New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) Regulations may be made under this Act, on the recommendation of the Minister, prescribing fees and charges for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The fees and charges may be prescribed using any 1 or more of the methods specified in section 81A, or any combination of those methods.
(3) Different fees and charges, or different rates or types of fee or charge, may be prescribed in respect of different classes or descriptions of agricultural compound, persons or businesses, operations, or other matters, or any combination of them.
(4) Without limiting subsection (3), the fees and charges prescribed may—
(a) differ depending on whether or not a special or urgent service is provided:
(b) include more than 1 level of fee or charge for the same service provided in different ways, or provided in or in respect of different places:
(c) differ for otherwise similar services provided in different ways:
(d) differ for otherwise similar services provided to different categories of person:
(e) differ depending on the amount of service required or the components of the service required for the particular person or class of person.
(5) Where regulations prescribe a formula for determining a fee or charge, the formula may specify the value of 1 or more of its components as being an amount or amounts notified for these components by the Director-General by notice in the Gazette.
(6) The Minister may not recommend the making of regulations under this section unless satisfied that, to the extent appropriate in the circumstances, the requirements of sections 81 and 81B have been met.
Section 81D: inserted, on 18 October 2007, by section 51 of the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 93).
