35BLevy to fund costs of national dog control information database
The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, impose a levy on territorial authorities in each financial year to fund the costs of maintaining the national dog control information database.
Subsection (1) does not apply to the costs of establishing the national dog control information database.
The order—
- must specify the amount of the levy or the way that the levy must be calculated; and
- may authorise—
- the deduction of over-recoveries in respect of a financial year from a levy payable in subsequent financial years; or
- the addition of under-recoveries in respect of a financial year to a levy payable in subsequent financial years; and
- the deduction of over-recoveries in respect of a financial year from a levy payable in subsequent financial years; or
- may prescribe how and when the levy must be paid or collected.
A territorial authority must pay a levy required by an order made under subsection (1).
The amount of unpaid levy is recoverable in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due to the Crown.
An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).
Notes
- Section 35B: inserted, on , by section 23 of the Dog Control Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 119).
- Section 35B(4): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
- Section 35B(6): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).