{"id":"F2018L01243","name":"Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Regulations 2018","slug":"offshore-minerals-registration-fees-regulations-2018","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":439758,"registerId":"F2018L01243-fast-fetch-1775955656656","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Regulations 2018","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nOffshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Regulations 2018\n\nI, 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.\n\nDated 30 August 2018\n\nPeter Cosgrove\n\nGovernor‑General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command\n\nMatt Canavan\n\nMinister for Resources and Northern Australia\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\n4 Schedules\n\n5 Definitions\n\n6 Registration fees\n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\nOffshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Regulations\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Regulations 2018.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (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.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered. 1 September 2018\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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.\n\n (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.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under the Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Act 1981.\n\n4  Schedules\n\n  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.\n\n5  Definitions\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Act 1981.\n\n6  Registration fees\n\nPrescribed percentage of value\n\n (1) For the purposes of subsection 4(1) of the Act, 1.5% is prescribed.\n\nMinimum amount of fee\n\n (2) For the purposes of subsection 4(2) of the Act, $600 is prescribed.\n\nAmounts of fees for particular documents\n\n (3) For the purposes of a provision of the Act specified in column 1 of an item of the following table, the amount specified in column 2 of the item is prescribed.\n\n \n\n- Amounts of fees for particular documents\n- Item Column 1Provision of the Act Column 2Amount ($)\n- 1 subsection 4(4) 3,000\n- 2 subsection 4(5) 3,000\n\n\n \n\nSchedule 1—Repeals\n\n \n\nOffshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Regulations\n\n1  The whole of the instrument\n\nRepeal the instrument.\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not expand or narrow the statutory powers; it exercises the Act’s fee-setting authority by prescribing specific fee levels (regulation 6) and repeals the prior regulations (Schedule 1). It changes operational settings (the fee amounts) rather than the legal scope of who is regulated or the decision-making powers in the parent Act; determining whether amounts differ from the prior regime requires comparison with the repealed instrument."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument (6 substantive clauses plus a repeal schedule).","Prescribes numeric rates and amounts only (regulation 6(1)–(3)).","Relies on cross-reference to the Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Act 1981—meaning key terms (for example, how 'value' is defined and what documents attract the $3,000 fees) require consulting subsection 4 of the Act.","No delegated discretion, formulas, or procedural rules in the instrument itself—low interpretive complexity apart from Act cross-references.","Includes a full repeal of the prior Regulations (Schedule 1), so administrative transition issues may arise but are not detailed here."],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation sets the registration fees under the Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Act 1981: a 1.5% value-based fee, a $600 minimum, and two fixed fees of $3,000, and it repeals the earlier registration-fees regulations. The people who pay are applicants and holders of offshore-minerals registrations; the administering agency collects the fees and must apply the Act’s definitions and subsection 4 when calculating amounts."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation maintains its original narrow purpose of setting registration fees for offshore minerals documents. The 2018 version simply updates the fee amounts and repeals the 1994 regulations without expanding into new areas."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short — only 6 operative sections plus a repeal schedule","Only 1 defined term ('Act') in the interpretation section","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the parent Act","Simple mathematical formula (1.5% + minimum threshold) with no exceptions or conditions","Straightforward table-based fee structure with only 2 items","No nested definitions, conditional logic, or temporal provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation sets the price for registering offshore minerals documents: a 1.5% fee of the transaction or interest value with a $600 minimum, plus two specific document types charged a flat $3,000. It applies to companies and individuals dealing in offshore mineral rights under Commonwealth jurisdiction. The fees fund register administration and replace the previous 1994 rules, updating how registration costs are recovered."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/offshore-minerals-registration-fees-regulations-2018","history":"/api/acts/offshore-minerals-registration-fees-regulations-2018/history","analysis":"/api/acts/offshore-minerals-registration-fees-regulations-2018/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/offshore-minerals-registration-fees-regulations-2018/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/offshore-minerals-registration-fees-regulations-2018/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/offshore-minerals-registration-fees-regulations-2018/documents"}}