Contents of infrastructure contributions plans
46GI Contents of infrastructure contributions plans
An infrastructure contributions plan must—
specify the ICP plan area; and
specify the contribution land in the ICP plan area; and
specify any inner public purpose land to be provided under the plan (including any inner public purpose land forming part of each parcel of land in the ICP plan area); and
specify any outer public purpose land to be funded through the plan and the development agency responsible for acquiring that land; and
specify the types of public purposes for which inner public purpose land and outer public purpose land may be used and developed; and
specify the classes of development of land in relation to which an infrastructure contribution is to be imposed under the plan; and
specify, for each class of development, the ICP land contribution percentage; and
specify the parcel contribution percentage for each parcel of land in the ICP plan area; and
specify the land credit amount or land equalisation amount in respect of each parcel of land in the ICP plan area; and
specify the timing and method of adjustment to be applied to the land credit amounts and land equalisation amounts specified in the plan, including by way of indexation or any other method of adjustment; and
S. 46GI(1)(k) substituted by No. 3/2026 s. 218(1)(a).
specify the plan preparation costs and plan administration costs to be funded through the plan; and
S. 46GI(1)(ka) inserted by No. 3/2026 s. 218(1)(a).
specify—
the works, services or facilities and relevant land acquisitions to be funded through the plan; or
the priority categories of works, services or facilities and relevant land acquisitions to be funded through a standard levy and determined at a future date as allowed by a Minister's direction referred to in section 46GJ(2A); and
S. 46GI(1)(kb) inserted by No. 3/2026 s. 218(1)(a).
specify whether a supplementary levy is required; and
set out the staging of the provision of the works, services or facilities or public purpose land specified in the plan; and
S. 46GI(1)(m) substituted by No. 3/2026 s. 218(1)(b).
set out how the works, services or facilities and relevant land acquisitions to be funded through the plan may serve or otherwise support or facilitate the development of land in the ICP plan area; and
relate the need for the provision of public purpose land under the plan to the proposed development of land in the ICP plan area; and
S. 46GI(1)(o) repealed by No. 3/2026 s. 218(1)(c).
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specify a standard levy rate for each class of development of land according to the type of land to be developed; and
specify the method and timing of annual indexation to be applied to a standard levy rate; and
specify the following in relation to any supplementary levy imposed under the plan—
the works, services or facilities to be funded from the supplementary levy;
the amount of the plan preparation costs and the estimated cost of each of the works, services or facilities to be funded from the supplementary levy;
the method and timing of annual indexation to be applied to the estimated cost of each of the works, services or facilities to be funded from the supplementary levy;
the proportion of the total of the costs referred to in subparagraph (ii) to be funded from the supplementary levy; and
specify the supplementary levy rate for each class of development of land according to each type of land to be developed; and
specify a Minister, public authority or municipal council as the entity that is the collecting agency for the purposes of this Part and the plan; and
S. 46GI(1)(u) substituted by No. 3/2026 s. 218(1)(d).
specify a Minister, public authority or municipal council as an entity that is a development agency for the purposes of this Part and the plan and either—
the works, services, facilities, relevant land acquisitions or public purpose land for which the development agency is responsible under the plan; or
the priority categories of works, services or facilities and relevant land acquisitions referred to in paragraph (ka)(ii) for which the development agency is responsible under the plan; and
Note
There may be more than one development agency.
provide for the procedures, including the timing, for the collection of an infrastructure contribution; and
include any other matter required to be included in the plan by a Minister's direction.
S. 46GI(1A) inserted by No. 3/2026 s. 218(2).
Subsection (1)(l) and (m) do not apply where the plan specifies the priority categories of works, services or facilities and relevant land acquisitions under subsection (1)(ka)(ii).
An infrastructure contributions plan may—
provide for different rates for the monetary component of an infrastructure contribution to be provided in respect of different classes of development for a type of land in the ICP plan area; and
provide for a lower rate of standard levy for a class of development of a particular type of land than the rate specified in a Minister's direction if—
the planning authority, the affected landowners, the municipal council of the municipal district in which the land is located and the development agency or agencies specified in the plan agree; or
the Minister consents.
An infrastructure contributions plan may specify the same person to be both the collecting agency and a development agency.
Division 3—Directions of Minister
S. 46GJ substituted by No. 7/2018 s. 10.
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