Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Act 1981

The GovernorGeneral 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.

Notes to the Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Act 1981

Note 1

The Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Act 1981 as shown in this compilation comprises Act No. 86, 1981 amended as indicated in the Tables below.

For application, saving or transitional provisions made by the Corporations (Repeals, Consequentials and Transitionals) Act 2001, see Act No. 55, 2001.

Table of Acts

Act Number and year Date of Assent Date of commencement Application, saving or transitional provisions

Minerals (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Act 1981 86, 1981 18 June 1981 1 Feb 1990 (see Gazette 1989, No. S387)

Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act (No. 1) 1982 26, 1982 7 May 1982 Part XXVII (ss. 162, 163): 1 Feb 1990 (see s. 2(6) and Gazette 1989, No. S387) (a) -

Offshore Minerals (Consequential Provisions) Act 1994 29, 1994 25 Feb 1994 (b) -

Corporations (Repeals, Consequentials and Transitionals) Act 2001 55, 2001 28 June 2001 Ss. 4-14 and Schedule 3 (item 400): 15 July 2001 (see Gazette 2001, No. S285) (c) Ss. 414

The Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Act 1981 was amended by Part XXVII (sections 162 and 163) only of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act (No. 1) 1982, subsection 2(6) of which provides as follows:

Part XXVII shall come into operation on the day on which the Companies Act 1981 comes into operation or the day on which the Minerals (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Act 1981 comes into operation, whichever is later.

The Minerals (Submerged Lands) (Registration Fees) Act 1981 came into operation on 1 February 1990.

The Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Act 1981 was amended by the Offshore Minerals (Consequential Provisions) Act 1994, section 2 of which provides as follows:

2. This Act commences immediately after the Offshore Minerals Act 1994 commences.

The Offshore Minerals Act 1994 came into operation on 25 February 1994.

The Offshore Minerals (Registration Fees) Act 1981 was amended by Schedule 3 (item 400) only of the Corporations (Repeals, Consequentials and Transitionals) Act 2001, subsection 2(3) of which provides as follows:

Subject to subsections (4) to (10), Schedule 3 commences, or is taken to have commenced, at the same time as the Corporations Act 2001.

Table of Amendments ad. = added or inserted am. = amended rep. = repealed rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision affected How affected

Title am. No. 29, 1994

S. 1 am. No. 29, 1994

S. 3 am. No. 29, 1994

S. 4 am. No. 26, 1982; No. 29, 1994; No. 55, 2001

S. 5 ad. No. 29, 1994