What is a financial settlement offset
23 What is a financial settlement offset
A financial settlement offset is a payment, in relation to delivering an offset condition imposed on an authority, by the authority holder to the department or a local government of an amount required by the administering agency that granted the authority.
The amount of the payment is—
if the administering agency is a local government—an amount up to the amount determined by the local government in accordance with the environmental offsets policy; or
for any other administering agency—an amount determined by the administering agency in accordance with the environmental offsets policy.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
The statute text is free to read above. View subscription options to unlock the case-law research tools for each provision.