New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAND DEVELOPMENT CONTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT ACT 1970 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"agent" includes every person who in the State, for or on behalf of any person out of the State (in this definition termed "the principal") has the control or disposal of any land belonging to the principal or the control, receipt or disposal of any rents, issues or proceeds derived from any such land.
"Appeals Board" means the Appeals Board constituted under section 59.
"assessment" means an assessment of contribution under Part 3.
"Authority" means the New South Wales Planning and Environment Commission constituted under the New South Wales Planning and Environment Commission Act 1974 .
"base date" means the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine.
"contribution" means development contribution calculated at the rates fixed by the Contribution Act on the leviable increase in the price of land or on the leviable increase in the value of land.
"Contribution Act" means the Land Development Contribution Act 1970 .
"contributor" means a person who may be assessed for contribution in accordance with this Act.
"council" has the meaning ascribed thereto in section 4 of the Local Government Act 1919 .
"county council" means a county council constituted under the Local Government Act 1919 .
"Court" means the Land and Environment Court.
"Crown lands" means:

(a) lands vested in Her Majesty and subject to the provisions of the Crown Lands Acts, as defined in subsection (1) of section 5 of the Crown Lands Consolidation Act 1913 , and

(b) lands the subject of any tenure granted under the Crown Lands Acts, as so defined.

"declared land" means any land to which an order under section 11 applies, being an order published in the Gazette on or before 7 February 1973.
"development" has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection (1) of section 342T of the Local Government Act 1919 .
"Fund" means the Land Development Contribution Fund established under Part 7.
"interim development order" has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection (1) of section 342T of the Local Government Act 1919 .
"land" includes land the owner of which is the Crown or a body corporate that is constituted by or under any Act and is deemed by that or any other Act to be a statutory body representing the Crown or to represent the Crown.
"local government area" has the meaning ascribed thereto in section 4 of the Local Government Act 1919 .
"mortgage" includes any charge whatever upon land or any interest therein, however created, for the securing of money.
"owner" means a person who has an estate or interest in land.
"planning scheme" means a scheme prescribed under Part 12A of the Local Government Act 1919 and includes the County of Cumberland Planning Scheme.
"public place" has the meaning ascribed thereto in section 4 of the Local Government Act 1919 .
"public reserve" has the meaning ascribed thereto in section 4 of the Local Government Act 1919 .
"public road" has the meaning ascribed thereto in the Roads Act 1993 .
"regulations" means regulations made under this Act.
"subdivision" has the meaning ascribed thereto in section 4 of the Local Government Act 1919 .
"the non-urban Sydney region" means the land within the local government areas specified in the Second Schedule that is shown edged red and tinted brown on the plans specified in the Third Schedule and filed in the office of the Authority.
"the Sydney region" means the local government areas specified in the First Schedule.
"trustee" includes, in addition to every person appointed or constituted trustee by act of parties, by order or declaration of a court or by operation of law:

(a) an executor or administrator, guardian, committee, receiver or liquidator, and

(b) every person having or taking upon himself or herself the administration or control of land affected by any express or implied trust or acting in any fiduciary capacity, or having the possession, control or management of land of a person under legal or other disability.

"valuation", in relation to land, means a determination of the value of the land made in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
"valuer-general" means the valuer-general appointed under the Valuation of Land Act 1916 .

(2) The powers, authorities, duties and functions conferred and imposed upon a council under this Act apply in respect of each local government area to the council of the area.