Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00288:reg:13
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00288
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 13
Character Range: 17528–18948

13  Method for determining the amount of a fee
 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 31(2)(b) of the Act, this section determines the method for working out the amount of the fee that may be charged in relation to the disclosure of protected information to a person under section 21 or 22 of the Act by a contracted service provider in response to a specific request by the person.
Note: For contracted service provider, see section 8 of the Act.
 (2) The amount of the fee is worked out by multiplying the relevant hourly rate by the total number of hours spent by the contracted service provider to disclose the information (including extracting the information from the National Registry for the purposes of the disclosure and preparing the information for disclosure).
 (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), if the total number of hours spent by the contracted service provider to disclose the information is not a whole number of hours, the total number of hours is to be rounded to the nearest hour (rounding half an hour upwards).
 (4) For the purposes of subsection (2), the relevant hourly rate is as follows:
 (a) in relation to the disclosure of information to be used for the purposes of research—$49.50;
 (b) in relation to the disclosure of information in the form of a tailored report for a State or Territory authority—$66.00.
Note: For research and State or Territory authority, see section 8 of the Act.