Section 85 - Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund Act 2012 - Transitional provisions—Fire Services Property Amendment (Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund) Act 2025

85 Transitional provisions—Fire Services Property Amendment (Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund) Act 2025

(1) On and after 1 July 2025—

(a) a reference to the Fire Services Property Levy Act 2012 in any Act (other than the Fire Services Property Amendment (Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund) Act 2025) or in any instrument made under any Act or in any other document is taken to be a reference to the Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund Act 2012 so far as it relates to any period on and after that date, unless the context otherwise requires; and

(b) a reference to the fire services property levy in any Act (other than the Fire Services Property Amendment (Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund) Act 2025) or in any instrument made under any Act or in any other document is taken to be a reference to the emergency services and volunteers funding levy so far as it relates to any period on and after that date, unless the context otherwise requires.

(2) An exemption in force under section 9A immediately before 1 July 2025 is taken, on and after that date, to be an exemption under section 20A.

(3) An application for an exemption under section 9A that had been made but not determined before 1 July 2025 is taken, on and after that date, to be an application made under section 20A and may be determined accordingly.

Pt 6 (Heading) repealed by No. 67/2017 s. 9.

Pt 6 Div. 1 (Heading and ss 85−91) amended by No. 81/2012 s. 114(1), repealed by No. 58/2012 s. 133.

Pt 6 Div. 2 (Heading and ss 92, 93) repealed by No. 58/2012 s. 132(1).

Pt 7
(Heading and ss 94–102) repealed by No. 58/2012 s. 132(2).

Pt 8
(Heading and ss 103–110) amended by No. 81/2012 s. 114(2)(c), repealed by No. 58/2012 s. 132(2).

Pt 9
(Heading and ss 111–130) repealed by No. 58/2012 s. 132(1).

Pt 10 (Heading and ss 131, 132) amended by No. 58/2012 s. 132(1), repealed by No. 58/2012 s. 132(2).

Pt 11 (Heading and ss 133–136) repealed by No. 58/2012 s. 136.

Sch. amended by Nos 34/2014 s. 24, 38/2023 s. 12A, 16/2025 s. 21.

Schedule

AVPCC allocation

Item number Land use classification AVPCC
1 Residential 100−108, 110–199, 729, 742
2 Commercial 200–208, 210−299, 656, 657, 669−672, 674, 675, 684, 687−688, 690, 696, 711, 715, 803−811, 814−816, 818−820, 823, 825, 827−828
3 Industrial 300–301, 303–399, 400–499, 600–612, 615−620, 623, 628−637, 639, 643–644, 647−649, 659, 661−664, 666−667, 673, 676−679, 681−683, 685, 689, 691, 693−694, 697−699
4 Primary Production 500−599
5 Public Benefit 621, 622, 626, 627, 640−642, 686, 700–710, 712−714, 716−728, 730−741, 743–799, 800–802, 812–813, 817, 821–822, 824, 826, 829−899, 900−999
7 Exempt 109, 209, 302, 613−614, 624−625, 638, 645−646, 650−655, 658, 660, 665, 668, 680, 692, 695

An AVPCC that has a decimal place is to be treated as a whole number rounded down to the nearest whole number.

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Endnotes

1 General information

See www.legislation.vic.gov.au for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.

Minister's second reading speech—

Legislative Assembly: 30 August 2012

Legislative Council: 13 September 2012

The long title for the Bill for this Act was "A Bill for an Act to impose a fire services property levy on all land in Victoria unless specifically exempted, to provide for collection agencies to collect the fire services property levy, to provide for the Commissioner of State Revenue to receive the fire services property levy and pay it into the Consolidated Fund, to make consequential amendments to the Country Fire Authority Act 1958, the Essential Services Commission Act 2001, the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Act 1958, the Valuation of Land Act 1960 and the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority Act 1996 and for other purposes."

Constitution Act 1975:

Section 85(5) statement:

Legislative Assembly: 30 August 2012

Legislative Council: 13 September 2012

Absolute majorities:

Legislative Assembly: 13 September 2012

Legislative Council: 11 October 2012

The Fire Services Property Levy Act 2012 was assented to on 16 October 2012 and came into operation as follows:

Sections 1–93, 96, 98, 99, 104, 106, 107, and 111–130 on 17 October 2012: section 2(1); sections 97(3) and 105(2) on 31 December 2012: section 2(2); sections 95, 97(1)(2), 102, 105(1), 108, 131 and 132 on 1 July 2013: section 2(3); sections 133–136 on 31 December 2016: section 2(8); ss 101(2), 110(2) on 1 July 2015: s. 2(7).

The title of this Act was changed from the Fire Services Property Levy Act 2012 to the Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund Act 2012 by section 4 of the Fire Services Property Amendment (Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund) Act 2025, No. 16/2025.

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)

Style changes

Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.

References to ILA s. 39B

Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided section or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subsections or subclauses, the original section or clause becomes subsection or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original section or clause.

Interpretation

As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:

• Headings

All headings included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any heading inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act. This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; sections; clauses; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. See section 36(1A)(2A).

• Examples, diagrams or notes

All examples, diagrams or notes included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Act. See section 36(3A).

• Punctuation

All punctuation included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 forms part of that Act. Any punctuation inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act. See section 36(3B).

• Provision numbers

All provision numbers included in an Act form part of that Act, whether inserted in the Act before, on or after 1 January 2001. Provision numbers include section numbers, subsection numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs. See section 36(3C).

• Location of "legislative items"

A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note. As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of an Act is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision. For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision. See section 36B.

• Other material

Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of an Act.
See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).

2 Table of Amendments

This publication incorporates amendments made to the Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund Act 2012 by Acts and subordinate instruments.

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Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund Act 2012, No. 58/2012

| Assent Date: | 16.10.12 | | Commencement Date: | S. 132 on 1.7.13: s. 2(3); ss 133, 136 on 31.12.16: s. 2(8) | | Note: | S. 132(1) repealed Pt 6 Div. 2 (ss 92, 93), Pt 9 (ss 111–130), Pt 10 Div. 1 (s. 131) on 1.7.14; s. 132(2) repealed Pts 7, 8 (ss 94–110), 10 (s. 132) on 1.7.16; s. 133 repealed Pt 6 Div. 1 (ss 85–91) on 31.12.16; s. 136 repealed Pt 11 (ss 133–136) on 31.12.17 | | Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund Act 2012 |

Fire Services Levy Monitor Act 2012, No. 81/2012

State Tax Laws Amendment (Budget and Other Measures) Act 2013, No. 41/2013

Sale of Land Amendment Act 2014, No. 33/2014

State Taxation Legislation Amendment Act 2014, No. 34/2014

Treasury Legislation and Other Acts Amendment Act 2014, No. 44/2014

Statute Law Revision Act 2015, No. 21/2014

State Taxation and Other Acts Amendment Act 2016, No. 40/2016

State Taxation Acts Further Amendment Act 2017, No. 67/2017

Oaths and Affirmations Act 2018, No. 6/2018

Firefighters' Presumptive Rights Compensation and Fire Services Legislation Amendment (Reform) Act 2019, No. 20 /2019

Local Government Act 2020, No. 9/2020

| Assent Date: | 24.3.20 | | Commencement Date: | S. 390(Sch. 1 items 40.1, 40.2, 40.7(a)) on 6.4.20; s. 390(Sch. 1 items 40.3, 40.5) on 1.5.20: Special Gazette (No. 150) 24.3.20 p. 1; s. 390(Sch. 1 item 40.7(b)) on 24.10.20: s. 2(3)(f); s. 390(Sch. 1 items 40.4, 40.6) on 1.7.21: s. 2(4) | | Current State: | This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund Act 2012 |

Residential Tenancies, Housing and Social Services Regulation Amendment (Administration and Other Matters) Act 2022, No. 40 /2022

State Taxation Acts Amendment Act 2023, No. 18 /2023

State Taxation Acts and Other Acts Amendment Act 2023, No. 38/2023

State Taxation Further Amendment Act 2024, No. 50 /2024

Fire Services Property Amendment (Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund) Act 2025, No. 16/2025

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