New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMUNITY LAND DEVELOPMENT ACT 1989 - SECT 4

4 Object and application of Act

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the object of this Act is to facilitate the subdivision of land into parcels for separate development or disposition:

(a) with an interest in associated land in the nature of common or shared property, and

(b) with or without further subdivision (including a subdivision under the Strata Schemes (Freehold Development) Act 1973 ) in conjunction with the development of another such parcel or other such parcels.

(2) A plan is not registrable under this Act if, in the opinion of the Registrar-General, it is essentially for:

(a) the subdivision of a building into lots, or into lots and common property, where the lots are, by reference to the building, made to correspond to attached or semi-detached units within the building (whether or not a lot includes land not within the building), or

(b) the subdivision of land into lots and common property, where the common property comprises mainly land above a lot or lots or land below a lot or lots, or

(c) the subdivision of land into lots limited wholly or partly in height or in depth.

(3) This Act binds the Crown except in relation to a requirement to obtain an approval, consent or certificate from a consent authority.