LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 164 Local policy not to be more onerous than this Act or the regulations
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 164
Local policy not to be more onerous than this Act or the regulations164 Local policy not to be more onerous than this Act or the regulations
(1) If a criterion is prescribed by this Act or the regulations in relation to--(a) a specified aspect of an activity that may be carried out only with the prior approval of the council, or(b) a specified aspect of anything for which an order may be given under Part 2,a local policy adopted under this Part by a council, to the extent to which its provisions impose a more onerous criterion in relation to the specified aspect, is void.
(2) However, for the purposes of this section, the imposition of a criterion in a local policy in relation to a specified aspect, does not, in the absence of the prescription by this Act or the regulations of a criterion in relation to that aspect, constitute a more onerous criterion.