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21Application fee—the Act, s 53
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#### 21 Application fee—the Act, s 53
21 Application fee—the Act, s 53
> > (1) For the Act, section 53(2)(c), an application for the issue of a licence specified in the table to this subsection must be accompanied by a fee (the application fee) calculated by multiplying—
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> > > (a) the amount of an application fee unit for the financial year in which the application is made, and
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> > > (b) the number of application fee units specified for the licence in the table.
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> > | Licence | Number of application fee units |
> > | Licence for premises-based scheduled activities |
> > | | 37 |
> > | | 88 |
> > | | 88 |
> > | | 178 |
> > | | 223 |
> > | | 227 |
> > | | 37 |
> > | Licence for scheduled activities not premises-based |
> > | | 41 |
> > | | 4 |
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> > (2) The amount of an application fee unit for a financial year is the same as the amount of an administrative fee unit for the financial year.
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> > (3) Development carried out on land in an Activation Precinct that would be State significant development or State significant infrastructure if it were carried out on land outside an Activation Precinct is taken, for the purposes of this section, to be State significant development or State significant infrastructure.
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> > (4) A fee paid to the EPA as an approval body for integrated development under the [Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1979-203) for development requiring an environment protection licence must be deducted from the application fee for the licence.
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> > (5) In this section—
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> > critical State significant infrastructure has the same meaning as in the [Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1979-203), Division 5.2.
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> > development consent has the same meaning as in the [Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1979-203).
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> > Part 3A concept approval means an approval under the former [Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1979-203), Part 3A for a concept plan for a project if the Minister determined under that Act, section 75P(1)(c) that no further environmental assessment is required for the project.
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> > State significant development has the same meaning as in the [Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1979-203).
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> > State significant infrastructure has the same meaning as in the [Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1979-203) and is taken to include reference to a Part 3A concept approval unless the project to which the Part 3A concept approval applies has been declared to be critical State significant infrastructure.