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Customer and Product Data Act 2025

Administrative matters - Regulations, standards, and exemptions - Regulations

136: Miscellaneous provisions relating to levies

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“Rules for paying different amounts and what happens if you don't pay”

If you belong to more than one group of people who have to pay different amounts of money for something, you’ll need to pay each of those amounts unless the rules say otherwise.

If you don’t pay the money you owe, the person in charge or someone else chosen for this job can take you to court to get the money back for the government.

The person in charge, or someone else chosen for this job, has to make sure that each payment goes into a special government bank account. They also need to keep track of each payment separately.

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

136Miscellaneous provisions relating to levies

  1. If a person is in 2 or more classes of specified persons in respect of which different levies have been prescribed under section 135, the person must pay each of those levies (unless the regulations provide otherwise).

  2. The amount of any unpaid levy is recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due to the chief executive, or to any other person prescribed for the purposes of this subsection, on behalf of the Crown.

  3. The chief executive, or any other person prescribed for the purposes of this subsection, must ensure that each levy payment is paid into a Crown Bank Account and is separately accounted for.