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Maritime Transport Act 1994

General provisions relating to shipping - Maritime levies

193: Power to appoint agents to collect maritime levies

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"The Director can appoint someone to help collect maritime levies."

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The Director can choose someone to help collect maritime levies. You might see the chief executive of the New Zealand Customs Service get chosen for this job. The Director can also pick someone else to be their agent. The Director can make a deal with their agent about how they get paid. You can get paid a fee for collecting the levies. The agent can also keep some of the levies as a fee. The agent can collect all maritime levies or just some of them. The Director decides what the agent can collect. The Director makes the rules for the agent to follow.

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Part 14General provisions relating to shipping
Maritime levies

193Power to appoint agents to collect maritime levies

  1. The Director may appoint the chief executive of the New Zealand Customs Service or the holder for the time being of any office (whether or not within the public service) or any other person to be the agent of the Director for the purpose of collecting maritime levies or any class of maritime levies.

  2. Any appointment under subsection (1) may—

  3. provide for the payment of a fee by the Director for the collection of maritime levies; or
    1. permit the agent to retain a specified proportion of the maritime levies as a collection fee; or
      1. both.

        Compare
        • 1952 No 49 s 377
        • 1990 No 121 s 2
        Notes
        • Section 193 heading: amended, on , by section 36(1) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
        • Section 193(1): amended, on , by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).
        • Section 193(1): amended, on , by section 36(3) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
        • Section 193(1): amended, on , by section 36(4) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
        • Section 193(1): amended, on , by section 289(1) of the Customs and Excise Act 1996 (1996 No 27).
        • Section 193(2)(a): amended, on , by section 36(3) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
        • Section 193(2)(a): amended, on , by section 36(4) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
        • Section 193(2)(b): amended, on , by section 36(3) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
        • Section 193(2)(b): amended, on , by section 36(4) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).