Part 6Administrative provisions
Recovery of costs
137Levies
The Governor-General may from time to time, on the recommendation of the responsible Minister, by Order in Council impose a levy payable to the Director-General for the purposes of wholly or partially funding a service provided or function performed by the department for the purposes of this Act.
An order under this section—
- is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements); and
- must be confirmed by an Act (see subpart 3 of Part 5 of the Legislation Act 2019).
The fact that Part 5A provides for levies to be made to fund readiness or response activities does not prevent this section imposing a levy to which both the following apply:
- it is imposed to wholly or partly fund a readiness or response activity; and
- it is imposed on a sector that is not specified in a Gazette notice under section 100ZA.
Compare
- 1967 No 50 s 107
Notes
- Section 137(1): amended, on , by section 25 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 38).
- Section 137(2): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
- Section 137(3): inserted, on , by section 57 of the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012 (2012 No 73).