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The same comparison triggers payments of the Adjustment Amount in opposite directions. Clause 6.1(c) requires the Purchaser to pay the State if the actual amount is a lesser liability than the projected amount; clause 6.1(d) requires the State to pay the Purchaser if the projected amount is a greater liability than the actual amount.
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(c) If the Adjustment Amount represents an amount by which the Actual Net Amount at Completion is a lesser liability than the Projected Net Amount at Completion, then the Purchaser shall pay the Adjustment Amount to the State within 5 Business days after the Adjustment Date.
(d) If the Adjustment Amount represents an amount by which the Projected Net Amount at Completion is a greater liability than the Actual Net Amount at Completion, then the State shall pay the Adjustment Amount to the Purchaser within 5 Business days after the Adjustment Day.
For a receiver’s remuneration application, Form 16 says an objector must give notice within 21 days after that person is served. Rule 9.1(3) permits an eligible person to give notice within 21 days after the last service of the documents. If that person was served before someone else, the form states an earlier deadline than the rule allows.
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If you object to my application, you must, within 21 days after being served
with this notice, serve on me a notice of objection stating the grounds of
objection to the remuneration claimed.
Within 21 days after the last service of the documents mentioned in
subrule (2), any creditor or contributory, or any person mentioned in
paragraph (2) (c), (d) or (e), may give to the receiver a notice of
objection to the remuneration claimed, stating the grounds of
objection.
A required detention and search can lack the grounds required by the section under which they must occur.
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suspects, on reasonable grounds, that
an instrument, article, equipment, device or thing has been or may
be used in connection with an offence in a casino, whether or not a
person has been detained under section 28
Where it appears that property specified in subsection (1) cannot be
seized under that subsection without a search of a person, the
person shall be detained under section 28 and the search carried
out by a member of the Police Force under that section.
A member of the Police Force may in a casino detain in a suitable
place for a reasonable time a person who has or who is suspected,
on reasonable grounds, to have contravened or attempted to
contravene this or any other Act.
For a final report triggered by cancellation for a contravention of section 95(1) of the Act, the specified late-lodgment period can end before it starts.
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If the title holder does not pay the rent or administration fee as
required under subregulation (5), the Minister may take action
under section 105(3) of the Act for a contravention of section 95(1)
of the Act.
For section 94(2)(e)(i) of the Act, the holder of an EL, ELR or ML
must give the Minister the final report within 60 days after the
mineral title has ceased to be in force for all or part of the title area.
The late lodgment period for an annual report, expenditure report or final
report is the period that starts on the day on the day after the reporting day
and ends on the earliest of the following:
(a) the day on which the person gives the report to the Minister;
(b) the day on which the Minister
The review provisions refer to an application under a section that does not provide for making one.
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that is the subject of an application under
section 119 ceases to have effect:
A notice given under this Division must specify:
A person to whom a notice is given under Division 3 may apply to
the Supreme Court to review the declaration or requirement to
dispose of voting shares the subject of the notice.
Overlapping packaged and bulk definitions prescribe different quantity measures for the same non-liquid goods.
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***bulk***, in relation to dangerous goods, means any quantity of dangerous goods that is—
(a) in a container with a capacity exceeding 500 L or a net mass of more than 500 kg; or
***packaged dangerous goods*** means dangerous goods or C1 combustible liquids that are in a container with a net capacity of not more than 500 L or a net mass of not more than 500 kg;
(a) non-liquid dangerous goods (other than UN Class 2 dangerous goods)—the quantity is to be determined by the net mass in kilograms of the goods in the container;
(b) liquid dangerous goods (other than UN Class 2 dangerous goods)—the quantity is to be determined by the net capacity of the容器;
(c)
On a path where ceasing to hold trust money coincides with ceasing to receive it, the required notice cannot provide advance notice after the cessation.
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A law practice that holds trust money must give the Law Society at
least 14 days' written notice of its intention:
(c) to cease to practise in such a way as to receive trust money.
Within 14 days of ceasing to hold trust money, a law practice that
holds trust money must give the Society:
(a) written notice of that fact; and
(b) if the practice has not given a notice under subregulation (1)
within the previous 28 days, a notice that complies with that
subregulation.
An unlimited accredited environmental authorisation cannot take effect through the stated fee pathway because no applicable annual fee liability is created for it.
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for a standard environmental authorisation or an accredited environmental authorisation—
(i) an unlimited period; or
if the annual fee under section 53 for the first year of the authorisation is payable as a lump sum—the fee is paid;
The holder of a standard environmental authorisation granted for an unlimited period is liable to pay an annual fee for each year or part of a year that the authorisation is in effect.
For an interest that is former Secretary DIIRD property, both provisions deem different bodies to be its registered proprietor from the commencement day.
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If, immediately before the commencement day the Secretary DIIRD body corporate is, in relation to former Secretary DIIRD property, the registered proprietor of an interest in land under the **Transfer of Land Act 1958**, then on and after the commencement day—
(a) the Secretary, Project Development is taken to be the registered proprietor of that interest in land;
(a) the Head, Transport for Victoria is taken to be the registered proprietor of that interest in land;
The identity-card duty refers to people appointed under a subsection that does not appoint anyone.
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a person appointed by the director-general;
A territory service authorised person must exercise the person’s
functions under this part in accordance with the conditions of
appointment (if any) and any direction given to the person by the
appointer.
The director-general must give each territory service authorised
person appointed under section 242 (2) an identity card stating the
person’s name and that the person is a territory service authorised
person.
For people served under section 42A(1)(f) or (2A), the stated period for comments begins only when compulsory acquisition occurs.
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within 2 months after the date of
publication of the notice of acquisition
The Minister must not compulsorily acquire land in relation to which
this Part applies unless the Minister has taken into account the
comments (if any) lodged in accordance with section 42C.
by compulsory
acquisition by causing a notice declaring the land to be
acquired to be published in the Gazette.
For a provisional liquidator’s remuneration application, Form 16 requires an objector’s notice within 21 days after service on that person; rule 9.3(4) permits notice within 21 days after the last service of the documents. Earlier-served eligible objectors are given conflicting deadlines.
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If you object to my application, you must, within 21 days after being served
with this notice, serve on me a notice of objection stating the grounds of
objection to the remuneration claimed.
Within 21 days after the last service of the documents mentioned in
subrule (3), the liquidator, or any creditor or contributory, may give
to the provisional liquidator a notice of objection to the remuneration
claimed, stating the grounds of objection.
For a liquidator’s remuneration application, Form 16 states a 21-day objection deadline running from service on the objector, while rule 9.4(4) permits objection within 21 days after the last service of the documents. The periods differ if the objector was served before the last recipient.
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If you object to my application, you must, within 21 days after being served
with this notice, serve on me a notice of objection stating the grounds of
objection to the remuneration claimed.
Within 21 days after the last service of the documents mentioned in
subrule (3), any creditor or contributory may give to the liquidator a
notice of objection to the remuneration claimed, stating the grounds
of objection.
For a special manager’s remuneration application, Form 16 states that an objector must give notice within 21 days after being served; rule 9.5(4) permits an eligible objector to give notice within 21 days after the last service of the documents. The form cuts short the rule’s period for someone served earlier.
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If you object to my application, you must, within 21 days after being served
with this notice, serve on me a notice of objection stating the grounds of
objection to the remuneration claimed.
Within 21 days after the last service of the documents mentioned in
subrule (3), the liquidator, or any creditor or contributory, may give
to the special manager a notice of objection to the remuneration
claimed, stating the grounds of objection.
Ceasing to hold trust money can trigger a requirement to notify an intention to cease an activity even when the practice has no such intention.
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A law practice that holds trust money must give the Law Society at
least 14 days' written notice of its intention:
(a) to cease to exist as a law practice; or
(b) to cease to engage in legal practice in this jurisdiction; or
(c) to cease to practise in such a way as to receive trust money.
Within 14 days of ceasing to hold trust money, a law practice that
holds trust money must give the Society:
(a) written notice of that fact; and
(b) if the practice has not given a notice under subregulation (1)
within the previous 28 days, a notice that complies with that
subregulation.
These paragraphs refer to assessment documents under section 91D, but section 91D concerns remediation and creates no assessment under that section.
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order the appropriate person to remediate the land;
a report of the outcome of an assessment under
section 91D (1);
that the person make progress reports to the authority on the remediation;