Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MOTOR VEHICLE STANDARDS ACT 1989 - SECT 24

             (1)  The regulations may prescribe fees, or a method of calculating fees, to be paid to the Commonwealth in respect of:

                     (a)  the placing, or approval of the placing, of identification plates, including the carrying out of tests to find out whether a road vehicle should have an identification plate or whether a road vehicle or road vehicles of a particular type should continue to have identification plates; or

                     (b)  applications under section 13A, 13C, 14A, 15 or 16 for an approval; or

                     (c)  applications for approval to import a road vehicle or a vehicle component under section 19; or

                     (d)  applications for approval to import a road vehicle or a vehicle component under regulations referred to in subsection 20(3); or

                    (da)  applications under section 21A for an approval, applications under section 21C to renew an approval or applications under section 21E to vary an approval; or

                     (e)  the supply of copies of the national standards in force from time to time; or

                      (f)  the provision of other services, or the supply of other documents or goods, by the Commonwealth under this Act or the regulations.

             (2)  Prescribed fees are due and payable in such manner and at such time or times as are prescribed.

             (3)  Where a fee that is required to be paid at the time of making an application or request is not so paid, the application or request is not to be taken to have been duly made.

             (4)  A prescribed fee is not to be such as to amount to taxation.

             (5)  The regulations may make provision for and in relation to the refund of any fees paid under this section in respect of an application under section 21A.