New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMERCIAL VESSELS ACT 1979 - SECT 30

30 Fees etc for survey of vessel and check of motor

(1) Before:

(a) a vessel is surveyed pursuant to its survey schedule or a requirement under section 29, or

(b) a motor is checked pursuant to section 28 or a requirement under section 29,

the prescribed fees, charges and expenses for the survey or check, as the case may be, shall be paid.

(2) The regulations may provide for the payment of specified fees and charges in respect of the survey of a vessel and the checking of a motor and may provide for different fees, charges and expenses according to such different factors as are prescribed.

(3) Where, at the request of a person submitting a vessel for survey or a motor for checking, 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, that person shall pay to the Minister the travelling and accommodation expenses of the surveyor incurred by reason of that attendance.

(4) Where, upon attending to survey a vessel, or to check a motor, at a place and time of which the owner of the vessel or motor, as the case may be, has been given reasonable notice by an officer of the Minister, or at a place or time referred to in subsection (3), a surveyor is unable to carry out the survey or check by reason of the vessel or motor not being made available in a position or condition which permits the making of the survey or check, all fees, charges and expenses already paid shall be retained by the Minister and shall be deemed not to have been paid in respect of any survey of the vessel or check of the motor subsequently carried out.

(5) Where the survey of a vessel or the check of a motor is carried out pursuant to a requirement of the Minister under section 29 (4) and no defect or deficiency in the vessel or motor is found, all fees, charges and expenses paid in connection with the survey or check (other than fees, charges and expenses that the Minister is entitled to retain under subsection (4)) shall be refunded.