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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Miscellaneous provisions - Cost recovery

106: Methods of cost recovery

You could also call this:

“How the government gets paid back for their work”

The government can get money back for the work they do in a few different ways. They might ask you to pay a set amount of money. Sometimes, they might guess how much it will cost and ask you to pay that amount before they do the work. If they guess wrong, they might give you some money back or ask you to pay a bit more later. They can also use something called levies to get money.

If you pay money before the work is done, the government keeps any extra money that comes from interest. They use this extra money to help pay for the costs of doing the work.

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Part 2 Fast-track approvals process
Miscellaneous provisions: Cost recovery

106Methods of cost recovery

  1. The methods by which costs may be recovered are any 1 of, or any combination of 1 or more of, the following:

  2. fixed fees or charges:
    1. estimated fees or charges, or fees or charges based on estimated costs, paid before the performance of the function, duty, or power, followed by reconciliation and 1 or more further payments or refunds:
      1. levies.

        1. In the case of fees or charges described in subsection (1)(b), all interest accruing from the fee or charge in the period after payment is retained by the EPA and applied to the costs that may be recovered under section 104.