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Protection of the Sea (Imposition of

Contributions to Oil Pollution

Compensation Fund—Excise) Act 1993

No. 39 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 excise

 

 The Parliament of Australia enacts:

[Assented to 15 October 1993]

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

 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.

 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.

 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 excise within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.

 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]