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Emergency Services Funding (Declaration of Levy and Area
and Land Use Factors) Notice 2008
under section 10 of the Emergency Services Funding Act 1998
This notice may be cited as the Emergency Services Funding (Declaration
of Levy and Area and Land Use Factors) Notice 2008.
This notice comes into operation on the day on which it is made.
In this notice—
Act means the Emergency Services Funding
Act 1998.
The levy under Part 3 Division 1 of the Act for the 2008/2009
financial year comprises—
(a) an amount of 0.1171 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.
The area factors for each of the emergency services areas for the 2008/2009
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 2008/2009 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.
The relevant day for the purposes of section 8 of the Act in respect
of the 2008/2009 financial year is 30 June 2008.
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 $173.5 million needs to be raised by means of the levy under
Part 3 Division 1 of the Act to fund emergency services in the
2008/2009 financial year, of which $81.8 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
2008/2009 financial year, excluding expenditure carried over from previous
years, consistent with the 2008/2009 budget; and
(B) the shortfall between projected 2008/2009 emergency services
expenditure and projected 2008/2009 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 19 June 2008
T&F08/019CS
[Published in the Gazette on 19 June 2008 at page 2375]