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Environment Protection (Distribution of Landfill Levy) Amendment Regulations 2012

S.R. No. 52/2012

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1Objective

2Authorising provisions

3Commencement

4Principal Regulations

5Revocation of regulations 7 and 8

6New regulation 9A inserted

9ADistribution of landfill levy—from 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013

7Substitution of regulation 10

10Distribution of landfill levy—from 1 October 2013

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STATUTORY RULES 2012

S.R. No. 52/2012

Environment Protection Act 1970

Environment Protection (Distribution of Landfill Levy) Amendment Regulations 2012

The Lieutenant-Governor as the Governor's deputy with the advice of the Executive Council makes the following Regulations:

Dated: 18 June 2012

Responsible Minister:

RYAN SMITH
Minister for Environment and Climate Change

YVETTE CARISBROOKE

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council

1Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to amend the Environment Protection (Distribution of Landfill Levy) Regulations 2010 to—

(a)provide a mechanism for payments from the general landfill levy account to be made to waste management groups, the Environment Protection Authority, Sustainability Victoria and the Climate Communities Fund Account in respect of each quarter in the period of 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013;

(b)provide a mechanism for payments from the general landfill levy account in respect of each quarter from 1 October 2013.

2Authorising provisions

These Regulations are made under sections 70 and 71 of the Environment Protection Act 1970.

3Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on 1 August 2012.

4Principal Regulations

In these Regulations, the Environment Protection (Distribution of Landfill Levy) Regulations 2010[1] are called the Principal Regulations.

5Revocation of regulations 7 and 8

Regulations 7 and 8 of the Principal Regulations are revoked.

6New regulation 9A inserted

After regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations insert—

9ADistribution of landfill levy—from 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013"

(1)In respect of each quarter in the period of 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013, the Authority must distribute money standing to the credit of the general landfill levy account as at the end of the previous quarter in the following way—

(a)it must pay the Metropolitan Waste Management Group one quarter of $3 808 981;

(b)it must pay a regional waste management group specified in column 1 of the following table, one quarter of the amount specified in column 2 of the table opposite the name of the group;

(c)it must pay Sustainability Victoria one quarter of $24 075 636;

(d)it must pay itself one quarter of $30 739 137;

(e)it must transfer any remaining amount into the Climate Communities Fund Account.

(2)The Authority must make all distributions required under this regulation by the 15th day of the quarter.

Note

The Minister, in certain circumstances, may direct the Authority to withhold any payment the Authority is required to make to a regional waste management group under this regulation—see section 50LA(2) of the Act.

Table

Column 1	Column 2
Barwon	$340 626
Calder	$295 096
Central Murray	$277 583
Wimmera Mallee	$225 856
Greater Gippsland	$430 650
Goulburn Valley	$331 618
Grampians	$277 583
Highlands	$331 284
Mildura	$217 000
Mornington Peninsula	$229 266
North Eastern	$318 974
South Western	$295 096

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7Substitution of regulation 10

For regulation 10 of the Principal Regulations substitute—

10Distribution of landfill levy—from 1 October 2013"

(1)From 1 October 2013, at the start of each quarter, the Authority must transfer into the Climate Communities Fund Account all money standing to the credit of the general landfill levy account as at the end of the previous quarter.

(2)The Authority must make the transfer required under this regulation by the 15th day of the quarter.".

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[1] Reg. 4: S.R. No. 98/2010 as amended by S.R. No. 45/2011.