Queensland Consolidated Acts

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 83

83 Regulatory authority may charge reasonable fees

(1) A regulatory authority may charge fees for services that it provides, including, for example, the services provided by the authority as part of performing its functions under this Act.

Example of a service that a regulatory authority provides as part of performing its functions under this Act—

granting or renewing a practising certificate

(2) The fee for a service must be reasonable having regard to the cost to the regulatory authority of performing all of its functions under this Act and the funding that the authority has received under this Act, and a fee for a service is not unreasonable only because the particular fee is more than the cost of providing the specific service.

(3) The fees set by a regulatory authority must be included in its administration rules.

(4) Despite subsection (1) , a regulatory authority may not charge a fee for a service provided to another entity that has functions under this Act except so far as the other entity has arranged, on a commercial basis, for the regulatory authority to perform a service associated with the functions of the other entity.