PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 257 Liability to pay quarantine detention fees
PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELLBEING ACT 2008 - SECT 257
Liability to pay quarantine detention fees(1) A quarantined person is liable to pay to the State the prescribed fees relating to the quarantined person's detention at a specified place of detention.
(2) If the quarantined person is a child, the parents of the child are jointly and severally liable to pay to the State the prescribed fees relating to that child's detention at a specified place of detention.
(3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), if 2 or more adults are detained together at a specified place of detention that is shared accommodation, whether or not with any children, all the adults are jointly and severally liable to pay to the State the prescribed fees relating to each person's detention at that specified place.
S. 257(4) inserted by No. 53/2021 s. 48.
(4) Despite subsections (1), (2) and (3), if any other person has provided written notice to COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria stating that the person accepts liability to pay to the State the prescribed fees relating to a quarantined person's detention at a specified place of detention, that other person is liable to pay those fees.
New s. 258 inserted by No. 44/2020 s. 5.