Pricing principles
16 Pricing principles
This section fixes principles on the basis of which the Authority is to charge in certain circumstances for goods or services —
that it provides under this Act; or
that any other written law requires to be charged for in accordance with this section.
This section does not apply to the charging of an amount that is fixed by a written law.
Unless subsection (4) or (6) applies or an arrangement described in subsection (7) provides otherwise, charges that the Authority makes for providing goods or services for use for any purpose that involves any commercial benefit being derived are to be designed to provide to the Authority an overall profit representing a fair commercial return after covering the Authority’s total costs related to the goods or services.
A charge that the Authority makes for providing fundamental land information —
to the State or a local government; or
in accordance with an approval under subsection (9),
for use for a purpose that does not involve any commercial benefit being derived, is to be designed to cover the Authority’s costs of extracting the information and providing it.
The cost of extracting and providing fundamental land information, for the purposes of subsection (4) —
includes —
the cost to the Authority of processing a request for information, extracting the information, providing it in the format in which it is extracted, and performing accounting related to the transaction; and
a proportion of the cost of accommodation, equipment, and other overheads required to provide the service;
but
does not include any of the cost of collecting or maintaining the information.
A charge that the Authority makes for providing any goods or services, other than fundamental land information —
to the State or a local government; or
in accordance with an approval under subsection (9),
for use for a purpose that does not involve any commercial benefit being derived, is to be designed to cover the Authority’s total costs related to the goods or services.
The Authority may charge a person for providing any goods or services on a basis that is different from the basis described by the other provisions of this section if the charge is in accordance with an arrangement agreed between the Authority and that person.
A charge under an arrangement agreed under subsection (7) may involve the making of a profit by the Authority.
The Authority may approve of any goods or services being provided at a charge described in subsection (4) or (6), as the case requires, if it is satisfied that the person to whom they are provided —
has functions of a public nature; and
will not use them other than for the purposes of education, research, or activities of a community or regional nature; and
will comply with any conditions on which goods or services are provided at a charge as described.
In this section —
fundamental land information means any land information that the regulations prescribe as fundamental land information for the purposes of subsection (4).
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
). Made under this Act:
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