New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (AQUACULTURE) REGULATION 2007 - REG 23

23 Contributions to be made by certain class A permit holders

(1) A class A permit holder to whom this Division applies must pay to the Minister, to secure the due performance of the permit holder’s payment obligations under the Act, an annual contribution of $40 for each hectare, or part of a hectare, of the aquaculture farm or farms to which the permit relates, in respect of each period of 12 months beginning on 1 July in any year.

(2) If the total area of the aquaculture farm or farms to which an aquaculture permit relates is less than 1 hectare, the contribution required by this clause is that payable for 1 hectare.

(3) A contribution required by this clause must be paid, at the permit holder’s option, either:

(a) annually, on or before a date determined by the Minister and notified to the permit holder, or

(b) by instalments.

(4) For the purpose of allowing the payment of a contribution by instalments, the Minister is required:

(a) to determine the amounts of the instalments that are payable, or the manner in which they are to be calculated, and

(b) to determine the dates on which the instalments are payable, and

(c) to notify the amounts (or the manner of the calculation) of the instalments, and the dates on which they are payable, to the permit holder concerned.

(5) If there is a failure to make a payment in accordance with such a notice, the Minister may treat the total unpaid balance as an overdue amount of contribution even if payment by instalments has begun.

(6) A class A permit holder to whom this Division applies may at any time elect to enter into an arrangement of a kind referred to in clause 19 (1). However, such an election does not affect the liability of the permit holder to pay the contribution for the period of 12 months in which the election is made or any previous 12 month period.