STATUTORY RULES.

1948. No.   .

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COLONIAL LIGHT DUES (RATES) ACT 1932-1936.*

WHEREAS by section 3 of the Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 it is provided that the Colonial light dues fixed by His Majesty the King in Council by Order made under section 670 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 on the seventeenth day of December, 1931, being in respect of each ship which passes and derives benefit from any lighthouse specified in the first part of the Schedule to the said Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 or from the buoy specified in that Schedule, at the rate of one penny per ton of the register tonnage of that ship for every occasion on which the ship passes and derives benefit from any of those lighthouses or from that buoy, are imposed with respect to each voyage of a ship, British or foreign, which is at any port, harbour or place in Australia and which, in the course of any voyage has passed and derived benefit from any of those lighthouses or from that buoy and in respect of which benefit the Collector is not satisfied that Colonial light dues have already been paid in some part of His Majesty’s Dominions:

And whereas it is further provided by section 3 of the said Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 that where any rate of Colonial Light dues is fixed by His Majesty by Order in Council in substitution for the rate specified in that section, and the imposition in the Commonwealth of the rate so fixed is authorized by the regulations, that Act shall thereupon have effect as if Colonial light dues were imposed in the Commonwealth at the rate so fixed in lieu of the rate, specified in that section, for which the rate so fixed is in substitution:

And whereas it is provided by section 5 of the said Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 that the Governor-General may, after His Majesty has, by Order in Council, fixed any rate of Colonial light dues in substitution for the rate specified in section 3 of that Act, make regulations authorizing the imposition in the Commonwealth of the rate so fixed:

And whereas by an Order in Council made under section 670 of the said Merchant Shipping Act 1894 on the twenty-sixth day of January, 1948, His Majesty the King in Council fixed a rate of Colonial light dues in substitution for the rate of such dues specified in section 3 of the Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 in respect of each ship which passes and derives benefit from any lighthouse specified in the first part of the Schedule to the said Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936 or from the buoy specified in that Schedule:

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on                                                                                        , 1948.

5224.—Price 3d.                                                                                     10/22.9.1948.

Now therefore I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following regulations under the Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936.

Dated this twelfth day of November, 1948.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. P. ASHLEY

Minister of State for Shipping and Fuel.

Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“the Act” means the Colonial Light Dues (Rates) Act 1932-1936;

“the Merchant Shipping Act” means the Imperial Act known as the Merchant Shipping Act 1894.

Authorization of imposition of substituted rate.

3. The imposition in the Commonwealth of Colonial light dues at the rate fixed in substitution for the rate specified in section 3 of the Act by His Majesty the King in Council by Order made under section 670 of the Merchant Shipping Act on the twenty-sixth day of January, 1948, being dues in respect of each ship which passes and derives benefit from any lighthouse specified in the first part of the Schedule to the Act or from the buoy specified in that Schedule, is authorized at the rate of three pence per ton of the register tonnage of that ship for every occasion on which the ship passes and derives benefit from any of those lighthouses or from that buoy.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.