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Fisheries Act 1996

Cost recovery

267: Payment of levies

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"How to pay fishing levies"

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You have to pay levies as stated in the order or within 20 days of getting a demand from the chief executive. The chief executive can change or delay the payment of a levy if there was a mistake in the calculation. You can also make a repayment arrangement with the chief executive if you owe a levy.

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Part 14Cost recovery

267Payment of levies

  1. Levies imposed by an order under section 264 are payable in accordance with the order or, if the order does not make such provision, within 20 days after the receipt of a demand from the chief executive.

  2. The chief executive may remit, waive, or defer the payment of a levy, in whole or in part, to correct an administrative error made in calculating the amount due.

  3. The chief executive and a person liable to pay a levy may enter into an arrangement for repayment of the amount of levy due.

Notes
  • Section 267: substituted, on , by section 63 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).