Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00735:clause:1_17a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A00735
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 17A
Character Range: 113032–113855

17A  Reduction of excessive costs

 (1) The Minister may, by written instrument, formulate principles or rules that are to be applied in determining the extent (if any) to which costs are to be treated as excessive for the purposes of subsection 17(3).

 (2) For the purposes of the application of subsection 17(3) in relation to a particular claim period, if:
 (a) a person has incurred costs of a kind mentioned in paragraph 17(3)(a); and
 (b) the costs are treated, under the principles or rules in force under subsection (1), as excessive to any extent;
the amount of the costs is to be reduced by the amount of the excess.

 (3) An instrument under subsection (1) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

Division 11—Regulation of universal service charges