- Laws of Fiji

[PA 215] Payment and application of fees and other money paid under this Act215

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(1) All fees and other money required to be paid by this Act or the regulations must be paid to the Commissioner (unless this Act or the regulations require otherwise).

(2) The Commissioner must pay all the fees or other money paid to him or her under this Act into the Consolidated Fund.

(3) Any sum paid to the Commissioner by mistake, or any sum the payment of which is not required by the regulations, may be refunded by the Commissioner, and all money so refunded may be paid out of public money without further appropriation than this Act.

(4) Any amount of a fee or other money required to be paid by this Act or the regulations that is not paid is recoverable in a court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due to the State or, if the Act or regulations require it to be paid to a person other than the Commissioner, as a debt due to that person.

(5) This section applies to fines, disciplinary penalties and costs orders imposed under this Act other than fines for offences.