Part 3BConcessions
17ZHPowers of Minister where services are provided by the Minister or the Director-General
Where any community service, benefit, or facility has been provided by the Minister or the Director-General, whether within or outside a conservation area, for the benefit of concessionaires either occupying any part of the conservation area or undertaking any activity within the area under any concession document—
- the Minister may, in accordance with this section and the relevant concession document, assess the amount of contribution to be paid to the Minister by the concessionaires towards the cost of providing and maintaining that service, benefit, or facility:
- the contribution assessed under paragraph (a) in respect of the capital cost of providing any such service, benefit, or facility shall be apportioned by the Minister among those concessionaires in such manner as he or she thinks fit and shall be paid in 1 amount or over a period of years as the Minister may determine, and the Minister may in like manner apportion among those concessionaires an annual contribution to be paid by them to the Minister to meet the cost of maintaining any such service, benefit, or facility:
- the amount apportioned by the Minister to be paid by any concessionaire shall be due and payable to and recoverable by the Minister on the expiration of 3 months after the service of a demand made on the concessionaire by the Minister or the Director-General:
- if the amount so apportioned is not paid by the due date, interest shall be payable by the concessionaire from the due date until payment in full at such rate as is from time to time fixed by the Minister:
- where any amount so apportioned is not paid in full by the due date, the concessionaire shall be deemed to have committed a breach of his or her or its concession:
- the Minister may exempt any concessionaire from payment of the whole or any part of any amount apportioned by the Minister or the Director-General under the foregoing provisions of this section, or may grant such relief to the concessionaire as he or she considers appropriate in the circumstances.
Compare
- 1980 No 66 s 53
Notes
- Section 17ZH: inserted, on , by section 7(1) of the Conservation Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 1).