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Administrative matters - Regulations, standards, and exemptions - Regulations

133: Regulations relating to fees and charges

You could also call this:

“Rules about paying for services under this law”

The Governor-General can make rules about fees and charges for certain things. These rules are based on what the Minister suggests. Here’s what these rules can do:

They can say that accredited requestors need to pay fees to the chief executive when the chief executive does something for them under this law. They can also say that anyone who asks the chief executive to do something under this law needs to pay fees.

The rules can set the exact amounts for these fees, or they can explain how to calculate them.

The rules might let the chief executive give back some or all of the fee to certain people, or not make them pay at all. The chief executive would have to follow any conditions set out in the rules when doing this.

When these rules are made, they become a type of law called secondary legislation. This means they need to be published in a special way, as explained in another law called the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 5 Administrative matters
Regulations, standards, and exemptions: Regulations

133Regulations relating to fees and charges

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

  2. requiring the payment to the chief executive of fees and charges—
    1. by any accredited requestor in connection with the performance or exercise by the chief executive of any function, power, or duty under this Act:
      1. on an application or a request from any person to the chief executive to perform or exercise any function, power, or duty under this Act:
      2. prescribing the amounts of those fees and charges or the manner in which those fees and charges are to be calculated.

        1. Regulations may authorise the chief executive to refund or waive, in whole or in part and on any conditions that may be prescribed, payment of the fee or charge in relation to any 1 or more named persons.

        2. Regulations made under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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