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Emergency Services Funding (Declaration of Levy and Area
and Land Use Factors) Notice 2007
under section 10 of the Emergency Services Funding Act 1998
1—Short title
This notice may be cited as the Emergency Services Funding (Declaration
of Levy and Area and Land Use Factors) Notice 2007.
2—Commencement
This notice comes into operation on the day on which it is made.
3—Interpretation
In this notice—
Act means the Emergency Services Funding
Act 1998.
4—Declaration of levy
The levy under Part 3 Division 1 of the Act for the 2007/2008
financial year comprises—
(a) an amount of 0.1270 cents in respect of each dollar of the value of
land subject to assessment; and
(b) a fixed charge of $50 for each piece, section or aggregation of
contiguous or non-contiguous land subject to separate assessment.
5—Declaration of area factors
The area factors for each of the emergency services areas for the 2007/2008
financial year are as follows:
(a) Regional area 1—0.8;
(b) Regional area 2—0.5;
(c) Regional area 3—0.2;
(d) Regional area 4—1.0.
6—Declaration of land use
factors
The land use factors for each of the land uses referred to in
section 8(1) of the Act for the 2007/2008 financial year are as
follows:
(a) commercial—1.0;
(b) industrial—1.5;
(c) residential—0.4;
(d) rural—0.3;
(e) all other uses—0.5.
7—Relevant day
The relevant day for the purposes of section 8 of the Act in respect
of the 2007/2008 financial year is 30 June 2007.
8—Required statement of amount and description of
method used to determine amount
The following information is provided in accordance with section 10(6)
of the Act:
(a) the Minister has
determined under section 10(4)(a) of the Act that $164.0 million needs
to be raised by means of the levy under Part 3 Division 1 of the Act
to fund emergency services in the 2007/2008 financial year, of which
$73.8 million (net of remissions) needs to be raised from private and local
government property ownerships;
(b) the method used for determining the amount referred to in
paragraph (a) is as follows:
(i) a strategic and business planning process was undertaken to establish
a strategic context for assessing amounts to be expended for the kinds of
emergency services and other purposes referred to in section 28(4) of the
Act;
(ii) the amount to be raised from the levy under Part 3
Division 1 of the Act was determined on the basis of—
(A) forward estimates of expenditure for emergency services during the
2007/2008 financial year, excluding expenditure carried over from previous
years, consistent with the 2007/2008 budget; and
(B) the shortfall between projected 2007/2008 emergency services
expenditure and projected 2007/2008 revenue from the levy under Part 3
Division 2 of the Act and non-levy revenue (such as interest earnings) paid
into the Community Emergency Services Fund.
Made by the Governor
on the recommendation of the Treasurer and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council
on 21 June 2007
T&F07/031CS
[Published in the Gazette on 21 June 2007 at page 2682]