Member

I turn to Amendment 109. The purpose of Clause 8 is to enable relevant authorities to recover the costs of their enforcement activities. The fees collected through cost-recovery powers are intended to meet the costs already incurred in the process of enforcement activity. It follows that enforcement authorities will be able to take other and more action if recouping costs means that their activities become more financially sustainable. The precise circumstances where the use of those powers will be available, as well as the handling and redistribution of those funds between authorities, will be laid out in regulations that contain cost-recovery powers.