Environment Protection Act 2017

The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action must establish and maintain an account to be known as the Municipal and Industrial Waste Levy Trust Account.

The Authority must credit to the Municipal and Industrial Waste Levy Trust Account any amount standing to the credit of the General Waste Levy Account at the end of each quarter by the 15th day of the following quarter.

There may be paid out of the Municipal and Industrial Waste Levy Trust Account an amount to one or more of the following—

the Authority;

Sustainability Victoria;

a public entity or other body if—

that body is established for a public purpose; and

the amount is paid out for the purposes of environmental assessment, environmental protection, environmental restoration or environmental improvement.

Any amount paid out under subsection (3) must be paid out in accordance with a determination made under subsection (5).

The Minister must make a determination specifying—

an amount to be paid to one or more of the person or bodies referred to in subsection (3) or the methods by which the amount to be paid is to be calculated; and

the times at which the amount must be paid; and

the period for which the determination applies.

This section does not affect the operation of section 445(2).