Road Charges Legislation Repeal and Amendment Act 2008

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.

This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally passed by both Houses of the Parliament and assented to. It will not be expanded to deal with provisions inserted in this Act after assent.

Column 3 of the table contains additional information that is not part of this Act. Information in this column may be added to or edited in any published version of this Act.

The Minister must cause a review of the Heavy Vehicle Safety and Productivity Program to be conducted.

The review must:

start on the third anniversary of the commencement of this section; and

be completed within 6 months.

The Minister must cause a written report about the review to be prepared.

The Minister must cause a copy of the report to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days after the Minister receives the report.

The amount of road user charge for taxable fuel is worked out using the following rate:

if no rate has been determined by the *Transport Minister-21 cents for each litre of the fuel;

otherwise-the rate determined by the Transport Minister.

For the purposes of subsection (7), the *Transport Minister may determine, by legislative instrument, the rate of the road user charge.

Before the *Transport Minister determines an increased rate of road user charge, the Transport Minister must:

make the following publicly available for at least 60 days:

the proposed increased rate of road user charge;

any information that was relied on in determining the proposed increased rate; and

consider any comments received, within the period specified by the Transport Minister, from the public in relation to the proposed increased rate.

However, the *Transport Minister may, as a result of considering any comments received from the public in accordance with subsection (9), determine a rate of road user charge that is different from the proposed rate that was made publicly available without making that different rate publicly available in accordance with that subsection.

In determining the *road user charge, the *Transport Minister must not apply a method for indexing the charge.

The *Transport Minister must not make more than one determination in a financial year if the effect of the determination would be to increase the *road user charge more than once in that financial year.