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This Act may be cited as the Biosecurity Charges Imposition (Customs) Act 2015.
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Bill homepage (APH)This Act may be cited as the Biosecurity Charges Imposition (Customs) Act 2015.
Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
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Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provision(s) | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. Sections 1 and 2 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table | The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | 31 March 2014 |
2. Sections 3 to 12 | The later of: (a) the start of the day after this Act receives the Royal Assent; and (b) immediately after the commencement of section 3 of the Quarantine Charges (Collection) Act 2014. However, the provision(s) do not commence at all if the event mentioned in paragraph (b) does not occur. | 1 April 2014 (paragraph (b) applies) |
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
This Act binds the Crown in each of its capacities.
This Act extends to the Territory of Christmas Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
A regulation may extend this Act or any provisions of this Act to any other external Territory that is prescribed by the regulation.
This Act extends to acts, omissions, matters and things outside:
Australia and any external Territory to which a provision of this Act extends; and
the airspace over an area covered by paragraph (a); and
the coastal sea (as defined in subsection 15B(4) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901) of Australia and of any external Territory to which a provision of this Act extends.
Under section 4:
all provisions of this Act extend to the Territory of Christmas Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands; and
a regulation may extend any or all provisions of this Act to one or more other external Territories.
This Act does not impose a tax on property of any kind belonging to a State.
In this section:
property of any kind belonging to a State has the same meaning as in section 114 of the Constitution.
A regulation may prescribe a charge in relation to a prescribed matter connected with the administration of the Biosecurity Act 2015.
The charges prescribed under subsection (1) are imposed as taxes.
Two or more charges may be prescribed in relation to the same matter, and a single charge may be prescribed in relation to 2 or more matters.
This section imposes a charge only so far as that charge is a duty of customs within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.
A regulation may prescribe a charge under subsection 7(1):
by specifying an amount as the charge; or
by specifying a method for calculating the amount of the charge.
Before the Governor‑General makes a regulation under subsection 7(1) prescribing a charge in relation to a matter, the Minister must be satisfied that the amount of the charge is set at a level that is designed to recover no more than the Commonwealth’s likely costs in connection with the matter.
A regulation may provide for exemptions from a charge prescribed under subsection 7(1).
The Governor‑General may make regulations prescribing matters:
required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.