| (1) |
All fees or other amounts payable by any person in terms of any provision of this Act, except amounts that are fixed under any such provision by the director or any other person, shall be determined by the Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance. |
| (2) |
Fees or amounts referred to in subsection (1)— |
| (a) |
which have been determined and are mentioned in any regulation or direction made or given under this Act, shall within 60 days after having become recoverable; and |
| (b) |
which have been determined but are not so mentioned, or which have been fixed as contemplated in subsection (1), shall within 60 days after the debtor concerned has in the prescribed manner been notified of the amount due, |
be paid in the prescribed manner.
| (3) |
Interest, calculated at the standard interest rate determined in terms of section 26(1) of the Exchequer and Audit Act, 1975 (Act No. 66 of 1975), shall, as from the date of expiry of the applicable period of 60 days referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (2), be payable in respect of fees or amounts due. |
| (a) |
Any amount which becomes payable in terms of section 18(5)(a) or (6), or as a result of the erection by the director of a permanent structure under a control measure, shall, for the purposes of the recovery thereof, be deemed to be assistance referred to in section 10 (1) of the Agricultural Credit Act, 1966 (Act No. 28 of 1966), which has been rendered to the owner or manager of the land on which the fence or structure concerned was erected, on condition that— |
| (i) |
the amount due shall be repayable within 60 days of the date on which the director notified in writing the owner or manager concerned of such amount. in which case no interest shall be payable on that amount; and |
| (ii) |
if such amount is not so paid, interest calculated from the date of such notice and at the applicable rate referred to in section 15 of the said Act, shall be payable on that amount. |
| (b) |
Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a)(i), the Minister may, after consideration of representations by an owner or manager referred to in that paragraph which are submitted within 60 days of the date of a notice referred to therein, on such conditions or stipulations as the Minister deems expedient, including a condition that a mortgage bond contemplated in section 34 of the Agricultural Credit Act, 1966, be registered mutatis mutandis in accordance with that section in favour of the State, approve that— |
| (i) |
payment of the amount due may be postponed for a specified period; or |
| (ii) |
the amount due may be paid in specified instalments at specified times. |
| (c) |
Whenever a condition is imposed under paragraph (b) that land be mortgaged in favour of the State as security or partial security for an amount due referred to in that paragraph, the provisions of section 35 of the Agricultural Credit Act, 1966, shall mutatis mutandis apply in respect of the registration of such mortgage bond. |
Statistics Act, 1999
