15FCommittee processing fee

15F Committee processing fee

(1) The amount of the Committee processing fee is to be: (a) if the relevant period does not exceed 4 hours—the prescribed amount; or (b) if the relevant period exceeds 4 hours: (i) in respect of each period of 4 hours included in the relevant period—the prescribed amount; and (ii) if the relevant period includes an additional period of less than 4 hours—the prescribed amount in respect of that additional period. (2) The amount of the Committee processing fee is not to exceed $1,000 per day, or, if the Minister has, by notice, fixed another amount, that other amount. (3) Where a proprietor has in a request for review, authorised the deduction of the Committee processing fee payable to the proprietor from any amount or amounts payable to the proprietor, the amount of the Committee processing fee may be deducted from the payment of any such amount or amounts. (4) The Committee processing fee may be recovered by the Commonwealth in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due and payable to the Commonwealth. (5) A notice referred to in subsection (2) and in the definition of prescribed amount in subsection (6) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901. (6) In this section:

prescribed amount means $500 or, if the Minister has, by notice, fixed another amount, that other amount.

relevant period means the period, or the aggregate of the periods, during which the Committee met to examine the matter that is the subject of the Committee’s report.