Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00748:section:40
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00748
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 40
Character Range: 69855–70839

40  Fees
 (1) The regulations may prescribe the fees to be paid in respect of an application for a permit or of any other application under this Act.
 (2) A fee prescribed in respect of an application under this Act shall be paid when the application is made or at such other time (if any) as is prescribed and, if the fee is not so paid, the application shall be deemed not to be duly made.
 (3) The Minister may, if he or she considers it necessary or desirable to do so, waive or remit the payment of any fee payable in respect of an application and, if he or she does so, subsection (2) does not apply in relation to that application.
 (4) The Minister may, if he or she considers it necessary or desirable to do so, waive or remit the payment of part of any fee payable in respect of an application and, if the Minister does so, the fee prescribed in respect of the application shall, for the purposes of subsection (2), be taken to be reduced by the amount waived or remitted.