• About Mackay Airport
  • Mackay Airport Profile
  • Airport History
  • Conditions of Use
    1. About these Standard Conditions and Mackay Airport
    2. Our Service Charter and Service Performance
    3. Your use of Mackay Airport
    4. Information you must give us
    5. Parking and aircraft removal
    6. Mackay Airport Allocation Rules
    7. Mackay Airport security
    8. Insurance
    9. Interruptions to Airport Services
    10. Aviation Charges
    11. Things that can change Aviation Charges
    12. Government Mandated Costs and Government Mandated Charges
    13. Payment of Aviation Charges and Government Mandated Charges
    14. Credit accounts for Aviation Charges and Government Mandated Charges
    15. Indemnities and release
    16. Statistical information
    17. Acts and regulations
    18. GST (Goods and Services Tax)
    19. Privacy and data protection
    20. Confidential Information
    21. Dispute resolution
    22. Notices
    23. Definitions

Mackay Airport Conditions of Use

14 Credit accounts for Aviation Charges and Government Mandated Charges

14.1 Application for credit account

You may apply for a credit account with us for Aviation Charges and Government Mandated Charges by completing and submitting a Credit Application. We are not obliged to approve your Credit Application. We may suspend your credit account at any time by giving you 7 days notice.

14.2 Operation of credit account

If we approve your Credit Application we will notify you and establish a credit account for you. If you have a credit account with us, you must pay our Aviation Charges and Government Mandated Charges on the following basis:

• (a) we will give you monthly tax invoices; and
• (b) you must pay the tax invoices within 28 days after the end of the month to which the tax invoice relates; and
• (c) your payments must be by:
• • i. direct deposit to Our Bank Account (we will supply account details on request); or
  • ii. posting a cheque to our postal address; or
  • iii. paying by cheque or cash at our office; or

14.3 Late payment of Aviation Charges and Government Mandated Charges

If you do not pay our tax invoices when due then we may charge you interest on the following basis:

• (a) interest, and if appropriate penalty interest is calculated payable at the Interest Rate on daily balances from the due date for payment; and
• (b) unpaid interest is capitalised as at the first day of each month.

We will not charge interest on any amount that is the subject of a bona fide dispute under clause 21 until and unless and from such time as that dispute is resolved in accordance with clause 21.

14.4 Bank guarantee

If we do approve a credit account we may impose a condition requiring that you give us an unconditional bank guarantee or performance bond payable on demand for our estimate of the Aviation Charges and Government Mandated Charges you will pay for six months. If we impose this condition on you, we will explain to you the basis for this requirement. Any bank guarantee or performance bond required under this clause 14.4 must be from an institution and on terms satisfactory to us. We may increase the amount of our estimate at any time by giving you 30 days notice, in which case you must increase the bank guarantee or performance bond accordingly. We may also require a bank guarantee or performance bond at any time after we have approved your credit account.

14.5 Replacement or additional bank guarantee

You must give us a replacement or additional bank guarantee or performance bond if:

• (a) we call on the bank guarantee or performance bond already given to us; or
• (b) we increase the amount to be secured by the bank guarantee or performance bond.