Melbourne Strategic Assessment (Environment Mitigation Levy) Act 2020

On receiving an application under section 26, the Secretary may approve or refuse to approve the staged payment of the levy by the person who applied for it.

If the Secretary approves the staged payment of the levy, the Secretary—

must make the approval subject to the conditions set out in subsection (3); and

may make the approval subject to any other conditions that the Secretary considers appropriate.

For the purposes of subsection (2)(a), the conditions are—

the levy must be paid in stages in accordance with this Division and the conditions to which the approval is subject; and

in the case of an approval relating to a plan of subdivision, each stage for payment must relate to a specified part of the land that is to be subdivided; and

the payment for each stage must be paid by a specified date, a date on which a specified event occurs or a date that relates to the occurrence of a specified event (the due date); and

there must be a final date specified for the payment of the whole of the levy; and

the whole of the levy must be paid on or before the final date specified under paragraph (d); and

if there is a failure to make a payment for any stage by the due date for that stage, the whole of the levy for which the person is liable becomes payable on the day after the due date.