Quarantine Service Fees (Australia Post) Amendment (Cost Recovery) Determination 2015 (Cth)

Quarantine Service Fees (Australia Post) Amendment (Cost Recovery) Determination 2015

I, Barnaby Joyce, Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, make the following determination.

Dated 26 November 2015

Barnaby Joyce

Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments  2

Quarantine Service Fees (Australia Post) Determination 2010  2

1  Name

This is the Quarantine Service Fees (Australia Post) Amendment (Cost Recovery) Determination 2015.

2  Commencement

(1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument	1 December 2015.	1 December 2015

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under section 86E of the Quarantine Act 1908.

4  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Quarantine Service Fees (Australia Post) Determination 2010

1  Section 3

Repeal the section.

2  Section 4

Insert:

late payment fee has the meaning given by section 86E of the Act.

payment day has the meaning given by section 86E of the Act.

quarantine service has the meaning given by section 86E of the Act.

3  Section 4 (note)

Repeal the note.

4  Subsection 5(2)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(2)  The amount of the fee for a relevant financial year is as follows:

(a)  for a financial year commencing on or before 1 July 2015—$8 200 000;

(b)  for the financial year commencing on 1 July 2016—$11 700 000;

(c)  for the financial year commencing on 1 July 2017—$15 100 000;

(d)  for the financial year commencing on 1 July 2018—$15 300 000.

5  Sections 6 and 7

Repeal the sections, substitute:

6  Time for payment

(1)  An annual fee is payable:

(a)  by a single payment; or

(b)  in 2 or more equal instalments.

(2)  An annual fee, or an instalment of an annual fee, is payable within 30 days after the day the demand for payment of the fee or the instalment is made.

7  Late payment fee

(1)  If an annual fee, or an instalment of an annual fee, is not paid on or before the payment day for the fee or the instalment, a late payment fee must be paid by Australia Post.

(2)  The amount of the late payment fee is worked out using the following formula:

where:

days overdue is the number of days after the payment day and before the day on which the annual fee or the instalment (as the case requires) is paid.

unpaid amount is the amount of the annual fee or the instalment (as the case requires) that has not been paid.