Members Fees

Huge increase in fees – Cost Recovery in State Government

DR ELIZABETH GIBSON, General Manager of CMPA provides a report on the new fees for lodging a work plan.

The good news is that after successful lobbying by the CMPA the costs to develop the Resource Rights Allocation Management System (commissioned by DSDBI but then abandoned) have been removed from the proposed annual fees (~$3 million). As has been discussed in previous issues of Sand & Stone the fees for lodging a work plan will increase after 1 January 2015 as shown in the extract from Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) (Extractive Industries) Amendment Regulations 2014 given below.

Fee for lodging a work plan

(1) The fee for lodging a work plan with the Department Head under section 77G(1) of the Act on or after 1 January 2015 and before 1 January 2016 for an extractive industry to be carried out under a category of extractive industry work authority or in a category of quarry specified in column 2 of the following Table is the fee specified in the corresponding entry in column 3 of the Table.

SE work plan means a work plan or variation to a work plan for work in respect of which a planning permit is required; EES work plan means a work plan or variation to a work plan for work in respect of which an Environment Effects Statement is prepared under the Environment Effects Act 1978;

The value of fee and penalty units is set by the Treasurer of Victoria for each financial year. The values for the 2014- 15 financial year were gazetted on 15 April 2014 (Victoria Government Gazette) and are as follows: The value of a fee unit is $13.24.

Note: these fees to lodge work plans will approximately double on 1 January 2016 and then approximately triple (on 2015 value) on 1 January 2017 and fees to vary work plans will also increase by similar amounts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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