68Application fee

68 Application fee (1) An applicant must pay the prescribed fee (if any) for the application. (2) The principal registrar may determine the fee payable for a joint application as if a separate application had been made by each person who makes the joint application. S. 68(3) amended by No. 51/2000 s. 18(1). (3) If the fee is not paid at the time the application is lodged, the Tribunal is to take no further action in respect of the application (other than action referred to in subsection (4)) until— (a) the fee is paid; or (b) the fee is waived under section 132; or (c) if the fee is reduced under section 132, the reduced fee is paid. S. 68(3A) inserted by No. 20/2015 s. 17(1). (3A) Subsection (3) does not apply in respect of an application for which payment of the fee is postponed. S. 68(4) substituted by No. 51/2000 s. 18(2). (4) If the fee is not paid within 30 days after the day on which the application is lodged, the Tribunal may make an order striking out the proceeding, unless— (a) the fee has been waived under section 132 in that period; or (b) the fee has been reduced under section 132 and the reduced fee has been paid in that period; or S. 68(4)(c) amended by No. 20/2015 s. 17(2). (c) an applicant has requested the reduction, waiver or postponement of the fee and the request has not been determined by the end of that period. S. 68(5) inserted by No. 20/2015 s. 17(3). (5) Despite subsections (3) and (4), in the case of a fee which has been postponed, the Tribunal may make an order striking out the proceeding if the postponed fee is not paid by the date specified for payment when it was postponed.