Export Inspection (Service Charge) Amendment Act 2014
No. 39, 2014
An Act to amend legislation relating to exports, and for related purposes
[Assented to 25 June 2014]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Export Inspection (Service Charge) Amendment Act 2014.
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 |
| Provision(s) | 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. | 25 June 2014 |
| 2. Schedule 1 | At the same time as the Export Legislation Amendment Act 2014 commences. | 25 June 2014 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments
Export Inspection (Service Charge) Act 1985
1 Section 4
Repeal the section, substitute:
4 Definitions
In this Act:
charge means charge imposed by this Act.
exportable goods means goods that are:
(a) prescribed goods (within the meaning of the Export Control Act 1982); and
(b) prescribed in regulations made for the purposes of this definition.
2 Subsection 6(1)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(1) Charge is imposed on the provision of an export inspection service at an establishment that, at the time the service is provided, is registered for operations associated with the preparation of exportable goods.
3 Subsection 6(3)
Repeal the subsection, substitute:
(3) Charge is imposed on the provision of an external export inspection service relating to exportable goods.
4 Subsection 7(2)
Omit “prescribed commodity”, substitute “exportable goods”.
5 Application of amendments
The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to export inspection services provided on or after the first day of the first financial year starting on or after the commencement of this Schedule.
6 Transitional—initial regulations
(1) This item applies to the Export Inspection (Service Charge) Regulations 1985 (as in force immediately before the commencement of this item).
(2) The regulations (to the extent that they specify or refer to commodities) have effect, after the commencement of this item, as if:
(a) any of those commodities that is not a prescribed good (within the meaning of the Export Control Act 1982) were disregarded; and
(b) the remaining commodities were goods prescribed for the purposes of the definition of exportable goods in section 4 of the Export Inspection (Service Charge) Act 1985 as amended by this Act.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 27 March 2014
Senate on 16 June 2014]