Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Act 2025

Bank’s power to prescribe levies

40. (1) The Bank may, with the prior consent of the Minister, make regulations prescribing levies to be paid by ATM deployers and CIT providers.

(2) In particular, regulations under subsection (1) may provide for any of the following matters:

(a) the amounts of specified kinds of levies;

(b) the ATM deployers and CIT providers, or classes of ATM deployers and CIT providers, who are required to pay specified kinds of levies;

(c) the periods for which, or the dates by which, specified kinds of levies are to be paid to the Bank;

(d) penalties payable by an ATM deployer or CIT provider who does not pay a levy on time;

(e) the keeping of records, and the making of returns to the Bank, by ATM deployers and CIT providers in respect of levies;

(f) the collection and recovery of levies.

(3) The Bank may, by proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, recover as a debt an amount of levy payable under regulations in force under this section.

(4) The Bank may refund the whole or a part of a levy paid or payable under regulations in force under this section.

(5) In this section, “levy” does not include a fee.