Northern Territory Numbered Acts

PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2020 (NO 14 OF 2020) - SECT 4

After section 52

insert

52A     CHO's power to charge fees during emergencies

    (1)     The CHO may charge a fee, of an amount decided by the CHO but no greater than the amount prescribed by regulation, to a person or class of persons for any action taken under section 52(1) that requires the person or class to enter and remain quarantined at a place after entering the Territory from a place outside the Territory.

    (2)     A person or class of persons must pay any fee determined under subsection (1) that is charged to the person or class.

    (3)     The fee is recoverable as a debt due to the Territory from the person or class of persons so charged.

    (4)     A fee charged under this section may have effect from the day this section commences in respect of any quarantine that begins on or after that day.