Registration of Deeds Act 1856

Regulations made under section 22 prescribing a fee that may be charged by the Registrar of Deeds and Transfers 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.