Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00181:section:16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00181
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 16
Character Range: 30765–31633

16  Payment of Commonwealth costs

Payment of Commonwealth costs
 (1) A recipient body that is paid amounts under section 15 must pay to the Commonwealth amounts equal to the Commonwealth's costs in:
 (a) collecting or recovering the amounts covered by paragraphs 15(1)(a), (b) and (c); and
 (b) administering section 15 in relation to the making of the payments to the body under that section.
 (2) The Secretary must give the recipient body written notice of:
 (a) the amount of those costs; and
 (b) the period within which the body must pay the amount under subsection (1).

Debt
 (3) If an amount payable by a recipient body under subsection (1) remains unpaid at the end of that period, the amount:
 (a) is a debt due to the Commonwealth; and
 (b) may be recovered by the Minister, on behalf of the Commonwealth, by action in a court of competent jurisdiction.