New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMERCIAL VESSELS ACT 1979 - SECT 17

17 Payment of fees, charges and expenses

(1) The regulations may provide for the payment of specified fees and charges in respect of an application for a permit and investigation of the application and may provide for different fees and charges according to such different factors as are prescribed.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1):

(a) fees for a vessel permit may be prescribed according to the tonnage of a vessel or otherwise according to its size or dimensions and also according to its type, class or proposed use, and

(b) charges may be prescribed as scales varying according to the time spent on an investigation or as a fixed amount according to the class of investigation with scales of additional charges varying according to the time in excess of a specified time spent on an investigation.

(3) Where, at the request of an applicant for a permit, a surveyor attends at a place where, or at a time when, the surveyor would not, except in response to that request, have been engaged on official duties, the applicant shall pay to the Minister the travelling and accommodation expenses of the surveyor incurred by reason of that attendance.