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Liquor and Accommodation Act 1990 (No. 44 of 1990)
Requested:  23 May 2013
Consolidated as at:  Sessional

Division 9 - Licence fees – wine producers licence

203. Licence fee

      (1) The prescribed licence fee is payable by the licensee to the Commissioner on the grant of a wine producers licence and subsequently on 1 January in each year.

      (2) The fee payable on the grant of a wine producers licence may be reduced proportionately where the licence is granted other than on 1 January in any year.

204. Commissioner to assess wine producers licence fee

      (1) The Commissioner shall –

(a) assess a licence fee payable by the licensee in accordance with section 203; and

(b) send a notice to the licensee informing the licensee of the amount of the licence fee the licensee is required to pay.

      (2) If the Commissioner is satisfied that an assessment of a licence fee was too high the Commissioner may –

(a) reassess the fee; and

(b) either –

(i) refund any over-payment; or

(ii) remit any subsequent licence fee payable by the licensee to the extent of any over-payment.

205. Penalty for late payment of wine producers licence fee

      (1) If a licensee fails to pay a wine producers licence fee by the prescribed time there is payable by the licensee an additional fee of 10% of the amount due for payment.

      (2) If a licensee fails to pay a wine producers licence fee –

(a) within one month of it becoming payable; or

(b) by any later date the Commissioner may agree –

the licence is suspended.

      (3) The suspension of a licence in accordance with subsection (2) ends when any outstanding licence fee payable by the licensee is paid to the Commissioner.