New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMERCIAL AGENTS AND PRIVATE INQUIRY AGENTS ACT 2004 - SECT 19

19 Licensee not to charge debtor for expenses of debt collecting

(1) A licensee must not request, demand or collect from a person (the "debtor") any payment for the costs or expenses incurred by the licensee in connection with the collection from that person of money due under a debt.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units.

(2) Any money received from the debtor by a licensee in contravention of subsection (1) may be recovered by the debtor from the licensee, as a debt, in any court of competent jurisdiction.

(3) This section does not limit any right that the person to whom the debt is payable (the "creditor") may have at law with respect to the recovery from the debtor of the creditor’s costs in recovering the debt.