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This Act may be cited as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Environmental Management Charge—General) Act 1993.
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The Act makes payable the “environmental management charge” set out in section 39B of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975, taking effect when Part VA of that Act commences. It imports the procedural application of sections 4 and 5 of the 1975 Act and expressly excludes the charge to the extent it would be a customs or excise duty.
It therefore imposes a statutory payment obligation on the persons liable under s39B, shifting direct costs to those payers while administration and enforcement follow the 1975 Act’s rules.
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Direct links to the current provisions in Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Environmental Management Charge—General) Act 1993.
This Act may be cited as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Environmental Management Charge—General) 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 neither a duty of customs nor 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—General) 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 neither a duty of customs nor a duty of excise within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.