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Animal Products Act 1999

Cost recovery

114: Methods of cost recovery

You could also call this:

"How the government gets back the money it spends on animal product services"

When it comes to recovering costs under this Part of the law, you can use several methods. You can use fixed fees or charges, or fees based on a scale or formula. You can also recover the actual and reasonable costs of providing a service.

You can pay estimated fees or charges before a service is provided, and then sort out the final cost later. You might pay a deposit before a service is provided, which could be refundable or non-refundable. Fees or charges can be imposed on people using services, or on third parties, and you can also use levies to recover costs.

You can use any of these methods, or a combination of them, to recover costs under this Part of the law, as outlined in the Animal Products Act 1999.

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Part 9Cost recovery

114Methods of cost recovery

  1. The methods by which costs may be recovered under this Part are as follows:

  2. fixed fees or charges:
    1. fees or charges based on a scale or formula or at a rate determined on an hourly or other unit basis:
      1. the recovery by way of fee or charge of actual and reasonable costs expended in or associated with the performance of a service or function:
        1. estimated fees or charges, or fees or charges based on estimated costs, paid before the provision of the service or function, followed by reconciliation and an appropriate further payment or refund after provision of the service or function:
          1. refundable or non-refundable deposits paid before provision of the service or performance of the function:
            1. fees or charges imposed on users of services or third parties:
              1. levies:
                1. any combination of the above.

                  Notes
                  • Section 114(b): amended, on , by section 39 of the Animal Products Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 29).