2. This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. Section 86E of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (2):

"(2AA) The Minister may remit the whole or a part of a fee payable by a person in respect of a quarantine service if he or she is satisfied that it is 5 appropriate to do so having regard to:

(a) the total amount of fees collected in the financial year that immediately precedes the financial year in which the quarantine service is provided; and

(b) the total cost of providing quarantine services in the financial year 1(that immediately precedes the financial year in which the quarantine service is provided; and

(c) the total amount of fees that the Minister estimates will be collected in the financial year in which the quarantine service is provided; and

(d) the amount that the Minister estimates will be the total cost of providing quarantine services in the year referred to in paragraph (c); and

(e) the total amount of fees that the Minister estimates will be paid by the person in the year referred to in paragraph (c).".

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NOTE

Quarantine Act 1908

1. No. 3, 1908, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 15, 1912; No. 42, 1915; No. 47, 1920; No. 30, 1924; Nos. 19 and 92, 1947; No. 80, 1950; No. 61, 1961; No. 12, 1966; No. 1, 1969; No. 216, 1973 (as amended by No. 20, 1974); Nos. 1, 105 and 155, 1979; No. 70, 1980; No. 54, 1981; No. 51, 1982; No. 84, 1983; No. 19, 1984 (as amended by No. 165, 1984); No. 22, 1984; No. 2, 1985; No. 104, 1987 (as amended by No. 155, 1988); No. 141, 1987: No. 99, 1988: No. 37, 1990: No. 134, 1991; No. 104, 1992; and Nos. 20 and 94, 1994.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—

Senate on 12 October 1994

House of Representatives on 17 November 1994]