Biosecurity Act 1993

Government/industry agreement for readiness or response

100ZC: Effect of order

You could also call this:

"What happens when you get an order to pay a levy to help with biosecurity."

If you have to pay a levy because of a readiness or response levy order, you need to know who to pay it to. You can pay the levy to the Director-General or to an industry organisation. If you pay the levy to the industry organisation, it helps them meet their commitments under an agreement. You are responsible for paying the levy if it is owed. The person you pay the levy to can take you to court to get the money if you do not pay. Nothing in a readiness or response levy order stops information from being shared with the Government Statistician to help with official statistics or research under the Data and Statistics Act 2022.

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Part 5AGovernment/industry agreement for readiness or response

100ZCEffect of order

  1. This section applies to a levy imposed by a readiness or response levy order.

  2. The levy may be payable to—

  3. the Director-General; or
    1. the industry organisation.
      1. If the levy is payable to the industry organisation, it is payable to enable the organisation to meet its commitments under the agreement.

      2. A person responsible for paying the levy must pay it.

      3. The payee may recover a levy from a person responsible for paying it as a debt due in a court of competent jurisdiction.

      4. Nothing in a readiness or response levy order limits or prevents the provision of information to the Government Statistician for the production of official statistics or research under the Data and Statistics Act 2022.

      Notes
      • Section 100ZC: inserted, on , by section 39 of the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012 (2012 No 73).
      • Section 100ZC(6): inserted, on , by section 107(1) of the Data and Statistics Act 2022 (2022 No 39).