Appropriate fee for copies
543 Appropriate fee for copies
This section applies if, under this Act, the administering authority or other entity must, on payment of the appropriate fee to the entity, give a person a copy of a document, or a part of a document.
The fee for the copy of the document or part of it is the amount that is the lesser of the following—
for the chief executive—the amount the chief executive decides is reasonable;
otherwise—the amount the administering authority decides is reasonable;
the amount that is no more than the reasonable cost incurred by the authority or other entity in making the copy and giving it to the person.
Despite subsection (2) or any other provision of this Act, the authority or other entity may give the document without the payment.
In this section—
document does not include the following registers or an extract from the registers—
the environmental management register;
the contaminated land register.
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