Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (Inter-State Voyages) Act 2016

No. 2, 2016

An Act to amend the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title 2

2 Commencement 2

3 Schedules 2

Schedule 1—Amendments relating to inter-State voyages 3

Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003 3

An Act to amend the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003, and for related purposes

[Assented to 10 February 2016]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Amendment (Inter-State Voyages) Act 2016.
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
Provisions 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. 10 February 2016
2. Schedule 1 A single day to be fixed by Proclamation. However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period. 10 August 2016

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 relating to inter-State voyages

Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003

 1 Section 10 (definition of inter-State voyage)

Repeal the definition.

 2 Paragraphs 16(1)(a), (b) and (c)

Omit “or inter-State”.

 3 At the end of subsection 16(1)

Add:

Note: Regulations under this Act may make different provision with respect to different kinds of regulated Australian ships: see subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 12 August 2015

Senate on 25 November 2015]

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