Fire and Emergency Services (Levy Groups) Amendment Regulation (No. 2) 2019 (Qld)

1   Short title

This regulation may be cited as the Fire and Emergency Services (Levy Groups) Amendment Regulation (No. 2) 2019.

2   Commencement

Section 4 commences on 1 July 2020.

3   Regulation amended

This regulation amends the Fire and Emergency Services Regulation 2011.

4   Amendment of s 9 (Categories of prescribed properties assigned to levy groups—Act, s 108(3))

Section 9—
insert—

(3)For deciding the category that applies to a prescribed property, a brewery or distillery with a gross floor area of not more than 15,000m² is taken to be commercial premises.

5   Amendment of pt 5, hdg (Transitional provisions)

Part 5, heading, after ‘Transitional’—
insert—

and declaratory

6   Insertion of new pt 5, div 3

After section 19—
insert—

Division 3 Declaratory and transitional provisions for Fire and Emergency Services (Levy Groups) Amendment Regulation (No. 2) 2019

20   Declaration about application of sch 2 for financial year ending 30 June 2020

It is declared that schedule 2, as in force on the commencement, applies in relation to the determination of the annual contributions payable in respect of prescribed properties for the financial year ending 30 June 2020.

21   Special provision for particular breweries and distilleries

(1)This section applies to a prescribed property if, before the commencement, a local government gave the owner of the property a levy notice under section 112(2) of the Act stating an annual contribution determined by reference to a former item.

(2)For determining the annual contribution payable for the financial year ending 30 June 2020 in respect of the prescribed property, the category applying to the property is the category applying to the property under schedule 2 as in force on the commencement.

(3)However, if the levy group in schedule 2 for the category is higher than the levy group applying to the former item, the levy group is taken to be levy group 7.

(4)In this section—

former item means schedule 2, item 7.01 or 7.02 as inserted by the Fire and Emergency Services (Levy Groups) Amendment Regulation 2019.

7   Amendment of sch 2 (Annual contributions of owners of prescribed properties)

(1)Schedule 2, items 7.01 and 7.02—
omit.

(2)Schedule 2, items 7.03 to 7.11—
renumber as items 7.01 to 7.09.