Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00489:section:32
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00489
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 32
Character Range: 87199–88331

32  Applications and notices to be accompanied by fees
 (1) The regulations may prescribe fees to be paid in relation to applications and notices given to the Minister under this Part or under a set of Article 11 regulations.
 (2) An application or notice given to the Minister under this Part or under a set of Article 11 regulations must be accompanied by the prescribed fee (if any).
 (3) If an application or notice given to the Minister under this Part or under a set of Article 11 regulations is not accompanied by the prescribed fee (if any), the application or notice is to be taken not to have been received by the Minister until the fee has been paid.
 (4) The amount or rate of a fee must be reasonably related to the expenses incurred or to be incurred by the Commonwealth in relation to the application or notice to which it relates, and must not be such as to amount to taxation.
 (5) The Minister may wholly or partly waive, or wholly or partly refund, a prescribed fee in circumstances prescribed by the regulations.
 (7) The regulations may make provision for and in relation to the indexation of prescribed fees.