Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Act 2017
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Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Act 2017
No. 106, 2017
An Act to impose charges on the manufacture of emissions‑controlled products, and for related purposes
Contents
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Act binds the Crown
4 Definitions
5 Imposition of charge
6 Amount of charge
7 Liability for charge
8 Regulations
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Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Act 2017
No. 106, 2017
An Act to impose charges on the manufacture of emissions‑controlled products, and for related purposes
[Assented to 14 September 2017]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act is the Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Act 2017.
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
- Provisions Commencement Date/Details
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- The whole of this Act At the same time as the Product Emissions Standards Act 2017 commences.However, the provisions do not commence at all if that Act does not commence. 15 September 2017
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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 Act binds the Crown
This Act binds the Crown in each of its capacities.
4 Definitions
In this Act:
amount includes a nil amount.
emissions‑controlled product has the same meaning as in the Product Emissions Standards Act 2017.
manufacture, for a product prescribed for the purposes of the definition of product in the Product Emissions Standards Act 2017, means produce by any method.
5 Imposition of charge
Charge is imposed on the manufacture of emissions‑controlled products.
6 Amount of charge
The amount of the charge imposed on the manufacture of an emissions‑controlled product is the amount:
(a) prescribed by the regulations; or
(b) worked out in accordance with a method prescribed by the regulations.
7 Liability for charge
Charge imposed on the manufacture of an emissions‑controlled product is payable by the person who manufactures the product.
8 Regulations
The Governor‑General may make regulations prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 10 August 2017
Senate on 7 September 2017]
(155/17)