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Motor Vehicle Sales Act 2003

Miscellaneous provisions - Levy regulations

143: Regulations may impose levy

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"Motor vehicle traders may have to pay a yearly fee to help cover dispute costs"

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You must pay a levy if you are a motor vehicle trader. The levy is for the costs of running the Disputes Tribunals. You pay the levy every 12 months while you are registered under the Motor Vehicle Sales Act. The Governor-General can make regulations about the levy. These regulations can say how much you pay and how it is calculated. They can also say how the levy is paid and collected. You can find out more about secondary legislation, like these regulations, in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. The regulations can exempt some motor vehicle traders from paying the levy. They can also provide for waivers or refunds of the levy.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Levy regulations

143Regulations may impose levy

  1. Every motor vehicle trader, or class of motor vehicle traders, specified in regulations made under subsection (2) must pay to the Minister, for each period of 12 months during which the motor vehicle trader is registered under this Act, a levy of an amount stated in, or calculated or set or reset in accordance with, those regulations for, or in connection with, the costs of the operation and administration of the Disputes Tribunals.

  2. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations—

  3. prescribing different levies for different classes of motor vehicle traders:
    1. specifying the amount of the levy:
      1. providing for the method by which the levy will be calculated:
        1. specifying the criteria and other requirements by and against which the levy will be set or reset:
          1. providing for the payment and collection of the levy:
            1. exempting any motor vehicle trader or class of motor vehicle traders from paying the levy:
              1. providing for waivers or refunds of the whole or any part of the levy:
                1. providing for any other matters necessary or desirable to set, calculate, administer, collect, and enforce the levy.

                  1. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

                  Notes
                  • Section 143(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).