Maritime Transport Act 1994

Financing plans and responses to protect the marine environment from marine oil spills - Oil pollution levies

339: Evidence of nature and change of use

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"Telling the Authority about changes to your ship or oil site's use"

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You own or are in charge of a ship or oil site that has to pay an oil pollution levy. If you change how you use the ship or site, you must tell the Authority in writing right away. This is because the change might mean you have to pay the levy at a different rate. You might get a notice from the Director if they think you have changed how you use your ship or oil site. The notice will ask you to send a statutory declaration to the Director within 14 days. This declaration must say how you are using the ship or site. The Director needs this information to make sure you are paying the correct amount of levy. You have to send the declaration to verify the nature of the use of your ship or site.

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Part 24Financing plans and responses to protect the marine environment from marine oil spills
Oil pollution levies

339Evidence of nature and change of use

Every person, being the owner or master of a contributing ship, or the owner of a contributing oil site, in respect of which an oil pollution levy is payable, shall, forthwith on the occurrence of any change in the use of the ship or site that would render the person liable to the payment of a levy at a different rate, notify the Authority in writing of that change.
Where the Director has reasonable cause to suspect that a change specified in subsection (1) has occurred in respect of a contributing ship, or contributing oil site, for which a levy is payable under this Part, the Director may, by notice in writing to the owner or master of the ship or the owner of the contributing oil site, require that person to deliver to the Director within 14 days after service of the notice a statutory declaration by that person verifying the nature of the use of the ship or site, as the case may be.

Compare

1974 No 14 s 29H
1977 No 130 s 3