59FLiability of person becoming occupier or owner

59F Liability of person becoming occupier or owner

59F Liability of person becoming occupier or owner

(1) A person who, in any year, becomes the occupier or owner of any land in respect of which a meat industry levy is due and payable for that year, shall be liable to the Food Authority for that meat industry levy and for all arrears of the levy owing by any previous occupier or owner in respect of the land, whether or not the person became the owner or occupier of the land after the meat industry levy became due and payable.

(2) Subsection (1) does not affect or extend to an occupier of land the subject of a lease, licence or purchase from the Crown, where the lease or licence is granted or purchase is made after a levy referred to in that subsection is payable, whether or not the land has been previously held under a lease, licence or purchase from the Crown.

(3) Any person may apply to the Food Authority for a certificate under this section as to the amount, if any, due or payable to the Food Authority by the occupier or owner of land for a meat industry levy in respect of the land or otherwise.

(4) An application for a certificate referred to in subsection (3) shall be made in the form approved by the Food Authority and shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.

(5) A certificate referred to in subsection (3) shall be in the form approved by the Food Authority.

(6) The production of a certificate referred to in subsection (3) shall be deemed to be conclusive proof in favour of a person who becomes an occupier or owner of the land to which the certificate relates that at the date of the certificate no levies, charges or sums other than those stated in the certificate were due or payable in respect of the land.

(7) For the purposes of this section levies, charges or sums of money shall be deemed to be due or payable notwithstanding that the requisite period after service of any notice may not have expired.

(8) If the occupier or owner of any land pays to the Food Authority or its agent any meat industry levy which accrued during the occupancy or ownership of the land by some other person, the occupier or owner may recover from that other person such proportion of the levy as accrued while that other person was the occupier or owner of the land.

s 59F: Ins 1985 No 171, Sch 1 (2). Am 1998 No 128, Sch 3 [21]; 2004 No 16, Sch 2.7 [5]; 2025 No 48, Sch 1.7[4].