Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090:section:99yba
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 99YBA
Character Range: 468186–469503

99YBA  Payment of fees etc. for certain services
 (1) The regulations may make provision in relation to services provided by the Commonwealth in relation to the exercise of a power by the Minister under any of the following:
 (a) section 9B;
 (b) a provision in Part VII (other than a provision in that Part prescribed by the regulations).
 (2) Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may make provision in relation to the following:
 (a) the making of applications for those services;
 (b) prescribing fees for those services;
 (c) the time that prescribed fees are due and payable (including extending the time for payment of the fees);
 (d) the manner of payment of prescribed fees (including payment by instalments);
 (e) the payment of penalties in respect of late payment of prescribed fees;
 (f) exemptions from prescribed fees;
 (g) the waiver, remission or refund of prescribed fees;
 (h) the refusal to provide those services until a prescribed fee is paid;
 (i) the review of decisions made under the regulations.
 (3) A prescribed fee must not be such as to amount to taxation.
 (4) A prescribed fee is payable to the Commonwealth.
 (5) A prescribed fee that is due and payable may be recovered by the Commonwealth as a debt due to the Commonwealth.

Subdivision C—Consequences if fees not paid