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Melbourne Strategic Assessment (Environment Mitigation Levy) Act 2020.

Country/Territory
Australia
Territorial subdivision
Victoria
Document type
Legislation
Date
2020 (2020)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Environment gen., Land & soil
Keyword
Environmental fees/charges Royalties/fees Liability/compensation Institution Special fund Data collection/reporting Monitoring Access-to-information Access-to-justice Sustainable development Public land Land-use planning Land valuation Urban land
Geographical area
Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific
Abstract

The purpose of this Act is to impose a levy to fund measures to mitigate impacts on the environment caused by the development of land in Melbourne's growth corridors. The Act is organized in 8 Parts. Part 2 provides that the Secretary, by instrument, may declare an area of land within the urban growth area to be the levy area or to be a conservation area for the purposes of this Act. Moreover the Part requires the Secretary to establish and maintain in the Department a computer system so called the the environment mitigation information system. Part 3 disciplines the environment mitigation levy in relation to the occurrence of a series of events specified in column 2 of an item in the Table (that is not an excluded event) in respect of the relevant land specified in column 3 of that item in the Table opposite that event. It establishes the amount of the levy; who is the person liable to pay and when, situations when the person is entitled to a reduction of environment mitigation levy through land transfer agreements; matters to be included in the land transfer agreement; notification of certain levy events on Crown land.

Full text
English
Website
www.legislation.vic.gov.au