Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Export Inspection Charge Collection Act 1985 No. 27 of 1985 - SECT 11

11. (1) Where the liability of a person to pay any charge is not discharged on
or before the day on which the charge is due for payment, there is payable by
that person to the Commonwealth by way of penalty, in addition to that charge,
an amount calculated at the rate of 20% per annum upon that charge or upon
such part of that charge as from time to time remains unpaid, to be computed
from the time when that charge became due for payment.

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

(3) The power under sub-section (2) to remit the whole or a part of an amount
payable under this section shall not be exercised by an authorized person in a
case where the amount exceeds $1,000.