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DELIVERING VICTORIAN INFRASTRUCTURE (PORT OF MELBOURNE LEASE TRANSACTION) ACT 2016 (NO. 10 OF 2016) - SECT 94

Definitions

    (1)     In section 3(1) of the Port Management Act   1995

        (a)     for the definition of port licence fee substitute

"" port licence fee" means the fee payable by the port licence holder under Part 2B;";

        (b)     in the definition of" port of Melbourne land", in paragraph (a)(i), for "the Port of Melbourne Corporation" substitute "a public sector entity or the port of Melbourne operator".

    (2)     In section 3(1) of the Port Management Act   1995 insert the following definitions—

""anchorage" means a place in port waters where vessels may anchor;

"channel-dredging activities" means any of the following activities to enable use of a channel by vessels—

        (a)     altering, dredging, cleansing, scouring, straightening and improving a channel;

        (b)     reducing or removing any banks or shoals within a channel;

        (c)     abating and removing any impediments, obstructions and nuisances in a channel that are injurious to the seabed or that obstruct or tend to obstruct navigation;

        (d)     placing or disposing of excavated or dredged material resulting from the carrying out of an activity referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c);

        (e)     undertaking any works necessary to place or dispose of excavated or dredged material resulting from the carrying out of an activity referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c);

"leased port of Melbourne land" means port of Melbourne land in respect of which the port of Melbourne operator holds a leasehold interest;

"port licence" means a licence granted under Division 5 of Part 3;

"port licence holder" means the holder of a port licence;

"port of Melbourne operator" means a person declared under section 4A to be the port of Melbourne operator;

"provision of channels" includes carrying out channel-dredging activities;

"public entity" has the same meaning as in the Public Administration Act 2004 ;

"public sector entity" has the same meaning as in the Delivering Victorian Infrastructure (Port of Melbourne Lease Transaction) Act 2016 ;".



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