(1) Regulations made
under section 224 prescribing a fee payable to the Registrar of Titles may
prescribe a fee that is more than the amount, or an estimate of the amount,
needed to allow recovery of expenditure —
(a)
incurred in connection with the matter in relation to which the fee is
charged; or
(b) that
is relevant to —
(i)
the scheme or system under which the action to which the
fee relates is taken; or
(ii)
the performance of any function to which the fee relates.
(2A) To the extent
that regulations to which subsection (1) applies prescribe a fee that includes
an amount that is a tax, the regulations may impose the tax.
[(2) deleted]
(3) This section does
not limit the Interpretation Act 1984 section 45A.
[Section 225, formerly section 131A, inserted: No.
11 of 2015 s. 8; amended: No. 12 of 2015 s. 6; amended, renumbered as
section 225 and relocated: No. 30 of 2018 s. 80 and 84.]