Rating Obligations for Crown Land Subject to Mining Tenements
Local Government Amendment (Rating of Certain Mining Licences) Bill 2025
1st House
2nd House
Law
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Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
Crown land is rateable if it is subject to a mining tenement; this excludes miscellaneous licences or small prospecting licences
Crown land held under a miscellaneous licence or small prospecting licence is not rateable
Local governments must cancel rates and liabilities for licence land charged between 1 July 2017 and 1 July 2025
Local governments must refund any payments made for those cancelled rates within 28 days
Local governments cannot reassess rates or issue payment notices for licence land for the affected years
Past actions taken on the basis that licence land was not rateable are confirmed as lawful
People holding mining tenements or petroleum and geothermal energy permits are now classified as owners