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Superyacht Charter (Budget Amendment) Act 2022

REPUBLIC OF FIJI

Superyacht Charter (Budget Amendment) Act 2022

ACT NO. 34 of 2022

I assent.

K. KUMAR

Chief Justice

[29 July 2022]

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE SUPERYACHT CHARTER ACT 2010

ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji—

Short title and commencement

1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Superyacht Charter (Budget Amendment) Act 2022.

(2) This Act comes into force on 1 August 2022.

(3) In this Act, the Superyacht Charter Act 2010 is referred to as the “Principal Act”.

Section 2 amended

2. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) after the definition of “$USD”, inserting the following new definition—

• ““approved form” has the meaning given in section 2 of the Customs Act 1986;”;

(b) in the definition of “Code of Conduct”, deleting “FIHTA subcommittee” and substituting “body responsible for the overseeing of hotel and tourism”;
(c) in the definition of “Environment and Climate Adaptation Levy”, deleting “Schedule” and substituting “approved form”;
(d) deleting the definition of “FIHTA subcommittee”;
(e) deleting the definition of “Minister” and substituting the following—

• ““Minister” means the Minister responsible for finance;”; and

(f) in the definition of “superyacht”, deleting “24 metres” and substituting “18 metres”.

Section 3A inserted

3. The Principal Act is amended after section 3 by inserting the following new section—

“Acts to be read as one
3A. This Act shall be read as one with the Customs Act 1986.”.

Section 4 amended

4. Section 4(1) of the Principal Act is amended by deleting “FIHTA subcommittee” and substituting “body responsible for the overseeing of hotel and tourism”.

Section 7 amended

5. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) in subsection (2)(c), deleting “$USD55,000” and substituting “$USD30,000”; and
(b) in subsection (3), deleting “prescribed” and substituting “approved”.

Section 8 amended

6. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) in subsection (2), deleting “prescribed” and substituting “approved”; and
(b) in subsection (3)(c), deleting “Schedule” and substituting “approved form”.

Section 14 amended

7. Section 14 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting “Schedule” and substituting “approved form”.

Section 20 amended

8. Section 20(a) of the Principal Act is amended by deleting “$USD55,000” and substituting “$USD30,000”.

Schedule deleted

9. The Principal Act is amended by deleting the Schedule.

Consequential amendment

10. The Prescribed Registration and Permit Forms Order 2010 is revoked.

Passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji this 29th day of July 2022.