New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT ACT 1979 - SECT 5B

5B Planning authorities to have regard to register of critical habitat

(1) Each planning authority must have regard to the register of critical habitat kept by the Director-General of National Parks and Wildlife under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 when exercising its functions under this Act.

(2) In this section, "planning authority" in relation to a function under this Act means:

(a) in the case of a function relating to a development application-the consent authority (or a person or body taken to be a consent authority), and

(b) in the case of any other function-the public authority or other person responsible for exercising the function.