AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Ambulance Service Levy (Amendment) Act 1999
No. 37 of 1999
	
An Act to amend the Ambulance Service Levy Act 1990 and for related purposes
[Notified in ACT Gazette S44: 12 July 1999]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
1. 	Short title 
	This Act may be cited as the Ambulance Service Levy (Amendment) Act  1999.
2. 	Commencement
	This Act is taken to have commenced on 1 July 1999.
3. 	Principal Act
	In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Ambulance Service Levy Act 1990.1
4. 	Calculation of ambulance levy
	Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—
	(a)	by omitting subsections (4) and (5);
	(b)	by omitting from paragraph (a) of the definition of “relevant amount” in subsection (6) “fixes under subsection (4)” and substituting “determines under section 139 of the Taxation Administration Act 1999 for the purposes of this section”; and
	(c)	by omitting from paragraph (b) of the definition of “relevant amount” in subsection (6) “fixed—49” and substituting “determined—83”.
5. 	Returns
	Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting subsection (2) and substituting the following subsection:
“(2)	A return shall be in writing in a form approved by the commissioner and shall specify, in relation to the reference month to which the return relates—
	(a)	the number of contributors who are contributors only in respect of themselves;
	(b)	the number of other contributors; and
	(c)	the number of days in the reference month.”.
6. 	Consequential amendments of the Tax Administration Act
	Section 139 of the Taxation Administration Act 1999 is amended—
	(a)	by adding at the end of subsection (1) the following paragraph:
	“(h)	an amount for the purposes of section 8 of the Ambulance Service Levy Act 1990.”; and
	(b)	by omitting subsection (3).

NOTES
Principal Act
1.	Reprinted as at 1 March 1999.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 6 May 1999]

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