Compilation #14 | Effective 2024-07-01
FRBR Work URI: /akn/au/act/1978/118
This Act may be cited as the Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978.
This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by Proclamation.
In this Act:
Collection Act means the Passenger Movement Charge Collection Act 1978.
external Territory has the same meaning as in the Collection Act.
means:
the ; or
the (Keeling) .
installation in the Greater Sunrise special regime area means a resources installation, or a sea installation, that is attached to the seabed in the Greater Sunrise special regime area (within the meaning of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973).
resources installation has the same meaning as in subsection 4(1) of the Customs Act 1901.
sea installation has the same meaning as in subsection 4(1) of the Customs Act 1901.
For the purposes of this Act, if:
a person departs from for an external Territory; and
the person is not ordinarily resident in that external Territory; and
the person intends, at the time of the departure, to depart from that external Territory for another country, or for an installation in the Greater Sunrise special regime area, within 3 months after the departure from ;
the first-mentioned departure is taken to be a departure of the person from for that other country or for that installation, as the case requires.
For the purposes of this Act (including subsection (1)), if:
a person departs from for another country or for an installation in the Greater Sunrise special regime area; and
the person intends, at the time of the departure, to depart from that other country, or from an installation in the Greater Sunrise special regime area, for an external Territory within 7 days after the departure from ;
the first-mentioned departure is taken to be a departure from for that external Territory.
For the purposes of this Act, if:
a person departs from Norfolk Island or an for another country or for an installation in the Greater Sunrise special regime area; and
the person intends, at the time of the departure, to depart from that other country, or from an installation in the Greater Sunrise special regime area, for a place in other than that first-mentioned Territory within 7 days after the first-mentioned departure;
the first-mentioned departure is taken not to be a departure from for another country or for an installation in the Greater Sunrise special regime area.
For the purposes of this Act, if:
a person departs from a part of Australia other than Norfolk Island or an Indian Ocean Territory for another country or for an installation in the Greater Sunrise special regime area; and
the person intends, at the time of the departure, to depart from that other country, or from an installation in the Greater Sunrise special regime area, for Norfolk Island or an within 7 days after the first-mentioned departure;
the first-mentioned departure is taken not to be a departure from for another country or for an installation in the Greater Sunrise special regime area.
Charge, called passenger movement charge, is imposed in respect of the departure of a person from :
for another country, after the commencement of this Act; or
(b) for an installation in the Greater Sunrise special regime area, after the commencement of the Passenger Movement Charge Amendment (Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty) Act 2019;
whether or not the person intends to return to .
The rate of charge imposed by this Act in respect of the departure of a person from is $70.
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