New South Wales Consolidated Acts

OPTICAL DISPENSERS ACT 1963 - SECT 23

23 Roll fee

(1) Every optical dispenser shall in or before the month of March in each year pay to the secretary a roll fee of such amount as may be prescribed for the following year commencing on the first day of July.

(2) If any optical dispenser does not pay the prescribed roll fee before the thirty-first day of March in any year the board shall forthwith notify the optical dispenser by letter addressed to the optical dispenser at the optical dispenser’s address appearing in the record kept by the board under section 21 (2A) that if the fee be not paid before the first day of July next following the optical dispenser’s name will be removed from the register.

(2A) If any optical dispenser who has been so notified fails to pay such fee before the said first day of July, the board shall remove the optical dispenser’s name from the register.

(3) If the name of any optical dispenser is removed from the register under this section, the board shall, upon application in the prescribed form, restore the name to the register upon payment of such fees as are prescribed.

(3A) The regulations may provide for the waiver of such part of the fees as the board may in any particular case deem proper.

(4) Together with the roll fee the optical dispenser shall furnish particulars of the optical dispenser’s address for entry in the record kept by the board under section 21 (2A).

(5) Where the name of an optical dispenser has been removed from the register and until the name has been restored thereto, the optical dispenser shall be deemed not to be licensed under this Act.