Commonwealth Numbered Acts

BARLEY RESEARCH ACT 1980 No. 168 of 1980 - SECT 7

7. (1) Subject to sub-section (3), where the liability of the grower of any
barley to pay levy is not discharged at or before the time when that levy is
due and payable, there is payable by him to the Commonwealth by way of
penalty, in addition to that levy, an amount calculated at the rate of 10% per
annum upon that levy or upon that part of that levy from time to time
remaining unpaid, to be computed from the time when that levy became due and
payable.

(2) Subject to sub-section (3), where-

   (a)  in pursuance of sub-section 6(2), the purchaser of any barley has been
        provided with funds necessary for the due payment, on behalf of the
        grower, of the amount referred to in sub-section 6(1); and

   (b)  the purchaser has not, at or before the time when, under section 5,
        the levy becomes due and payable by the grower, paid to the
        Commonwealth, on behalf of the grower, the whole or any part of the
        amount of the funds so provided, there is payable by the purchaser to
        the Commonwealth by way of penalty, in addition to the amount payable
        by the purchaser to the Commonwealth under sub-section 6(1), an amount
        calculated at the rate of 10% per annum upon the amount of the funds
        so provided, or so much of that amount as has not been paid to the
        Commonwealth, to be computed from the time when the levy became due
        and payable.

(3) The Minister or, subject to sub-section (4), an authorized officer may, in
a particular case, for reasons that the Minister or the authorized officer, as
the case may be, in his discretion thinks sufficient, remit the whole or a
part of an amount payable under this section.

(4) The power under sub-section (3) to remit the whole or a part of an amount
payable under this section shall not be exercised by an authorized officer in
a case where that amount exceeds $500.