WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 479
Annual levy for underground water management
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 479
Annual levy for underground water management
479 Annual levy for underground water management
(1) The performance of the office’s functions are to be funded by an annual
levy payable by each resource tenure holder.
(2) The levy must be worked out
in the way prescribed under a regulation.
(3) The way the levy is worked out
must be transparent and likely to be readily understood by resource tenure
holders.
(4) The levy must be—
(a) based on the amount needed to recover
the estimated costs to the office of performing its functions under chapter 3
in a financial year; and
(b) apportioned, where practicable, between resource
tenure holders or classes of holders according to the cost to the office of
performing functions specific to the holders or class of holders.
(5) For
subsection (4) (a) , the office’s estimated costs must be—
(a) prepared by
the office; and
(b) approved by the Minister.
(6) When preparing the
office’s estimated costs, the office may consult with a relevant advisory
body.
(7) The office must give notice about the levy, and any changes to the
levy, to each resource tenure holder.
(8) If a person (the
"first person" ) who is a resource tenure holder has nominated or specified
another person (the
"nominated person" ) for service under a relevant provision, the notice is
taken to have been given to the first person if it is given to the
nominated person.
(9) In this section—
"relevant provision" means—
(a) for a resource tenure holder who is the
holder of a mineral development licence—the Mineral Resources Act , section
183 (1) (c) ; or
(b) for a resource tenure holder who is the holder of a
mining lease—the Mineral Resources Act , section 245 (1) (c) ; or