposes of paragraph 7(2)(a) of the Act, 17 cents is prescribed as the levy rate for each of the first 5,000 tons of a ship's tonnage.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph 7(2)(b) of the Act, 17.1 cents is prescribed as the levy rate for each ton by which a ship's tonnage is more than 5,000 tons but not more than 20,000 tons.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph 7(2)(c) of the Act, 17 cents is prescribed as the levy rate for each ton by which a ship's tonnage is more than 20,000 tons but not more than 50,000 tons.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph 7(2)(d) of the Act, 15.5 cents is prescribed as the levy rate for each ton by which a ship's tonnage is more than 50,000 tons.