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STEVEDORING INDUSTRY LEVY COLLECTION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1991 NO. 14

STATUTORY RULES 1991 No. 14

Stevedoring Industry Levy Collection Regulations (Amendment)

(Amendment of regulations 5 and 8)

(Issued under the Authority of the Minister for Industrial Relations)

Section 11 of the Stevedoring Industry Levy Collection Act 1977 (the Levy Collection Act) authorises the Governor-General to make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Regulation 5 of the Stevedoring Industry Levy Collection Regulations requires ships' agents to furnish information relating to the amount of cargo loaded or unloaded to employers of waterside workers.

To clarify the identity of persons responsible for providing this information, regulation 2 of the proposed Regulations substitutes a new regulation 5. The new regulation 5 makes it clear that:

•       any and all persons who are directly responsible to the owners or charterers of a ship for the loading or unloading of all or part of that ship's cargo must furnish a return In the prescribed form; and,

•       if there is no such person in Australia or if there is part of the cargo for which there is no agent, then the master of the ship must provide the return of information.

Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations provides for the manner in which payments of levy are to be made to the Commonwealth.

Due to changes in the name and address of the office to which those payments are to be made, regulation 3 of the proposed Regulations sets out the current office and address of the Department to which payments must be made under the Levy Collection Act.