81Expenses of administration

81 Expenses of administration (1) The expenses of and incidental to the conduct of the affairs of an incorporated association by a statutory manager are payable from the association's funds. Associations Act 2003 55 (2) Those expenses include: (a) if the statutory manager is not a public sector employee, remuneration of the administrator at a rate approved by the Director; or (b) if the statutory manager is a public sector employee, the amount that the Director certifies is to be paid to the Territory as repayment of the statutory manager's remuneration. (3) An amount certified under subsection (2)(b) is a debt due to the Territory. (4) A statutory manager has, in relation to the expenses specified in subsection (1), the same priority on the winding up of an incorporated association as the liquidator of the association has.