Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment (Registration Fees) Act 2013

No. 64, 2013

An Act to amend the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedule(s) 2

Schedule 1—Amendments 3

Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005 3

An Act to amend the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005, and for related purposes

[Assented to 26 June 2013]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment (Registration Fees) Act 2013.
2 Commencement 1

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.
Commencement information Commencement information Commencement information
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Provision(s) Commencement Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 26 June 2013
2. Schedule 1 At the same time as the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (Registration Fees) Act 2013 commences. 27 June 2013

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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.

 2

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.
3 Schedule(s)

Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Amendments

Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005

 1 Section 7 (definition of affected person)

Omit “and (3)”, substitute “, (3) and (4)”.

 2 Paragraph 26(2)(c)

After “the fees”, insert “(other than fees imposed by the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (Registration Fees) Act 2013)”.

 3 At the end of section 26 (after the note)

Add:

Registration fees

Note: The Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (Registration Fees) Act 2013 imposes fees for registration applications as taxes.

 8

The scheme formulated under subsection (1) may require or permit the Regulator to do any of the following:

 a

(a) refuse, or refuse to consider, a registration application within the meaning of the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (Registration Fees) Act 2013 if a fee imposed by that Act is not paid, or is not paid within a period specified in the scheme;

 b

(b) waive or refund, in whole or in part, a fee imposed by the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (Registration Fees) Act 2013.

 9

A provision of the scheme formulated under subsection (1) for the purposes of subsection (8) has effect despite anything else in this Act (other than Part 11) or a corresponding State-Territory law.

 4 At the end of section 65

Add:

; (f) amounts equal to amounts received by the Commonwealth as fees imposed by the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (Registration Fees) Act 2013.

 5 At the end of subsection 69(1)

Add:

; (c) a decision by the Regulator under the scheme formulated under subsection 26(1) to refuse a request (a waiver/refund request) to waive or refund, in whole or in part, a fee imposed by the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (Registration Fees) Act 2013.

 6 At the end of section 69

Add:

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 13 March 2013

Senate on 20 March 2013]

(45/13)

 4

(4) A person whose waiver/refund request is refused is the affected person for the purposes of a decision referred to in paragraph (1)(c).