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Biosecurity Act 1993

Administrative provisions - Recovery of costs

140AB: Contents of border processing levy order

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"What's included in the rules about paying a border processing fee"

When a levy order is made under section 140AA, it can do several things. It can set different rates of levy for different people or groups of people. You might pay a different rate of levy than someone else, depending on who you are or what group you belong to.

It can also set a maximum rate of levy, so you know the most you will have to pay. The order can say some people do not have to pay the levy at all.

The order will say who is responsible for collecting the levy from you, and how they can recover their costs. You will have to report how much levy you have paid, so the Director-General can check it.

The order can give you more time to pay the levy, but you might have to pay more if you pay late. If you pay the levy and it turns out you did not have to, you might get a refund. The levy money has to be kept separate from other money, in a special account.

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Part 6Administrative provisions
Recovery of costs

140ABContents of border processing levy order

  1. A levy order under section 140AA may—

  2. prescribe different rates of levy, on any differential basis, for different persons or different classes of persons:
    1. prescribe a maximum rate or maximum rates of levy:
      1. exempt certain persons or classes of persons from the requirement to pay the levy:
        1. prescribe persons responsible for collecting the levy from those primarily responsible for paying it:
          1. allow persons collecting the levy to recover the costs of collecting the levy and, if so, prescribe the basis on which those costs are to be calculated or ascertained:
            1. require that returns be made to the Director-General or some other person or body to enable amounts of levy payable to be calculated, determined, or verified:
              1. provide, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, for extensions of time for the payment of levy:
                1. provide for the payment of additional or increased levy in the event of late payment or non-payment:
                  1. provide for circumstances in which levy paid may be refunded:
                    1. require that levy funds payable be held on trust in separate accounts.

                      Notes
                      • Section 140AB: inserted, on , by section 5 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act (No 2) 2015 (2015 No 56).