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This Act may be cited as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Environmental Management Charge—Excise) Act 1993.
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This Act imports the environmental management charge in section 39B of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 and creates a legal obligation to pay it, but only to the extent the charge qualifies as an excise under section 55 of the Constitution. It commences with Part VA of the GBRMPA and applies that Act’s sections 4 and 5 for administration, so liability, timing and compliance depend on those external provisions.
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Direct links to the current provisions in Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Environmental Management Charge—Excise) Act 1993.
This Act may be cited as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Environmental Management Charge—Excise) Act 1993.
This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, as the case requires, on the commencement of Part VA of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975.
Sections 4 and 5 of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 apply in relation to this Act in a corresponding way to the way in which they apply in relation to that Act.
(1) Charge payable in accordance with section 39B of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 is imposed. (2) This section imposes charge only so far as that charge is a duty of excise within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.
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This Act may be cited as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Environmental Management Charge—Excise) Act 1993.
This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, as the case requires, on the commencement of Part VA of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975.
Sections 4 and 5 of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 apply in relation to this Act in a corresponding way to the way in which they apply in relation to that Act.
(1) Charge payable in accordance with section 39B of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 is imposed. (2) This section imposes charge only so far as that charge is a duty of excise within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.