Forestry Regulation 2024

This section applies if—

a person has been granted a commercial activity permit as part of a single integrated permission (a new permit); and

immediately before the grant of the new permit, the person held a commercial activity permit.

The chief executive may, on the chief executive’s own initiative or on application, refund all or part of a fee paid for the new permit if the chief executive considers the refund is appropriate having regard to—

the extent to which the activities authorised under the new permit are the same, or substantially the same, as the activities authorised under the commercial activity permit held by the person immediately before the grant of the new permit; and

any other relevant matter.

The chief executive may refund the fee in the way the chief executive considers appropriate.Examples of ways chief executive may refund fee—

If a person applies to the chief executive for a refund, the chief executive may deduct the refund processing fee from the amount refunded.

In this section—refund processing fee, for an application for a refund, means the fee—

decided by the chief executive, being not more than the reasonable cost of—

considering the application; and

refunding the fee or part of the fee to the applicant; and

published on the department’s website.