emergency services levy

Land use factors

The factor applied to the relevant land use category for the emergency services levy.

It is used to ensure that land with a greater chance of needing for an emergency service contributes more to the emergency services fund than land that doesn’t have the same risk attached to it (for example: land used for industrial purposes has a far greater risk attached to it than vacant land does).

Land use categories

The following land use categories apply for the emergency services levy:

  • Residential (RE)
  • Commercial (CO)
  • Industrial (IN)
  • Rural (primary production land) (RU)
  • Vacant land (VA)
  • Special community use (CU)
  • Other (OT)

Special community use includes land used for the following purposes:

  • Aboriginal community
  • Boy scouts
  • Cemeteries
  • Charitable organisations
  • Churches
  • Community hospital
  • Convalescent and rest homes
  • Girl guides
  • Health centre
  • Hospital
  • Institutional residential
  • Institutional residential accommodation NEC
  • MBHA Clinics
  • Medical and health
  • Mental hospital
  • Nursing homes
  • Old folk's homes
  • Orphan's accommodation
  • Places of assembly
  • Private hospital
  • Public conveniences and public utilities NEC
  • Public halls
  • Religious quarters - monasteries
  • Retired and aged accommodation
  • Sanatoria
  • Seminaries
  • Social services and welfare provision
  • Social welfare
  • Social welfare NEC
  • YMCA and YWCA facilities
  • Youth centres

NEC means 'not elsewhere classified'.