Commonwealth Numbered Acts

APPLE AND PEAR LEVY COLLECTION ACT 1976 No. 196 of 1976 - SECT 7

7. (1) Where the liability of the grower of any fruit to pay any amount of
levy on the fruit is not discharged on or before the date when the levy is
payable, there is payable to the Commonwealth by way of penalty, in addition
to the amount of the levy, an amount calculated at the rate of 10 per centum
per annum upon the amount of the levy from time to time remaining unpaid, to
be computed from the date on which the levy became payable.

(2) A penalty under sub-section (1) is payable-

   (a)  where the penalty relates to levy in respect of fruit sold by the
        grower to a quantity purchaser or dealer or fruit sold by a dealer on
        behalf of the grower-by the quantity purchaser or dealer; or

   (b)  in any other case-by the grower.

(3) The Minister or, subject to sub-section (4), a person authorized in
writing by the Minister to grant remissions under this sub-section may, in a
particular case, for reasons that the Minister or the person, as the case may
be, in his discretion thinks sufficient, remit the whole or a part of an
amount payable under this section.

(4) A remission granted under sub-section (3) by a person other than the
Minister shall not exceed $100.