State Debt Recovery Act 2018

The Chief Commissioner may approve any costs and expenses reasonably incurred by the Sheriff in taking action to recover a debt under this Act as debt recovery costs payable by the debtor under the debt recovery order.

The amount of those costs and expenses is to be determined in accordance with the scale applicable to the enforcement of judgment debts under the Civil Procedure Act 2005, but is to be reduced by the prescribed debt recovery costs payable to the Consolidated Fund for any action taken by the Sheriff or other official under this Act.

For the purposes of this section, the Chief Commissioner has the functions of the registrar of the relevant court with respect to the approval of those costs and expenses.

Debt recovery costs recoverable under this section are payable to the Sheriff and not to the Consolidated Fund.

The power of the Local Court to review a decision of a registrar of the Court in respect of any such debt recovery costs applies to a decision of the Chief Commissioner under this section.