Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BOUNTY AND SUBSIDY LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1986 No. 37 of 1986 - SECT 22

22. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended-
(a) by omitting paragraph (e) of the definition of "bountiable vessel" in
sub-section (1) and substituting the following paragraph:

"(e) a prescribed air-cushion vehicle; and";

   (b)  by inserting "(other than a prescribed air-cushion vehicle)" after

"vessel" (first occurring) in paragraph (f) of that definition;
(c) by inserting after the definition of "premises" in sub-section (1) the
following definition:

" 'prescribed air-cushion vehicle' means an air-cushion vehicle, or other
similar craft, that-

   (a)  is designed to be used wholly or principally on or over land or
        wetlands;

   (b)  not being a fishing vessel, is of a kind that, because of section  13
        of the Shipping Registration Act 1981, is not required to be
        registered under section 12 of that Act; or

   (c)  if it were imported into Australia, would not be a vessel to which
        item 89.01 in Schedule 3 to the Tariff Act would apply;";

   (d)  by adding at the end of sub-section (1) the following definition:

" 'Tariff Act' means the Customs Tariff Act 1982.";

   (e)  by omitting from paragraph (2) (c) "and funnel and mast spaces" and
        substituting ", funnel spaces, mast spaces and, in the case of an
        air-cushion vehicle, the area enclosed by the inflatable skirt under
        normal inflation;"; and

   (f)  by adding at the end the following sub-section:

"(4) Where the Tariff Act is proposed to be altered by a Customs Tariff
alteration proposed in the Parliament in such a way that Schedule 3 to that
Act would be amended, or would be deemed to have been amended, on a particular
day, that Act shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been so
amended on that day.".