Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES AUTHORITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA ACT 1998 - SECT 36X

36X .         Interest payable on amounts not paid by due date to Authority

        (1)         Interest accrues on an amount of levy or levy interest that is received by a local government and not paid to the Authority from the time it becomes due and payable as determined under section 36V.

        (2)         For the purposes of this section, the Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette  —

            (a)         declare a rate of interest that applies to any unpaid amount of levy or levy interest; or

            (b)         change or revoke a rate of interest declared under paragraph (a).

        (3)         An unpaid amount of levy or levy interest, and interest payable on that amount, may be recovered from a local government in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due to the Authority.

        [Section 36X inserted by No. 42 of 2002 s. 15.]