Maritime Transport Act 1994

General provisions relating to shipping - Maritime levies

193: Power to appoint agents to collect maritime levies

You could also call this:

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

The Director can choose someone to help collect maritime levies. You might see the chief executive of the New Zealand Customs Service get 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. They can pay their agent a fee to collect the levies. Their agent can also keep some of the levies they collect as a fee. The Director can choose to do one of these options or both.

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192: Exemptions from maritime levies, or

"Some ships don't have to pay maritime levies, depending on the type of ship or what it's used for."

194: Power of agent of ship, etc, to retain maritime levies out of other money, or

"Agents can keep levy money from ship payments to cover their costs"

Part 14General provisions relating to shipping
Maritime levies

193Power to appoint agents to collect maritime levies

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.
Any appointment under subsection (1) may—
provide for the payment of a fee by the Director for the collection of maritime levies; or
permit the agent to retain a specified proportion of the maritime levies as a collection fee; or
both.

Compare

1952 No 49 s 377
1990 No 121 s 2

Notes

Section 193 heading: amended, on 23 October 2013, by section 36(1) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
Section 193(1): amended, on 7 August 2020, by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).
Section 193(1): amended, on 23 October 2013, by section 36(3) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
Section 193(1): amended, on 23 October 2013, by section 36(4) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
Section 193(1): amended, on 1 October 1996, by section 289(1) of the Customs and Excise Act 1996 (1996 No 27).
Section 193(2)(a): amended, on 23 October 2013, by section 36(3) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
Section 193(2)(a): amended, on 23 October 2013, by section 36(4) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
Section 193(2)(b): amended, on 23 October 2013, by section 36(3) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).
Section 193(2)(b): amended, on 23 October 2013, by section 36(4) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).