Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines (Fees, Charges, and Levies) Regulations 2015.

These regulations, consisting of 7 sections, prescribe new fees, charges, and levies payable under the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997. Regulation 4 provides that the fees, charges, and levies set out in Schedules 1 and 2 are payable and are GST exclusive. Regulation 5 sets out when the fees, charges, and levies are payable. Regulation 6 authorises the Director-General to grant an exemption from, or to waive or refund, any fee, charge, or levy. This includes power to grant an exemption, waiver, or refund in any of the circumstances described in section 44ZO(1)(a) to (c) of the Act. Schedule 1 prescribes the fees and charges payable under these regulations and who is responsible for paying them. The fees and charges include: a fee for 20 types of matters and processes: a fee for the performance or exercise of a function, duty, or power required to be undertaken under the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997 and not prescribed elsewhere in the regulations: actual and reasonable costs, including actual and reasonable incidental and additional costs incurred by a Ministry employee, or a person engaged by the Ministry who is not an employee, such as the costs of external review, expert review, product testing, travel, and accommodation, and also the costs of disbursements for the functions referred to in the schedule. Schedule 2 prescribes the levies payable under these regulations and who is responsible for paying them. These regulations will be treated as having been revoked with the close of 30 June 2016 unless they are confirmed by an Act of Parliament passed on or before that day (see section 81L of the Act).