New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

PORTS AND MARITIME ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2012 - REG 37

37 Invoicing and payment of financial penalties

(cf PMA Regulation 2007 cl 18X)

(1) The mandatory standards can include provision for or with respect to--

(a) the systems and procedures to be implemented for invoicing in connection with financial penalties, and

(b) the data and information to be relied on in determining liability for financial penalties, and

(c) the procedures for the payment and processing of payment of financial penalties, and

(d) the circumstances in which an industry participant is or is not permitted to make any deduction from or set off against a financial penalty payable by the industry participant.

(2) An industry participant must pay any financial penalty payable under this Part by the industry participant to another industry participant--

(a) within 14 days after receiving an invoice for the penalty from the other industry participant, and

(b) in accordance with any procedures established by the mandatory standards for the payment and processing of payment of financial penalties.

: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.

(3) The mandatory standards can provide for the circumstances in which a financial penalty that would otherwise be payable under this Part is not payable or is to be reduced.

(4) The amount of any financial penalty fixed by this Part does not include GST, and the amount of the penalty payable in any particular case is to be increased by any applicable GST payable in respect of the payment of the penalty.

(5) A financial penalty is recoverable as a debt.