Queensland Consolidated Regulations

TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (MARINE SAFETY) REGULATION 2016 - REG 201

201 Exemption or concession from registration fees

(1) No registration fee is payable for a recreational ship if the owner of the ship receives a totally and permanently incapacitated war pension.

(2) A recreational ship is exempt from 50% of the registration component of the registration fee for the ship if the owner of the ship—

(a) holds a pensioner concession card or a seniors card; or

(b) receives—

(i) a full-rate age pension; or

(ii) a disability support pension; or

(iii) an Australian/United Kingdom reciprocal pension; or

(iv) a service or general rate disability pension.

(3) If a person mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) has 2 or more recreational ships, subsection (1) or (2) applies for only 1 recreational ship owned by the person that is nominated by the person for this section.

(4) No registration fee is payable for a ship owned or operated by an accredited surf life saving club and used for rescue purposes.

(5) No registration fee is payable for a ship used exclusively by a school.

(6) In this section—

"pensioner concession card" means a card known as a pensioner concession card issued under a Commonwealth law.

"seniors card" means a Queensland Government seniors card.