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2013-2014
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Quarantine Charges (Imposition--
Excise) Amendment Bill 2014
No. , 2014
(Agriculture)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Quarantine Charges
(Imposition--Excise) Act 2014
No. , 2014
Quarantine Charges (Imposition--Excise) Amendment Bill 2014
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Quarantine Charges (Imposition--Excise) Act 2014
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No. , 2014
Quarantine Charges (Imposition--Excise) Amendment Bill 2014
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Quarantine Charges
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(Imposition--Excise) Act 2014
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Quarantine Charges (Imposition--
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Excise) Amendment Act 2014.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Quarantine Charges (Imposition--Excise) Amendment Bill 2014
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3
and anything in
this Act not
elsewhere covered
by this table
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedule 1
At the same time as section 3 of the
Biosecurity Act 2014 commences.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1
--Amendments
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Quarantine Charges (Imposition--Excise) Act 2014
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1 Title
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Omit "Quarantine Act 1908", substitute "Biosecurity Act 2014".
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2 Section 1
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Omit "Quarantine Charges (Imposition--Excise) Act 2014", substitute
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"Biosecurity Charges Imposition (Excise) Act 2014".
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Note:
This item amends the short title of the Act. If another amendment of the Act is
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described by reference to the Act's previous short title, that other amendment has effect
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after the commencement of this item as an amendment of the Act under its amended
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short title (see section 10 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901).
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3 Section 6
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Repeal the section, substitute:
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6 Imposition of charges
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(1) A regulation may prescribe a charge in relation to a prescribed
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matter connected with the administration of the Biosecurity Act
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2014.
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(2) The charges prescribed under subsection (1) are imposed as taxes.
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(3) Two or more charges may be prescribed in relation to the same
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matter, and a single charge may be prescribed in relation to 2 or
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more matters.
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(4) This section imposes a charge only so far as that charge is a duty of
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excise within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.
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4 Section 8
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Repeal the section.
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5 Part 3
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Repeal the Part.
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