Certain prescribed fees may exceed cost recovery
188 Certain prescribed fees may exceed cost recovery
Regulations prescribing a fee payable to the Registrar of Titles may prescribe a fee that is more than the amount, or an estimate of the amount, needed to allow recovery of expenditure —
incurred in connection with the matter in relation to which the fee is charged; or
that is relevant to —
the scheme or system under which the action to which the fee relates is taken; or
the performance of any function to which the fee relates.
To the extent that regulations to which subsection (1) applies prescribe a fee that includes an amount that is a tax, the regulations may impose the tax.
This section does not limit the Interpretation Act 1984 section 45A.
[Section 188 amended: No. 33 of 2018 s. 4.]
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