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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 521A Time does not run if all or part of fee remains unpaid

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 521A

Time does not run if all or part of fee remains unpaid

  (1)   If:

  (a)   one or more fees are payable in respect of a service the Minister or Secretary provides in performing functions, or exercising powers, under this Act or the regulations; and

  (b)   a provision of this Act or the regulations:

  (i)   requires or allows the Minister or Secretary to do a thing relating to the service; or

  (ii)   requires or allows the Minister or Secretary to do a thing relating to the service within a particular period; and

  (c)   all of part of a fee relating to the service remains unpaid;

then:

  (d)   if subparagraph   (b)(i) applies--the Minister or Secretary need not do the thing until all of the required fee is paid; and

  (e)   if subparagraph   (b)(ii) applies and the period has not begun--the period does not begin until all of the required fee is paid; and

  (f)   if subparagraph   (b)(ii) applies and the period has begun--the period stops until all of the required fee is paid and, when paid, begins again for the balance of the period.

  (2)   For the purposes of paragraphs   (1)(e) and (f), the day that all of the required fee is paid is not to be counted in the relevant period.

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