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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Miscellaneous provisions - Cost recovery

106: Methods of cost recovery

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"How costs are paid back to the EPA"

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You can recover costs in several ways. You can use fixed fees or charges. You can also use estimated fees or charges that you pay before something is done, and then sort out the final cost later. You can recover costs through levies too. If you pay fees, charges, or levies, any interest earned after payment is kept by the EPA. This interest is used to cover costs that can be recovered under section 104 or met under section 109(1)(a) by imposing a levy.

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Part 2Fast-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. Interest accruing from the fees, charges, and levies described in subsection (1) in the period after payment is retained by the EPA and applied to any 1 or more of the costs that may be—

        2. recovered under section 104:
          1. met under section 109(1)(a) by the imposition of a levy.

            Notes
            • Section 106(2): replaced, on , by section 48 of the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 78).