BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE PAYMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 47 Recovery of long service levies

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE PAYMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 47

47 Recovery of long service levies

(1) A long service levy shall be deemed when it becomes due and payable to be a debt due to Her Majesty and payable to the Corporation.

(2) Any long service levy unpaid may be sued for and recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction by the Corporation or on behalf of the Corporation by any person appointed by it to act on its behalf.

(3) Where, from such information as satisfies the Corporation, it appears to the Corporation--

(a) that a building is being, or has been, erected,

(b) that a person is liable to pay a long service levy to the Corporation in respect of the erection of the building, and

(c) that the long service levy has not been fully paid,

the Corporation may estimate and make an assessment of the amount of the long service levy that in its opinion is due by that person in respect of the erection of the building.

(4) The Corporation shall cause notice of any such assessment to be served on the person to whom the assessment relates.

(5) In any proceedings before a court for the recovery of a debt referred to in subsection (1), a certificate purporting to be signed by the Chief Executive Officer or a prescribed officer certifying that an assessment has been made under this section on a person specified in the assessment as the person by whom the amount assessed is due and specifying the amount assessed shall be admissible in evidence and be evidence that the person so specified is indebted to the Corporation for the amount assessed.