Victorian Consolidated Legislation

CONGESTION LEVY ACT 2005

No. 74 of 2005
Version incorporating amendments as at 12 December 2007

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Section Page

   PART 1-PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purpose
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   4.      What is a long stay parking space?
   5.      Determining the number of parking spaces on premises
   6.      Taxation Administration Act 1997.
   7.      Act binds the Crown

   PART 2-IMPOSITION OF LEVY

   8.      Levy imposed
   9.      Who is liable for levy?
   10.     Amount of levy
   11.     CPI adjusted levy
   12.     Notice of CPI adjusted levy

   PART 3-ASSESSMENT OF LEVY

   13.     How is levy assessed?
   14.     Statutory ratio for public car parks
   15.     Variation of statutory ratio

   PART 4-EXEMPTIONS AND CONCESSIONS

           Division 1-Exempt parking spaces

   16.     Residential parking
   17.     Parking for visitors and loading bays
   18.     Parking spaces owned by councils, charities etc.
   18A.    Parking spaces owned by consulates, consular officers etc.
   19.     Parking for emergency vehicles
   20.     Parking for people attending special events
   21.     Disabled parking
   22.     Parking for shift workers
   23.     Garaging of fleet vehicles and bus layovers
   24.     Car sales displays and car service spaces

           Division 2-Concessions

   25.     Part year concession for parking spaces in a private car park
   26.     Part year concession for parking spaces in a public car park

   PART 5-REGISTRATION AND RETURNS

           Division 1-Registration

   27.     Requirement for registration-private car parks
   28.     Requirement for registration-public car parks
   29.     Registration
   30.     Requirement to notify changes

           Division 2-Returns

   31.     Annual return

   PART 6-GENERAL

   32.     Levy is a charge on land
   33.     Registration of charge
   33A.    Indemnity
   34.     Private car parks-obligation of lessees, licensees etc.
   35.     Regulations

   PART 7-AMENDMENT OF TAXATION ADMINISTRATION ACT 1997.

   36.     Levy comes under the Act
   37.     Supreme Court-limitation of jurisdiction

   PART 8-TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

   38.     State Taxation and Accident Compensation Acts
           Amendment Act 2007-indemnity
   39.     State Taxation and Accident Compensation Acts
           Amendment Act 2007-agreement to use leviable parking
           space
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           SCHEDULE 1-Levy Area
           SCHEDULE 2-Assessment of Levy for 2006.
           1. Application of Schedule 2. Levy assessed on 2006 parking spaces
           3. Statutory ratio for public car parks
           4. Variation of statutory ratio
           5. Concessions
           6. Estimates
           7. Final adjustment of 2006 levy
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details