32   Fees for services etc

(1)  Where under the provisions of any Act, regulation or other statutory instrument, an authority:

(a)  supplies any service (including any product, commodity or publication), or

(b)  furnishes any information, or

(c)  receives any application for its approval or permission, or

(d)  gives an approval or permission,

      the authority may demand and recover such fees as are prescribed by the regulations or as determined in accordance with the regulations, including as determined by a person specified in the regulations.

(2)  In any such regulation, provisions may be made requiring a deposit or prepayment in respect of any such fee.

(3)  A fee due to an authority under this section is to be paid to the authority by the person to whom, or at whose request, the service, information, approval or permission is supplied, furnished or given, or from whom the application is received, as the case may be.

(4)  Any fee due to an authority under this section may be recovered as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction.

(5)  Nothing in this section authorises any fee contrary to the provisions of any Act, regulation or other statutory instrument.