Dog Control Act 1996

Registration and registration fees

35B: Levy to fund costs of national dog control information database

You could also call this:

"A yearly fee to help pay for a national dog database"

The Governor-General can impose a levy on territorial authorities each year to fund the national dog control information database. You need to know that this levy is to maintain the database, not to set it up. The order will specify how much the levy is or how it is calculated, and it may say how and when the levy must be paid.

The territorial authority has to pay the levy required by the order. If the authority does not pay the levy, the amount owed can be recovered in court as a debt to the Crown. An order under this section is secondary legislation, see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements.

The order may also allow for over-recoveries to be deducted from a levy payable in subsequent years, or for under-recoveries to be added to a levy payable in subsequent years.

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35BLevy to fund costs of national dog control information database

  1. 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.

  2. Subsection (1) does not apply to the costs of establishing the national dog control information database.

  3. The order—

  4. must specify the amount of the levy or the way that the levy must be calculated; and
    1. may authorise—
      1. the deduction of over-recoveries in respect of a financial year from a levy payable in subsequent financial years; or
        1. the addition of under-recoveries in respect of a financial year to a levy payable in subsequent financial years; and
        2. may prescribe how and when the levy must be paid or collected.
          1. A territorial authority must pay a levy required by an order made under subsection (1).

          2. The amount of unpaid levy is recoverable in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due to the Crown.

          3. 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).