24Levying of rates

24 Levying of rates

24 Levying of rates

(1) A committee levies a rate on a constituent by causing notice—

(a) to be served on the constituent, or

(b) to be published in a manner approved by the Minister having regard to the object of bringing notices of that kind to the attention of constituents.

(2) The notice must indicate—

(a) the rate and, if appropriate, the circumstances in which the rate becomes payable, and

(b) the date or dates on which, or the period or periods at the end of which, the rate falls due, and

(c) the agricultural industry service or services to be funded by the rate.

(3) The rate falls due in accordance with the terms of the notice, except that no part of it falls due before the expiry of 14 days after the notice is published.

(4) A rate levied by the committee on a constituent is not a charge on land.

(5) A person does not cease to be liable for a rate that a committee levies on the person while the person is a constituent of the committee merely because the person subsequently ceases to be a constituent of the committee.

(6) In the case of a rate that becomes payable when a constituent delivers a commodity to another person—

(a) the committee may enter into an arrangement with the other person under which that person becomes a collecting agent for the committee in relation to such rates, and

(b) where such an arrangement is in place, any amount—

(i) that a constituent pays, on account of any such rate, to the collecting agent, or

(ii) that the collecting agent debits, on account of any such rate, from money owed by it to a constituent,

is taken to have been paid to the committee when it was paid to, or debited by, the collecting agent.

s 24: Subst 2007 No 76, Sch 1 [4]. Am 2018 No 25, Sch 2.1 [2].