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INTERSTATE ROAD TRANSPORT CHARGE AMENDMENT BILL 2002

2002

The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES




Presented and read a first time









Interstate Road Transport Charge Amendment Bill 2002

No. , 2002

(Transport and Regional Services)



A Bill for an Act to amend the Interstate Road Transport Charge Act 1985

Contents

A Bill for an Act to amend the Interstate Road Transport Charge Act 1985

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Interstate Road Transport Charge Amendment Act 2002.

2 Commencement

This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendment of the Interstate Road Transport Charge Act 1985

1 Section 6

Repeal the section, substitute:

5A Automatic increase of amounts of charge

(1) This section applies to the charges determined in accordance with the Schedule (including charges whose amounts have already been changed by a previous application or applications of this section or of regulations made for the purposes of section 6).

(2) At the start of 1 July of each year, beginning with 1 July 2002, the amount of each of those charges is increased, from the amount that applied immediately before that 1 July, by the same percentage amount as is determined for the purposes of section 3A of the Road Transport Charges (Australian Capital Territory) Act 1993.

Note: In some circumstances, this rule can result in no increases occurring on a particular 1 July: see Part 4 of the Schedule to the Road Transport Charges (Australian Capital Territory) Act 1993.

(3) As soon as practicable, the Secretary must publish in the Gazette a statement setting out the new amounts of charge that apply under this section.

6 Regulations may decrease amounts of charge

(1) The regulations may decrease the amounts of charge that apply under sections 5 and 5A in relation to a year.

(2) Such regulations must not decrease any amount of charge by more than 5% of the amount of charge that would apply in relation to the year if no regulations were made for the purposes of this section in relation to that year.

2 The Schedule (note appearing after the Schedule heading)

After “Sections 5”, insert “, 5A”.

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