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Sentencing Act 2002

Sentences, orders, and related matters - Offender levy and victims' services bank account

105E: Payment of levy

You could also call this:

"Offenders must pay a fee to help victims of crime"

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If you are an offender, you must pay a levy to the Secretary. The Secretary will then put the levy into an account. You can find more information about this rule in the Sentencing (Offender Levy) Amendment Act 2009.

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Part 2Sentences, orders, and related matters
Offender levy and victims' services bank account

105EPayment of levy

  1. An offender must pay the levy to the Secretary, who must pay the levy into the account.

Notes
  • Section 105E: inserted, on , by section 7 of the Sentencing (Offender Levy) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 42).