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This Act may be cited as the Protection of the Sea (Imposition of Contributions to Oil Pollution Compensation Funds—General) Act 1993.
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This Act makes the contribution obligations provided for in the Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Funds) Act 1993 legally enforceable. Payers are those defined as contributors under the Funds Act; the contributions are imposed by this Act (s3–4). The imposition is limited so it does not create customs or excise duties (s4(2)) and it does not tax property of a State (s5). The Act commences with Chapter 1 of the Funds Act (s2).
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Direct links to the current provisions in Protection of the Sea (Imposition of Contributions to Oil Pollution Compensation Funds—General) Act 1993.
This Act may be cited as the Protection of the Sea (Imposition of Contributions to Oil Pollution Compensation Funds—General) Act 1993.
This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, as the case requires, on the commencement of Chapter 1 of the Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Funds) Act 1993.
Sections 4 and 5 of the Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Funds) Act 1993 apply in relation to this Act in a corresponding way to the way in which they apply in relation to that Act.
(1) Contributions payable under the Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Funds) Act 1993 are imposed. (2) This section imposes contributions only so far as those contributions are neither duties of customs nor duties of excise within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.
(1) This Act does not impose a tax on property of any kind belonging to a State. (2) In this section, property of any kind belonging to a State has the same meaning as in section 114 of the Constitution.
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This Act may be cited as the Protection of the Sea (Imposition of Contributions to Oil Pollution Compensation Funds—General) Act 1993.
This Act commences, or is taken to have commenced, as the case requires, on the commencement of Chapter 1 of the Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Funds) Act 1993.
Sections 4 and 5 of the Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Funds) Act 1993 apply in relation to this Act in a corresponding way to the way in which they apply in relation to that Act.
(1) Contributions payable under the Protection of the Sea (Oil Pollution Compensation Funds) Act 1993 are imposed. (2) This section imposes contributions only so far as those contributions are neither duties of customs nor duties of excise within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.
(1) This Act does not impose a tax on property of any kind belonging to a State. (2) In this section, property of any kind belonging to a State has the same meaning as in section 114 of the Constitution.