Digital Services (Levy) Act 2024

Arrangement in relation to collection of levies

5. The Act of 2009 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 22:

“22A. (1) The Commission may enter into an arrangement with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in relation to the collection of a relevant levy.

(2) An arrangement referred to in subsection (1) shall be for the purpose of enabling the Commission or the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to collect the relevant levy from each person obliged to pay it and pay over the relevant levy so collected to the Commission or Competition and Consumer Protection Commission as appropriate.

(3) An arrangement referred to in subsection (1) may provide for the costs associated with the collection and payment of the relevant levy concerned to be met by the Commission or Competition and Consumer Protection Commission as appropriate.

(4) Nothing in this section affects any other power of the Commission to enter into an arrangement for the collection of levies.

(5) In this section, ‘relevant levy’ means a levy payable under—

(a) a levy order, or

(b) a levy order under section 45A of the Digital Services Act 2024 .”.