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Sustainable Planning Bill 2009
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Sustainable Planning Bill 2009
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Chapter 1 Preliminary
Part 1 Introduction
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Part 2 Purpose and advancing the purpose
3 Purpose of Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4 Advancing Act's purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
5 What advancing Act's purpose includes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Part 3 Interpretation
Division 1 Dictionary
6 Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Division 2 Key definitions
7 Meaning of development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
8 Meaning of ecological sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
9 Meaning of lawful use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Division 3 Supporting definitions and explanations for key definitions
10 Definitions for terms used in development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
11 Explanation of terms used in ecological sustainability . . . . . . . . . 52
Division 4 General matters
12 Meaning of words in Act prevail over planning instruments . . . . . 53
13 References in Act to particular terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Part 4 Application of Act
14 Act binds all persons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Chapter 2 State planning instruments
Part 1 Preliminary
15 State planning instruments under Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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Part 2 State planning regulatory provisions
Division 1 Preliminary
16 What is a State planning regulatory provision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
17 Status of State planning regulatory provision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
18 State interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
19 Relationship with other instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Division 2 General matters about State planning regulatory provisions
20 Power to make State planning regulatory provision . . . . . . . . . . . 57
21 Content of State planning regulatory provision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Part 3 Regional plans
Division 1 Preliminary
22 What is a designated region. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Division 2 Regional plans for designated regions
Subdivision 1 Preliminary
23 What is a regional plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
24 Status of regional plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
25 State interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
26 Relationship with other instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Subdivision 2 Requirement to make, and key elements of, regional plans
27 Requirement to make regional plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
28 Key elements of regional plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Subdivision 3 Requirement to amend planning schemes to reflect
regional plans
29 Amending planning schemes to reflect regional plan. . . . . . . . . . 62
Division 3 Regional planning committees
30 What are regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
31 Establishment of regional planning committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
32 Functions of regional planning committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
33 Membership of regional planning committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
34 Changing particular committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
35 Dissolution of regional planning committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
36 Quorum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
37 Presiding at meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
38 Conduct of meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
39 Reports of particular committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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Part 4 State planning policies
Division 1 Preliminary
40 What is a State planning policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
41 Status of State planning policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
42 Area to which State planning policy applies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
43 Relationship with local planning instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Division 2 General matters about State planning policies
44 Power to make State planning policy--generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
45 Duration of State planning policy made under pt 6 . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Division 3 Temporary State planning policies
46 Power to make temporary State planning policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
47 Making temporary State planning policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
48 Effect of temporary State planning policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
49 Duration of temporary State planning policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Part 5 Standard planning scheme provisions
Division 1 Preliminary
50 What are standard planning scheme provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
51 Status of standard planning scheme provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
52 Effect of standard planning scheme provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
53 Relationship with local planning instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Division 2 General matters about standard planning scheme
provisions
54 Power to make standard planning scheme provisions . . . . . . . . . 72
55 Local governments to amend planning schemes to reflect
standard planning scheme provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Part 6 Making, amending and repealing State planning
instruments
Division 1 Preliminary
56 Process for making, amending or repealing State planning
instrument ..................................... 73
57 Compliance with divs 2 and 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Division 2 Process for making State planning instruments
58 Preparation of draft instrument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
59 Endorsing particular draft instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
60 Notice about draft instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
61 Keeping draft instrument available for inspection and purchase . 76
62 Dealing with draft State planning regulatory provision . . . . . . . . . 76
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63 Making State planning instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
64 Notice about making State planning instrument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
65 Notice about decision not to make State planning instrument . . . 78
66 Particular State planning regulatory provisions to be ratified by
Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
67 State planning regulatory provisions that are subject to
disallowance ..................................... 79
Division 3 Amending State planning instruments
Subdivision 1 Administrative and minor amendments, and particular
amendments to reflect documents
68 Administrative and minor amendment or amendment to
reflect other documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
69 Notice of amendment under s 68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Subdivision 2 Other amendments
70 Other amendments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
71 Decision not to proceed with amendment of regional plan. . . . . . 82
Division 4 When State planning instrument or amendment has effect
72 When State planning instrument or amendment has effect . . . . . 82
73 Effect of draft State planning regulatory provision and draft
amendments ...................................... 83
Division 5 Repealing and replacing State planning instruments
74 Notice of repeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
75 When repeal has effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
76 Replacement of regional plans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Chapter 3 Local planning instruments
Part 1 Preliminary
77 Local planning instruments under Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
78 Infrastructure intentions in local planning instruments not
binding ...................................... 85
Part 2 Planning schemes
Division 1 Preliminary
79 What is a planning scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
80 Status of planning scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
81 Effects of planning scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
82 Area to which planning scheme applies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
83 Relationship with planning scheme policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Division 2 General provisions about planning schemes
84 Power to make planning scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
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85 Documents planning scheme may adopt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
86 Relationship between planning schemes and Building Act . . . . . 88
87 Covenants not to conflict with planning scheme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Division 3 Key concepts for planning schemes
88 Key elements of planning scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
89 Core matters for planning scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
90 State, regional and local dimensions of planning scheme
matters ....................................... 91
Division 4 Reviewing planning schemes
91 Local government must review planning scheme every
10 years .................................... 92
92 Action local government may take after review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
93 Report about review if decision is to take no action . . . . . . . . . . . 92
94 Notice about report to be published . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Division 5 Application of superseded planning schemes
95 Request for application of superseded planning scheme. . . . . . . 93
96 Decision on request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
97 Notice of decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
98 When development under superseded planning scheme
must start ................................... 96
99 When development application (superseded planning
scheme) can be made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
100 When request for compliance assessment under a superseded
planning scheme can be made . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Part 3 Temporary local planning instruments
Division 1 Preliminary
101 What is a temporary local planning instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
102 Status of temporary local planning instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
103 Area to which temporary local planning instrument applies . . . . . 99
104 Relationship with planning scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Division 2 General matters about temporary local planning
instruments
105 Power to make temporary local planning instrument . . . . . . . . . . 99
106 Content of temporary local planning instrument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
107 Documents temporary local planning instrument may adopt . . . . 100
Part 4 Planning scheme policies
Division 1 Preliminary
108 What is a planning scheme policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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109 Status of planning scheme policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
110 Effect of planning scheme policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
111 Area to which planning scheme policy applies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
112 Relationship with other planning instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Division 2 General matters about planning scheme policies
113 Power to make planning scheme policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
114 Content of planning scheme policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
115 Planning scheme policy can not adopt particular documents . . . 103
Part 5 Making, amending or repealing local planning instruments
Division 1 Preliminary
116 Application of pt 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Division 2 Making or amending local planning instruments
117 Process for making or amending local planning instruments . . . . 104
118 Content of guideline for making or amending local planning
instrument .................................... 104
119 Compliance with guideline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
120 When planning scheme, temporary local planning instrument
and amendments have effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
121 When planning scheme policy and amendments have effect. . . . 107
122 Consolidating planning schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Division 3 Repealing local planning instruments
123 Repealing temporary local planning instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
124 Repealing planning scheme policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Part 6 Powers of State in relation to local planning instruments
Division 1 Direction to take action about local planning instruments
125 Procedures before exercising particular power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
126 Power of Minister to direct local government to take particular
action about local planning instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
127 Power of Minister to direct local government to prepare a
consolidated planning scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
128 Power of Minister if local government does not comply with
direction ...................................... 111
Division 2 Making or amending local planning instrument without
direction
129 Power of Minister to take action about local planning
instrument without direction to local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
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Division 3 Process for dealing with local planning instruments under
part 6
130 Process for Minister to take action under pt 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 4 Planning partnerships
Part 1 Master planning for particular areas of State interest
Division 1 Preliminary
131 Purpose of ch 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Division 2 Master planned areas
132 Identification of master planned areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
133 Master planned area declarations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
134 Restriction on particular development applications in master
planned area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
135 Notation of master planned areas on planning scheme . . . . . . . . 117
Part 2 Structure plans for master planned areas declared by the
Minister or regional planning Minister
Division 1 Preliminary
136 Application of pt 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
137 What is a structure plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
138 Relationship with regulation under s 232 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
139 Relationship with State planning instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Division 2 General matters about structure plans
140 Local government's obligation to have structure plan. . . . . . . . . . 118
141 Content of structure plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
142 Prohibited development under structure plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Division 3 Funding for structure plans
143 Agreement to fund structure plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
144 Special charge for making a structure plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Division 4 Making structure plans
145 Making structure plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
146 Content of guideline for making structure plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
147 Compliance with guideline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
148 When structure plan takes effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
149 Provisions for new planning schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Part 3 Master plans
Division 1 Preliminary
150 Application of pt 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
151 What is a master plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
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152 Relationship with regulation under s 232 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
153 Relationship with other planning instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
154 New planning instruments can not affect approved master plan . 126
Division 2 General matters about master plans
155 Content of master plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
156 Master plan attaches to land in master planning unit . . . . . . . . . . 128
157 Local government approval required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
158 When master plan ceases to have effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Division 3 Applying for and obtaining approval of proposed master
plan
Subdivision 1 Application stage for proposed master plan
159 Who may apply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
160 Requirements for application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Subdivision 2 Information and response stage
161 Local government gives application to coordinating agency . . . . 130
162 Request for information from applicant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
163 Applicant responds to any request for information . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
164 Lapsing of application if applicant does not respond . . . . . . . . . . 133
165 When application taken not to have lapsed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Subdivision 3 Consultation stage
166 When consultation is required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
167 Content requirements for public notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
168 When public notice must be given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
169 Notice to comply with public notice requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
170 Lapsing of application if notice not complied with . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
171 Making submissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
172 Distribution of submissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Subdivision 4 State government decision stage
173 Assessment by participating agency and coordinating agency . . 138
174 When participating agency's response must be given . . . . . . . . . 139
175 Participating agency's response powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
176 Coordinating agency's assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
177 Resolution of conflict by Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
178 Coordinating agency's decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Subdivision 5 Local government decision stage
179 Decision-making period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
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180 Assessment by local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
181 Local government's decision generally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
182 Restrictions on giving approval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
183 Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
184 Notice of decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
185 Representations about conditions and other matters. . . . . . . . . . 147
186 Applicant may suspend applicant's appeal period . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
187 When approval takes effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
188 Effect on decision stage if action taken under Native Title
Act (Cwlth) ..................................... 150
Subdivision 6 Ministerial directions about application
189 Ministerial directions to local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
190 Ministerial directions to applicant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Subdivision 7 Changing or withdrawing applications
191 Changing application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
192 Withdrawing application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Subdivision 8 Miscellaneous provisions
193 Agreements about master plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
194 Substantial compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
195 Additional third party advice or comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
196 Modified application of provisions about infrastructure for
master plan ...................................... 153
197 Notation of master plan on planning scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Division 4 Amending or cancelling master plans
198 Application to amend master plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
199 Cancellation of master plan by local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Chapter 5 Designation of land for community infrastructure
Part 1 Preliminary
200 Who may designate land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
201 Matters to be considered when designating land . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
202 What designations may include . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
203 How IDAS applies to designated land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
204 Relationship of designation to State Development and Public
Works Organisation Act 1971. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
205 How infrastructure charges apply to designated land . . . . . . . . . 157
206 How designations must be shown in planning schemes . . . . . . . 158
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Part 2 Ministerial designations
207 Matters the Minister must consider before designating land . . . . 159
208 Procedures after designation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
209 Procedures if designation does not proceed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
210 Effects of ministerial designations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
211 When local government must include designation in planning
scheme ...................................... 162
Part 3 Local government designations
212 Designation of land by local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
213 Designating land the local government does not own . . . . . . . . . 163
Part 4 Duration and reconfirmation of designations
214 Duration of designations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
215 When designations do not cease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
216 Reconfirming designation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Part 5 Repealing designations
217 Who may repeal designations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
218 Notice of repeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
219 Minister or local government to give notice of repeal to
particular entities .................................. 166
220 When designation ceases to have effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
221 Local government to note repeal on planning scheme. . . . . . . . . 167
Part 6 Acquiring designated land
222 Request to acquire designated land under hardship . . . . . . . . . . 167
223 Decision about request. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
224 Notice about grant of request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
225 Notice about refusal of request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
226 Alternative action designator may take. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
227 If the designator does not act under the notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
228 How value of interest is decided. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Part 7 Delegation of Minister's functions
229 Ministers may delegate particular administrative functions
about designations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Chapter 6 Integrated development assessment system (IDAS)
Part 1 Preliminary
Division 1 Introduction
230 What is IDAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
231 Categories of development under Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
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232 Regulation may prescribe categories of development or
require code or impact assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
233 Relationship between regulation and planning scheme,
temporary local planning instrument or local law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
234 Relationship between sch 1 and planning instruments . . . . . . . . 174
Division 2 Particular provisions about categories of development
235 Exempt development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
236 Self-assessable development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
237 Development requiring compliance assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
238 Assessable development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
239 Prohibited development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Division 3 Approvals for IDAS
Subdivision 1 Preliminary
240 Types of approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Subdivision 2 Preliminary approvals
241 Preliminary approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
242 Preliminary approval may affect a local planning instrument . . . . 177
Subdivision 3 Development permits
243 Development permits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Subdivision 4 Other matters about development approvals
244 Development approval includes conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
245 Development approval attaches to land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Division 4 Assessment managers and referral agencies
Subdivision 1 Assessment managers
246 Who is the assessment manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
247 Role of assessment manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
248 Jurisdiction of local government as assessment manager for
particular development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
249 When assessment manager also has jurisdiction as
concurrence agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Subdivision 2 Referral agencies
250 Who is an advice agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
251 Who is a concurrence agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
252 Who is a referral agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
253 Exclusion of particular entities as referral agency for a
master planned area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
254 Jurisdiction of referral agencies for applications--generally. . . . . 183
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255 Concurrence agencies if Minister decides assessment manager 183
Subdivision 3 Additional third party advice or comment about
applications
256 Assessment manager or concurrence agency may seek
advice or comment about application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Division 5 Stages of IDAS
257 Stages of IDAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Division 6 Application of IDAS in declared master planned areas
258 Exclusion of particular provisions about making application for
declared master planned area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Division 7 Giving notices electronically
259 Giving notices using e-IDAS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Part 2 Application stage
Division 1 Application process
Subdivision 1 Applying for development approvals
260 Applying for development approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
261 When application is a properly made application . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
262 Special provision about electronic applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
263 When owner's consent is required for application . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
264 Development involving a State resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
265 Approved material change of use required for particular
developments ................................... 191
Subdivision 2 Notices about receipt of applications
266 Notice about application that is not a properly made application . 191
267 Notice about properly made application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
268 Content of acknowledgement notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Division 2 End of application stage
269 When does application stage end . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Part 3 Information and referral stage
Division 1 Preliminary
270 Purpose of information and referral stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
271 Referral agency responses before application is made . . . . . . . . 195
Division 2 Giving material to referral agencies
272 Applicant gives material to referral agency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
273 Lapsing of application if material not given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
274 When application taken not to have lapsed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
275 Applicant to advise assessment manager when material given . . 197
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Division 3 Information requests
276 Information request to applicant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
277 Extending information request period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
278 Applicant responds to any information request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
279 Lapsing of application if no response to information request . . . . 200
280 When application taken not to have lapsed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
281 Referral agency to advise assessment manager of response . . . 201
Division 4 Referral agency assessment
Subdivision 1 Assessment generally
282 Referral agency assesses application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
283 Referral agency's assessment period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
284 Extending referral agency's assessment period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Subdivision 2 Concurrence agency responses
285 When concurrence agency must give response for particular
matters ....................................... 204
286 Effect if concurrence agency does not give response . . . . . . . . . 205
287 Concurrence agency's response powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
288 Limitation on concurrence agency's power to refuse application . 206
289 Concurrence agency's response to include reasons for
refusal or conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
290 How a concurrence agency may change its response or give
late response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Subdivision 3 Advice agency responses
291 When advice agency must give response for particular matters . 209
292 Advice agency's response powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Division 5 End of information and referral stage
293 When does information and referral stage end . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Part 4 Notification stage
Division 1 Preliminary
294 Purpose of notification stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
295 When notification stage applies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
296 When notification stage can start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Division 2 Public notification
297 Applicant or assessment manager to give public notice of
application .................................... 213
298 Notification period for applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
299 Requirements for particular notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
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300 Applicant to give assessment manager notice about particular
matters ....................................... 216
301 Notice of compliance to be given to assessment manager . . . . . 216
302 Application lapses if notification not carried out or notice of
compliance not given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
303 When application taken not to have lapsed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
304 Assessment manager may assess and decide application if
some requirements not complied with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Division 3 Submissions about applications
305 Making submissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
306 Submissions made during notification period effective for later
notification period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Division 4 End of notification stage
307 When does notification stage end . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Part 5 Decision stage
Division 1 Preliminary
308 Assessment necessary even if concurrence agency refuses
application .................................... 219
309 When does decision stage start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
310 Effect on decision stage if action taken under Native Title
Act (Cwlth) ................................... 220
Division 2 Assessment process
311 References in div 2 to planning instrument, code, law or policy. . 221
312 When assessment manager must not assess part of an
application ................................... 221
313 Code assessment--generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
314 Impact assessment--generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
315 Code and impact assessment--superseded planning scheme . . 224
316 Assessment for s 242 preliminary approvals that affect a
local planning instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
317 Assessment manager may give weight to later planning
instrument, code, law or policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Division 3 Decision
Subdivision 1 Decision-making period
318 Decision-making period--generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
319 Decision-making period--changed circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . 227
320 Applicant may stop decision-making period to make
representations ................................. 228
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321 Applicant may stop decision-making period to request chief
executive's assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
322 Decision-making period suspended until approval of master plan 229
Subdivision 2 Decision rules--generally
323 Application of sdiv 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
324 Decision generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
325 Effect of concurrence agency's response. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
326 Other decision rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Subdivision 3 Decision rules--application under section 242
327 Decision if application under s 242 requires assessment . . . . . . 232
328 Effect of concurrence agency's response. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
329 Other decision rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Subdivision 4 Deemed decision for particular applications
330 Application of sdiv 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
331 Deemed approval of applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
332 Standard conditions for deemed approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
333 Limitation on giving deemed approval notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Division 4 Notice of decision
334 Assessment manager to give notice of decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
335 Content of decision notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
336 Material to be given with decision notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
337 Assessment manager to give copy of decision notice to
principal submitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
338 Decision notice given by private certifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Division 5 Approvals
339 When approval takes effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
340 When development may start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
341 When approval lapses if development not started . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
342 When approval lapses if development started but
not completed--general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
343 When approval lapses if development started but not
completed--preliminary approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Division 6 Conditions
344 Application of div 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
345 Conditions must be relevant or reasonable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
346 Conditions generally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
347 Conditions that can not be imposed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
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348 Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
349 Covenants not to be inconsistent with development approvals . . 250
Part 6 Changing or withdrawing development applications
Division 1 Preliminary
350 Meaning of minor change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Division 2 Procedure for changing applications
351 Changing application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
352 Assessment manager to advise referral agencies about
changed applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Division 3 Changed applications--effect on IDAS
353 Effect on IDAS--minor change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
354 Effect on IDAS--changes about matters relating to
submissions or information requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
355 Effect on IDAS--other changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Division 4 Withdrawing applications
356 Withdrawing an application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Part 7 Missed referral agencies
357 Notice of missed referral agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
358 Effect of missed referral agency on information and referral
stage and notification stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
359 Effect of missed referral agency on decision stage . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Part 8 Dealing with decision notices and approvals
Division 1 Changing decision notices and approvals during
applicant's appeal period
360 Application of div 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
361 Applicant may make representations about decision . . . . . . . . . . 259
362 Assessment manager to consider representations . . . . . . . . . . . 259
363 Decision about representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
364 Giving new infrastructure charges notice or regulated
infrastructure charges notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
365 Giving new regulated State infrastructure charges notice . . . . . . 261
366 Applicant may suspend applicant's appeal period . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Division 2 Changing approvals--request for change after applicant's
appeal period ends
Subdivision 1 Preliminary
367 What is a permissible change for a development approval . . . . . 262
368 Notice about proposed change before request is made. . . . . . . . 263
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Subdivision 2 Procedure for changing approvals
369 Request to change development approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
370 Notice of request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
371 When owner's consent required for request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
372 Copy of request to be given to particular entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Subdivision 3 Assessing and deciding request for change
373 Particular entities to assess request for change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
374 Responsible entity to assess request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
375 Responsible entity to decide request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
376 Notice of decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
377 When decision has effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Division 3 Changing or cancelling particular conditions--other than
on request
378 When condition may be changed or cancelled by assessment
manager or concurrence agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Division 4 Cancelling approvals
379 Request to cancel development approval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
380 Restriction on making request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
381 Assessment manager to cancel approval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
382 Release of monetary security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Division 5 Extending period of approvals
383 Request to extend period in s 341 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
384 Request can not be withdrawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
385 Concurrence agency may advise assessment manager
about request .................................. 275
386 Deciding particular requests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
387 Assessment manager to decide request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
388 Deciding request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
389 Assessment manager to give notice of decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
390 Approval does not lapse until request is decided . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Division 6 Recording approvals on planning scheme
391 Particular approvals to be recorded on planning scheme . . . . . . 278
Part 9 Applying IDAS to mobile and temporary environmentally
relevant activities
392 Mobile and temporary environmentally relevant activities . . . . . . 278
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Part 10 Compliance stage
Division 1 Preliminary
393 Purpose of compliance stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
394 Compliance permit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
395 Compliance certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
396 What does compliance stage apply to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
397 Nominating a document or work for compliance
assessment--generally .......................... 280
398 Nominating document or work for compliance
assessment--condition of development approval . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
399 Who may carry out compliance assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
400 When compliance stage starts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Division 2 Compliance assessment
Subdivision 1 Request for compliance assessment
401 Request for compliance assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Subdivision 2 Referring request to local government
402 Aspects of development requiring compliance assessment to
be referred to local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Subdivision 3 Compliance assessor to assess and decide request
403 Assessment of request. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
404 Assessment of request under superseded planning scheme. . . . 286
405 Deciding request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
406 Conditions must be relevant and reasonable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
407 Compliance assessor to give compliance permit or certificate
on approval of request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
408 When notice about decision must be given . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
409 Duration and effect of compliance permit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
410 When development may start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Subdivision 4 Lapsing of request
411 When request for compliance assessment lapses . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Division 3 Changing notices, compliance permits and certificates
412 Changing and withdrawing action notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
413 Changing compliance permit or compliance certificate . . . . . . . . 293
414 When decision about change has effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Division 4 Other matters
415 Regulation may prescribe additional requirements and actions . . 294
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416 Effect on deciding request if action taken under Native Title
Act 1993 (Cwlth) .................................. 294
Part 11 Ministerial IDAS powers
Division 1 Ministerial directions
417 Ministerial directions to assessment managers--future
applications .................................... 295
418 Ministerial directions to assessment managers--particular
applications .................................... 296
419 Ministerial directions to assessment managers--conditions . . . . 298
420 Ministerial directions to concurrence agencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
421 Ministerial directions to applicants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
422 Report about decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Division 2 Ministerial call in powers
423 Definitions for div 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
424 When a development application may be called in. . . . . . . . . . . . 301
425 Notice of call in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
426 Minister's action on calling in application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
427 Effect of call in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
428 Original assessment manager to assist Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
429 Minister's decision notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
430 Provision for application called in by regional planning Minister . 305
431 Process if call in decision does not deal with all aspects of the
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
432 Report about decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
433 Report about compliance with development approval . . . . . . . . . 307
Part 12 Miscellaneous provision
434 Refunding fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Chapter 7 Appeals, offences and enforcement
Part 1 Planning and Environment Court
Division 1 Establishment and jurisdiction of court
435 Continuance of Planning and Environment Court . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
436 Jurisdiction of court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
437 Proceedings open to public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Division 2 Powers of court
438 Subpoenas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
439 Contempt and contravention of orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
440 How court may deal with matters involving non- compliance . . . . 310
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441 Terms of orders etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
442 Taking and recording evidence etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Division 3 Constituting court
443 Constituting court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
444 Jurisdiction of judges not impaired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Division 4 Rules and orders or directions about proceedings
445 Rules of court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
446 Orders or directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Division 5 Parties to proceedings and court sittings
447 Where court may sit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
448 Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
449 Adjournments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
450 What happens if judge dies or is incapacitated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
451 Stating case for Court of Appeal's opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Division 6 Registry and other court officers
452 Registrars and other court officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
453 Registries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
454 Court records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
455 Judicial notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Division 7 Other court matters
456 Court may make declarations and orders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
457 Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
458 Privileges, protection and immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
459 Payment of witnesses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
460 Evidence of local planning instruments or master plans . . . . . . . 319
Division 8 Appeals to court relating to development applications and
approvals
461 Appeals by applicants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
462 Appeals by submitters--general. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
463 Additional and extended appeal rights for submitters for
particular development applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
464 Appeals by advice agency submitters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
465 Appeals about decisions relating to extensions for approvals . . . 322
466 Appeals about decisions relating to permissible changes . . . . . . 323
467 Appeals about changing or cancelling conditions imposed by
assessment manager or concurrence agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
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Division 9 Appeals to court about compliance assessment
468 Appeals against decision on request for compliance assessment 324
469 Appeals against condition imposed on compliance permit
or certificate .................................. 324
470 Appeals against particular decisions about compliance
assessment ................................... 324
Division 10 Appeals to court about other matters
471 Appeal by applicant for approval of a proposed master plan . . . . 325
472 Appeal about extension of period under s 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
473 Appeals against enforcement notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
474 Stay of operation of enforcement notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
475 Appeals against local laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
476 Appeals against decisions on compensation claims . . . . . . . . . . 327
477 Appeals against decisions on requests to acquire designated
land under hardship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
478 Appeals about particular charges for infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . 328
479 Appeals from building and development committees . . . . . . . . . . 329
480 Court may remit matter to building and development committee . 329
Division 11 Making an appeal to court
481 How appeals to the court are started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
482 Notice of appeal to other parties--development applications
and approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
483 Notice of appeals to other parties--compliance assessment. . . . 332
484 Notice of appeal to other parties--other matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
485 Respondent and co-respondents for appeals under div 8 . . . . . . 333
486 Respondent and co-respondents for appeals under div 9 . . . . . . 334
487 Respondent and co-respondents for appeals under div 10 . . . . . 335
488 How an entity may elect to be a co-respondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
489 Minister entitled to be party to an appeal involving a State
interest ....................................... 336
490 Lodging appeal stops particular actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Division 12 Alternative dispute resolution
491 ADR process applies to proceedings started under this part . . . . 336
Division 13 Court process for appeals
492 Hearing procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
493 Who must prove case. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
494 Court may hear appeals together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
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495 Appeal by way of hearing anew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
496 Appeal decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
497 Court may allow longer period to take an action . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Division 14 Appeals to Court of Appeal
498 Who may appeal to Court of Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
499 When leave to appeal must be sought and appeal made . . . . . . 341
500 Power of Court of Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
501 Lodging appeal stops particular actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Part 2 Building and development dispute resolution committees
Division 1 Establishment, constitution and jurisdiction of committees
502 Establishing building and development dispute resolution
committees ...................................... 343
503 Consultation about multiple member committees . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
504 Same members to continue for duration of committee. . . . . . . . . 344
505 Referee with conflict of interest not to be member of committee . 344
506 Referee not to act as member of committee in particular cases . 345
507 Remuneration of members of committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
508 Jurisdiction of committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Division 2 Other officials of building and development committees
509 Appointment of registrar and other officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Division 3 Committee declarations
Subdivision 1 Declarations
510 Declaration about whether development application is properly
made ........................................ 347
511 Declaration about acknowledgement notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
512 Declaration about lapsing of request for compliance assessment 348
513 Declaration about change to development approval . . . . . . . . . . 348
Subdivision 2 Proceedings for declarations
514 How proceedings for declarations are started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
515 Fast-track proceedings for declarations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
516 Notice of proceedings to other parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
517 Respondent for declarations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
518 Minister entitled to be represented in proceeding involving a
State interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
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Division 4 Appeals to committees about development applications
and approvals
Subdivision 1 Appeals about particular material changes of use
519 Appeal by applicant--particular development application for
material change of use of premises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
520 Appeal about decision relating to extension for development
approval ...................................... 353
521 Appeal about decisions relating to permissible changes . . . . . . . 353
Subdivision 2 Appeals about conditions of particular development
approvals
522 Appeal by applicant--condition of particular development
approval ...................................... 354
Division 5 Appeals to committees about compliance assessment
523 Appeal against decision on request for compliance assessment . 355
524 Appeal against condition imposed on compliance permit or
certificate .................................... 356
525 Appeals against particular decisions about compliance
assessment .............................. 356
Division 6 Appeals to committees about building, plumbing and
drainage and other matters
Subdivision 1 Preliminary
526 Matters about which a person may appeal under div 6 . . . . . . . . 357
Subdivision 2 Appeals about development applications and approvals
527 Appeals by applicants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
528 Appeal by advice agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
529 Appeal about decision relating to extension for development
approval ...................................... 359
530 Appeal about decision relating to permissible changes . . . . . . . . 359
531 Appeals about changing or cancelling conditions imposed by
assessment manager or concurrence agency ......... 360
Subdivision 3 Other matters
532 Appeals for building and plumbing and drainage matters . . . . . . 360
533 Appeals against enforcement notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
534 Stay of operation of enforcement notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Division 7 Appeals about particular charges
535 Appeals about charges for infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Division 8 Making appeals to building and development committees
536 How appeals to committees are started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
537 Fast-track appeals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
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538 Notice of appeal to other parties (under other Acts) . . . . . . . . . . 364
539 Notice of appeal to other parties (div 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
540 Notice of appeal to other parties (div 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
541 Notice of appeal to other parties (div 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
542 Notice of appeal to other parties (s 535) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
543 Respondent and co-respondents for appeals under s 519,
522 or 527 .................................... 368
544 Respondent and co-respondents for appeals under s 520
or 529 ...................................... 368
545 Respondent and co-respondents for appeals under s 521 or 530 369
546 Respondent and co-respondents for appeals under s 528. . . . . . 369
547 Respondent and co-respondents for appeals under s 531,
532, 533 or 535 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
548 Respondent and co-respondents for appeals under div 5 . . . . . . 370
549 How a person may elect to be co-respondent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
550 Respondent and co-respondents to be heard in appeal . . . . . . . 371
551 Registrar must ask assessment manager for material in
particular proceedings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
552 Minister entitled to be represented in an appeal involving a
State interest ...................................... 371
553 Lodging appeal stops particular actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Division 9 Process for appeals or proceedings for declarations in
building and development committees
554 Establishing a building and development committee . . . . . . . . . . 372
555 Procedures of committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
556 Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
557 Committee may allow longer period to take an action . . . . . . . . . 373
558 Appeal or other proceedings may be by hearing or written
submission ................................... 374
559 Appeals or other proceedings by hearing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
560 Right to representation at hearing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
561 Conduct of hearings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
562 Appeals or other proceedings by written submission . . . . . . . . . . 375
563 Matters committee may consider in making a decision . . . . . . . . 376
564 Appeal decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
565 Committee may make orders about declaration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
566 Declaration decision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
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567 When decision may be made without representation or
submission .................................. 378
568 Notice of compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
569 Publication of committee decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Division 10 Referees
570 Appointment of referees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
571 Qualifications of general referees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
572 Term of referee's appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
573 General referee to make declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Part 3 Provisions about offences, notices and orders
Division 1 Particular offences and exemptions
Subdivision 1 Development offences
574 Self-assessable development must comply with codes . . . . . . . . 381
575 Carrying out development without compliance permit . . . . . . . . . 381
576 Compliance with compliance permit or compliance certificate. . . 381
577 Making request for compliance assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
578 Carrying out assessable development without permit . . . . . . . . . 382
579 Particular assessable development must comply with codes. . . . 382
580 Compliance with development approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
581 Offence to carry out prohibited development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
582 Offences about the use of premises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
583 Compliance with master plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Subdivision 2 Exemptions
584 General exemption for emergency development or use . . . . . . . . 385
585 Coastal emergency exemption for operational work that is tidal
works ......................................... 385
586 Exemption for building work on Queensland heritage place or
local heritage place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Subdivision 3 False or misleading documents or declarations
587 False or misleading document or declaration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Division 2 Show cause notices
588 Giving show cause notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
589 General requirements of show cause notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Division 3 Enforcement notices
590 Giving enforcement notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
591 Restriction on giving enforcement notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
592 Specific requirements of enforcement notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
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593 General requirements of enforcement notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
594 Offences relating to enforcement notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
595 Processing application or request required by enforcement
notice or show cause notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
596 Assessing authority may take action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Division 4 Offence proceedings in Magistrates Court
597 Proceedings for offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
598 Proceeding brought in a representative capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
599 Magistrates Court may make orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
600 Costs involved in bringing proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Division 5 Enforcement orders of court
601 Proceeding for orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
602 Proceeding brought in a representative capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
603 Making interim enforcement order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
604 Making enforcement order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
605 Effect of orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
606 Court's powers about orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
607 Costs involved in bringing proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Division 6 Application of Acts
608 Application of other Acts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Part 4 Legal proceedings
Division 1 Proceedings
609 Summary proceedings for offences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
610 Limitation on time for starting proceedings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
611 Executive officers must ensure corporation complies with Act. . . 402
Division 2 Fines and costs
612 When fines payable to local government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
613 Order for compensation or remedial action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
614 Recovery of costs of investigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Division 3 Evidence
615 Application of div 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
616 Appointments and authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
617 Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
618 Matter coming to complainant's knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
619 Instruments, equipment and installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
620 Analyst's certificate or report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
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621 Evidence of planning instruments or notices of designation . . . . 406
622 Planning instruments presumed to be within jurisdiction . . . . . . . 407
623 Evidentiary aids generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
624 Responsibility for acts or omissions of representatives . . . . . . . . 408
Chapter 8 Infrastructure
Part 1 Infrastructure planning and funding
Division 1 Preliminary
625 Purpose of pt 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Division 2 Non-trunk infrastructure
626 Conditions local governments may impose for non-trunk
infrastructure ................................. 410
Division 3 Trunk infrastructure
627 Priority infrastructure plans for trunk infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . 410
628 Local government must review its priority infrastructure plan
every 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
629 Funding trunk infrastructure for local governments . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Division 4 Trunk infrastructure funding under an infrastructure
charges schedule
630 Preparing and making or amending infrastructure charges
schedules ..................................... 412
631 Key elements of an infrastructure charges schedule . . . . . . . . . . 413
632 Infrastructure charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
633 Infrastructure charges notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
634 When infrastructure charges are payable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
635 Application of infrastructure charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
636 Accounting for infrastructure charges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
637 Agreements about, and alternatives to, paying infrastructure
charges ......................................... 418
638 Local government may supply different trunk infrastructure from
that identified in a priority infrastructure plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
639 Infrastructure charges taken to be a rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Division 5 Trunk infrastructure funding under a regulated
infrastructure charges schedule
640 Regulated infrastructure charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
641 Adopting and notifying regulated infrastructure charges
schedule ..................................... 420
642 Regulated infrastructure charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
643 Regulated infrastructure charges notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
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644 When regulated infrastructure charges are payable. . . . . . . . . . . 423
645 Application of regulated infrastructure charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
646 Accounting for regulated infrastructure charges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
647 Agreements about, and alternatives to, paying regulated
infrastructure charges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
648 Regulated infrastructure charges taken to be a rate . . . . . . . . . . 424
Division 6 Conditions local governments may impose for necessary
trunk infrastructure
649 Conditions local governments may impose for necessary
trunk infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
Division 7 Conditions local governments may impose for additional
trunk infrastructure costs
650 Conditions local governments may impose for additional trunk
infrastructure costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
651 Local government additional trunk infrastructure costs in
priority infrastructure areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
652 Local government additional trunk infrastructure costs outside
priority infrastructure areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Division 8 Conditions State infrastructure providers may impose for
infrastructure
653 Conditions State infrastructure provider may impose. . . . . . . . . . 431
654 Requirements for conditions about safety or efficiency . . . . . . . . 433
655 Requirements for conditions about additional infrastructure
costs ........................................ 434
656 State infrastructure provider additional infrastructure costs in
priority infrastructure areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
657 State infrastructure provider additional infrastructure costs
outside priority infrastructure areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
Division 9 Miscellaneous
658 Agreements for infrastructure partnerships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
659 Sale of particular land held on trust by local governments. . . . . . 438
Part 2 Infrastructure agreements
660 Definition for pt 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
661 Content of infrastructure agreements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
662 Copy of infrastructure agreements to be given to local
government ................................. 441
663 When infrastructure agreements bind successors in title. . . . . . . 441
664 Exercise of discretion unaffected by infrastructure agreements . . 442
665 Infrastructure agreements prevail if inconsistent with particular
instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
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Part 3 Funding of State infrastructure in master planned areas
666 Purpose of pt 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
667 Power to make regulated State infrastructure charges schedule
for master planned area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
668 Content of regulated State infrastructure charges schedule . . . . 443
669 Regulated State infrastructure charges notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444
670 When regulated State infrastructure charge is payable . . . . . . . . 445
671 Application of regulated State infrastructure charges. . . . . . . . . . 445
672 Accounting for regulated State infrastructure charges . . . . . . . . . 445
673 Infrastructure agreements about, and alternatives to paying
regulated State infrastructure charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
674 Recovery of regulated State infrastructure charges . . . . . . . . . . . 446
Part 4 Changing notices
675 Definition for pt 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
676 Application of pt 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
677 Representations about notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
678 Consideration of representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447
679 Decision about representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
680 Suspension of relevant appeal period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Chapter 9 Miscellaneous
Part 1 Existing uses and rights protected
681 Lawful uses of premises on commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
682 Lawful uses of premises protected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
683 Lawfully constructed buildings and works protected . . . . . . . . . . 451
684 New planning instruments can not affect existing development
approvals or compliance permits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
685 Implied and uncommenced right to use premises protected . . . . 451
686 State forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
687 Particular development may still be assessable or
self-assessable development or development requiring
compliance assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Part 2 Environmental impact statements
Division 1 Preliminary
688 When EIS process applies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
689 Purpose of EIS process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Division 2 EIS process
690 Applying for terms of reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
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691 Draft terms of reference for EIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
692 Terms of reference for EIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
693 Preparation of draft EIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
694 Public notification of draft EIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
695 Making submissions on draft EIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
696 Chief executive evaluates draft EIS, submissions and other
relevant material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
697 EIS assessment report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
698 Criteria for preparing report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
699 Required content of report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
700 Who the chief executive must give EIS and other material to . . . 464
Division 3 How EIS process affects IDAS
701 How IDAS applies for development the subject of an EIS . . . . . . 464
Division 4 How EIS process affects designation
702 Matters a designator must consider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
Part 3 Compensation
703 Definitions for pt 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
704 Compensation for reduced value of interest in land . . . . . . . . . . . 466
705 Compensation for interest in land being changed to public
purpose ...................................... 469
706 Limitations on compensation under ss 704 and 705 . . . . . . . . . . 469
707 Compensation for erroneous planning and development
certificates ...................................... 471
708 Time limits for claiming compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
709 Time limits for deciding and advising on claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472
710 Deciding claims for compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
711 Calculating reasonable compensation involving changes . . . . . . 473
712 When compensation is payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
713 Payment of compensation to be recorded on title . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
Part 4 Power to purchase, take or enter land for planning
purposes
714 Local government may take or purchase land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
715 Power of assessment manager or other entity to enter land in
particular circumstances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
716 Compensation for loss or damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Part 5 Public housing
717 Application of pt 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
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718 Definition for pt 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
719 How IDAS applies to development under pt 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
720 How charges for infrastructure apply for development under pt 5 478
721 Chief executive must publicly notify particular proposed
development .................................... 479
722 Chief executive must advise local government about all
development ..................................... 479
Part 6 Public access to planning and development information
Division 1 Preliminary
723 Meaning of available for inspection and purchase . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
Division 2 Documents available for inspection and purchase or
inspection only
Subdivision 1 Requirements for local governments
724 Documents local government must keep available for
inspection and purchase--general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
725 Documents local government must keep available for
inspection and purchase--master plan applications . . . . . . . . . . 486
726 Documents local government must keep available for
inspection and purchase--compliance assessment . . . . . . . . . . 487
727 Documents local government must keep available for
inspection only .................................. 488
Subdivision 2 Requirements for assessment managers
728 Documents assessment manager must keep available for
inspection and purchase--development application . . . . . . . . . . 489
729 Documents assessment manager must keep available for
inspection and purchase--general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490
730 Documents assessment manager must keep available for
inspection only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
Subdivision 3 Requirements for referral agencies
731 Documents referral agency must keep available for
inspection only ................................. 494
Subdivision 4 Requirements for chief executive
732 Documents chief executive must keep available for inspection
and purchase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495
733 Documents chief executive must keep available for inspection
only ......................................... 497
Subdivision 5 Requirements for compliance assessors
734 Documents compliance assessor must keep available for
inspection and purchase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
735 Documents compliance assessor must keep available for
inspection only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
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Division 3 Local governments to publish particular information about
development applications
736 Publishing particular information about development application. 500
Division 4 Planning and development certificates
737 Application for planning and development certificate . . . . . . . . . . 501
738 Limited planning and development certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
739 Standard planning and development certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
740 Full planning and development certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
741 Time within which planning and development certificate must
be given ...................................... 504
742 Effect of planning and development certificate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
Part 7 Notification stage for particular aquaculture development
Division 1 Preliminary
743 Purpose of notification stage under pt 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
744 When notification stage under pt 7 applies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
745 When can notification stage start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
Division 2 Public notification
746 Public notice of proposed development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
747 Notification period for development applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
748 Requirements for particular notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
749 Notice of compliance to be given to assessment manager and
concurrence agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
750 Assessment manager may assess and decide application if
some requirements not complied with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
751 Making submissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
752 Submissions made during notification period effective for later
notification period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Division 3 End of notification stage
753 When does notification stage end . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
Division 4 Changed referral agency provisions for applications to
which this part applies
754 Referral agency must not respond before notification stage ends 511
755 Adjusted referral agency's assessment period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
Part 8 General
756 Giving electronic submissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
757 Application of Judicial Review Act 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
758 References to Planning and Environment Court and judge
of the court in other Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
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759 Minister may make guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
760 Chief executive may make guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 514
761 Delegation by Ministers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
762 Approved forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
763 Regulation-making power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
Chapter 10 Repeal and transitional provisions
Part 1 Repeal provision
764 Act repealed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Part 2 Transitional provisions
Division 1 Preliminary
765 Definitions for pt 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Division 2 Provisions for State planning instruments
766 Continuing effect of State planning regulatory provisions . . . . . . 517
767 Making or amending State planning regulatory provisions
under repealed IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
768 Continuing effect of regional plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
769 Making or amending regional plans under repealed IPA . . . . . . . 518
770 Continuing effect of particular directions and notices. . . . . . . . . . 518
771 Continuation of regional planning advisory committees . . . . . . . . 518
772 Continuation of regional coordination committees . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
773 Continuing effect of particular State planning policies . . . . . . . . . 519
774 Continuing effect of State planning policy having effect for
less than 1 year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
775 Making or amending State planning policies under repealed IPA 520
776 Notification requirements do not apply for making particular
State planning instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
Division 3 Provisions for local planning instruments
777 Relationship between standard planning scheme provisions
and particular instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521
778 Continuing effect of planning schemes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
779 Making or amending planning schemes under repealed IPA . . . . 523
780 Continuing superseded planning schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
781 Reviewing planning schemes and priority infrastructure plans. . . 523
782 Continuing effect of temporary local planning instruments. . . . . . 524
783 Making temporary local planning instruments under repealed IPA 524
784 Repealing particular temporary local planning instruments . . . . . 525
785 Continuing effect of planning scheme policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
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786 Making or amending planning scheme policies under
repealed IPA ................................. 526
787 Repealing particular planning scheme policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
788 Particular notices and directions under repealed IPA . . . . . . . . . . 526
Division 4 Provisions for planning partnerships
789 Master planned areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
790 Structure plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
791 Making structure plan under repealed IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
792 Application of s 149 to particular structure plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
793 Master plans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
794 Applications for approval or amendment of master plans
under repealed IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
795 Continuation of particular agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
796 Continuation of particular local government resolutions. . . . . . . . 530
797 Master plans prevail over conditions of rezoning approvals
under the repealed LGP&E Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
Division 5 Provisions for designations of community infrastructure
798 Designation of community infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
799 Designation of land under repealed IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
800 Continuing request to acquire designated land under
repealed IPA .................................. 532
Division 6 Provisions for integrated development assessment system
801 Continuing effect of development approvals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
802 Development applications under repealed IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
803 Dealing with existing applications under other Acts . . . . . . . . . . . 533
804 Continuing application of repealed IPA, s 5.1.25(1) . . . . . . . . . . . 534
805 Request about application of superseded planning schemes . . . 534
806 Particular acknowledgement notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
807 Application of repealed IPA, ch 3, pt 5, div 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
808 Preliminary approvals under repealed IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
809 Requests to extend period under repealed IPA, s 3.5.21 . . . . . . . 536
810 Changing development approvals under repealed IPA. . . . . . . . . 536
811 Request to cancel development approval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
812 Particular condition of development approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
813 Continuation of agreements under repealed IPA, s 3.5.34 . . . . . . 537
814 Directions and call in powers under repealed IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
815 Continuing effect of repealed IPA, ch 3, pt 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
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Division 7 Provisions for appeals and enforcement
Subdivision 1 Planning and Environment Court
816 Appointments of judges continue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
817 Rules of court and directions continue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
818 Proceedings for declarations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
819 Appeals to court--generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
820 Proceedings for particular declarations and appeals . . . . . . . . . . 541
821 Application of repealed IPA, s 4.1.52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
822 Appeals to Court of Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542
Subdivision 2 Building and development tribunals
823 Establishment of tribunal under repealed IPA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
824 Continuation of appointment as general or aesthetics referee . . . 543
825 Continuation of appointment as registrar or other officer . . . . . . . 544
826 Application of ch 7, pt 2, div 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
827 Appeals to tribunals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
828 Application of repealed IPA, s 4.2.33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
Subdivision 3 Show cause notices and enforcement notices
829 Show cause notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
830 Enforcement notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
Subdivision 4 Legal proceedings
831 Proceedings for offences, and orders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546
832 Enforcement orders of the court. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
Division 8 Provisions about infrastructure
Subdivision 1 Preliminary
833 Charges for infrastructure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
Subdivision 2 Infrastructure planning and funding
834 Priority infrastructure plans for existing planning schemes . . . . . 548
835 Continuing effect of priority infrastructure plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
836 Infrastructure charges schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
837 Regulated infrastructure charges schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
838 Continued application of particular provisions about charges . . . 549
839 Application of ch 8, pt 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
Subdivision 3 Infrastructure agreements
840 Infrastructure agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
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Subdivision 4 Funding of State infrastructure in master planned areas
841 Regulated State infrastructure charges schedules and
agreements ................................... 550
Division 9 Provisions about matters under repealed IPA, chapter 5
842 Claims for compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
843 Keeping particular documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
844 Planning and development certificates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
845 Delegations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
846 Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
Division 10 Provisions about matters under repealed IPA, chapter 6
847 Planning scheme policies for infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552
848 Conditions about infrastructure for particular applications . . . . . . 554
849 Appeals about infrastructure contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
850 Conditions attaching to land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
851 Applications in progress under transitional planning schemes. . . 556
852 Applications to change conditions of rezoning approvals under
repealed LGP&E Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
853 Development approvals prevail over conditions of rezoning
approvals under repealed LGP&E Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
854 Notice under repealed IPA, s 6.1.44. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
855 Infrastructure agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
856 Rezoning agreements under previous Acts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
857 Development control plans under repealed LGP&E Act. . . . . . . . 559
858 Transition of validated planning documents to master planning
documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
859 Local Government (Robina Central Planning Agreement) Act
1992 ......................................... 562
860 Town planning certificates may be used as evidence. . . . . . . . . . 563
861 Orders in council about particular land. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
862 Application of repealed IPA, s 6.1.54 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
863 Provision for infrastructure charges plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
Division 11 Provisions for SEQ regional plan
864 Definitions for div 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
865 References in SEQ regional plan and regulatory provisions . . . . 565
866 Structure plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
Division 12 Miscellaneous
867 Provision for particular development applications--local
heritage places .................................... 566
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868 Particular activities not a material change of use . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
869 Deferment of application of s 578 to particular material
changes of use ................................. 567
870 References to repealed IPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
871 Transitional regulation-making power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Chapter 11 Amendments of Acts
872 Acts amended in sch 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568
Schedule 1 Prohibited development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Schedule 2 Acts amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
Airport Assets (Restructuring and Disposal) Act 2008 . . . . . . . . . 575
Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997. . . . . . . 582
Brisbane Forest Park Act 1977. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
Building Act 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
Building and Construction Industry (Portable Long Service
Leave) Act 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
Cape York Peninsula Heritage Act 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
Century Zinc Project Act 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
Child Care Act 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Coastal Protection and Management Act 1995 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Dangerous Goods Safety Management Act 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
Domestic Building Contracts Act 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
Electricity Act 1994. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
Environmental Protection Act 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
Fire and Rescue Service Act 1990. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614
Fisheries Act 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615
Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624
Iconic Queensland Places Act 2008. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
Inala Shopping Centre Freeholding Act 2006. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
Integrated Resort Development Act 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
Land Act 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
Land Protection (Pest and Stock Route Management) Act 2002 . 634
Land Sales Act 1984 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
Land Tax Act 1915 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Land Title Act 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Liquor Act 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
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Local Government Act 1993 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Local Government Act 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643
Major Sports Facilities Act 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Marine Parks Act 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
Mineral Resources Act 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
Motor Racing Events Act 1990 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
National Trust of Queensland Act 1963 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Nature Conservation Act 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Nuclear Facilities Prohibition Act 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Petroleum Act 1923 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Petroleum and Gas (Production and Safety) Act 2004. . . . . . . . . 648
Planning (Urban Encroachment--Milton Brewery) Act 2009 . . . . 649
Plumbing and Drainage Act 2002. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
Private Health Facilities Act 1999. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652
Prostitution Act 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652
Queensland Building Services Authority Act 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Queensland Heritage Act 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Residential Services (Accreditation) Act 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
South Bank Corporation Act 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
South East Queensland Water (Restructuring) Act 2007 . . . . . . . 662
Southern Moreton Bay Islands Development Entitlements
Protection Act 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971 . . . 668
Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Act 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Townsville City Council (Douglas Land Development) Act 1993 . 674
Transport Infrastructure Act 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
Transport Operations (Marine Safety) Act 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678
Transport Planning and Coordination Act 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
Transport (South Bank Corporation Area Land) Act 1999 . . . . . . 679
Urban Land Development Authority Act 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680
Valuation of Land Act 1944 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685
Vegetation Management Act 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685
Vegetation Management (Regrowth Clearing Moratorium) Act
2009 ......................................... 692
Water Act 2000. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
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Water Supply (Safety and Reliability) Act 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
Wet Tropics World Heritage Protection and Management Act
1993 .......................................... 704
Wild Rivers Act 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704
Schedule 3 Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709
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2009
A Bill
for
An Act for a framework to integrate planning and development
assessment so that development and its effects are managed
in a way that is ecologically sustainable, and for related
purposes
Sustainable Planning Bill 2009
Chapter 1 Preliminary
Part 1 Introduction
[s 1]
The Parliament of Queensland enacts-- 1
Chapter 1 Preliminary 2
Part 1 Introduction 3
1 Short title 4
This Act may be cited as the Sustainable Planning Act 2009. 5
2 Commencement 6
This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation. 7
Part 2 Purpose and advancing the 8
purpose 9
3 Purpose of Act 10
The purpose of this Act is to seek to achieve ecological 11
sustainability by-- 12
(a) managing the process by which development takes 13
place, including ensuring the process is accountable, 14
effective and efficient and delivers sustainable 15
outcomes; and 16
(b) managing the effects of development on the 17
environment, including managing the use of premises; 18
and 19
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(c) continuing the coordination and integration of planning 1
at the local, regional and State levels. 2
4 Advancing Act's purpose 3
(1) If, under this Act, a function or power is conferred on an 4
entity, the entity must-- 5
(a) unless paragraph (b) or (c) applies--perform the 6
function or exercise the power in a way that advances 7
this Act's purpose; or 8
(b) if the entity is an assessment manager other than a local 9
government--in assessing and deciding a matter under 10
this Act, have regard to this Act's purpose; or 11
(c) if the entity is a referral agency other than a local 12
government (unless the local government is acting as a 13
referral agency under devolved or delegated 14
powers)--in assessing and deciding a matter under this 15
Act, have regard to this Act's purpose. 16
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to code assessment or 17
compliance assessment under this Act. 18
5 What advancing Act's purpose includes 19
(1) Advancing this Act's purpose includes-- 20
(a) ensuring decision-making processes-- 21
(i) are accountable, coordinated, effective and 22
efficient; and 23
(ii) take account of short and long-term environmental 24
effects of development at local, regional, State and 25
wider levels, including, for example, the effects of 26
development on climate change; and 27
(iii) apply the precautionary principle; and 28
(iv) seek to provide for equity between present and 29
future generations; and 30
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(b) ensuring the sustainable use of renewable natural 1
resources and the prudent use of non-renewable natural 2
resources by, for example, considering alternatives to 3
the use of non-renewable natural resources; and 4
(c) avoiding, if practicable, or otherwise lessening, adverse 5
environmental effects of development, including, for 6
example-- 7
(i) climate change and urban congestion; and 8
(ii) adverse effects on human health; and 9
(d) considering housing choice and diversity, and economic 10
diversity; and 11
(e) supplying infrastructure in a coordinated, efficient and 12
orderly way, including encouraging urban development 13
in areas where adequate infrastructure exists or can be 14
provided efficiently; and 15
(f) applying standards of amenity, conservation, energy, 16
health and safety in the built environment that are 17
cost-effective and for the public benefit; and 18
(g) providing opportunities for community involvement in 19
decision making. 20
(2) For subsection (1)(a)(iii), the precautionary principle is the 21
principle that lack of full scientific certainty should not be 22
used as a reason for postponing a measure to prevent 23
degradation of the environment if there are threats of serious 24
or irreversible environmental damage. 25
(3) In this section-- 26
natural resources includes biological, energy, extractive, 27
land and water resources that are important to economic 28
development because of their contribution to employment 29
generation and wealth creation. 30
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Part 3 Interpretation 1
Division 1 Dictionary 2
6 Definitions 3
The dictionary in schedule 3 defines particular words used in 4
this Act. 5
Division 2 Key definitions 6
7 Meaning of development 7
Development is any of the following-- 8
(a) carrying out building work; 9
(b) carrying out plumbing or drainage work; 10
(c) carrying out operational work; 11
(d) reconfiguring a lot; 12
(e) making a material change of use of premises. 13
8 Meaning of ecological sustainability 14
Ecological sustainability is a balance that integrates-- 15
(a) protection of ecological processes and natural systems 16
at local, regional, State and wider levels; and 17
(b) economic development; and 18
(c) maintenance of the cultural, economic, physical and 19
social wellbeing of people and communities. 20
9 Meaning of lawful use 21
A use of premises is a lawful use of the premises if-- 22
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(a) the use is a natural and ordinary consequence of making 1
a material change of use of the premises; and 2
(b) the making of the material change of use was in 3
compliance with this Act. 4
Division 3 Supporting definitions and 5
explanations for key definitions 6
10 Definitions for terms used in development 7
(1) In this Act-- 8
building work-- 9
1 Building work means-- 10
(a) building, repairing, altering, underpinning 11
(whether by vertical or lateral support), moving or 12
demolishing a building or other structure; or 13
(b) work regulated under the building assessment 14
provisions, other than IDAS; or 15
(c) excavating or filling-- 16
(i) for, or incidental to, the activities mentioned 17
in paragraph (a); or 18
(ii) that may adversely affect the stability of a 19
building or other structure, whether on the 20
land on which the building or other structure 21
is situated or on adjoining land; or 22
(d) supporting (whether vertically or laterally) land for 23
activities mentioned in paragraph (a). 24
2 Building work, for administering IDAS in relation to a 25
Queensland heritage place, includes any of the 26
following-- 27
(a) altering, repairing, maintaining or moving a built, 28
natural or landscape feature on the place; 29
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(b) excavating, filling or other disturbances to land that 1
damage, expose or move archaeological artefacts, 2
as defined under the Queensland Heritage Act 3
1992, on the place; 4
(c) altering, repairing or removing artefacts that 5
contribute to the place's cultural heritage 6
significance, including, for example, furniture and 7
fittings; 8
(d) altering, repairing or removing building finishes 9
that contribute to the place's cultural heritage 10
significance, including, for example, paint, 11
wallpaper and plaster. 12
3 Building work, for administering IDAS in relation to a 13
Queensland heritage place, does not include 14
development for which an exemption certificate has 15
been issued under the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. 16
4 Building work does not include undertaking-- 17
(a) operations of any kind and all things constructed or 18
installed that allow taking or interfering with 19
water, other than using a water truck to pump 20
water, under the Water Act 2000; or 21
(b) tidal works; or 22
(c) work for reconfiguring a lot. 23
Example for paragraph (c)-- 24
building a retaining wall 25
lot means-- 26
(a) a lot under the Land Title Act 1994; or 27
(b) a separate, distinct parcel of land for which an interest is 28
recorded in a register under the Land Act 1994; or 29
(c) common property for a community titles scheme under 30
the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 31
1997; or 32
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(d) a lot or common property to which the Building Units 1
and Group Titles Act 1980 continues to apply; or 2
(e) a community or precinct thoroughfare under the Mixed 3
Use Development Act 1993; or 4
(f) a primary or secondary thoroughfare under the 5
Integrated Resort Development Act 1987 or the 6
Sanctuary Cove Resort Act 1985. 7
Note-- 8
The Building Units and Group Titles Act 1980 may continue to 9
apply to the following Acts-- 10
· Integrated Resort Development Act 1987 11
· Mixed Use Development Act 1993 12
· Registration of Plans (H.S.P. (Nominees) Pty. Limited) 13
Enabling Act 1980 14
· Registration of Plans (Stage 2) (H.S.P. (Nominees) 15
Pty. Limited) Enabling Act 1984 16
· Sanctuary Cove Resort Act 1985. 17
material change of use, of premises, means-- 18
(a) generally-- 19
(i) the start of a new use of the premises; or 20
(ii) the re-establishment on the premises of a use that 21
has been abandoned; or 22
(iii) a material increase in the intensity or scale of the 23
use of the premises; or 24
(b) for administering IDAS in relation to an 25
environmentally relevant activity, other than for a 26
mining activity, a chapter 5A activity or a mobile and 27
temporary environmentally relevant activity-- 28
(i) the start of a new environmentally relevant activity 29
on the premises; or 30
(ii) an increase in the threshold of an environmentally 31
relevant activity on the premises; or 32
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(iii) the re-establishment on the premises of an 1
environmentally relevant activity that has been 2
abandoned; or 3
(iv) a material increase in the intensity or scale of an 4
environmentally relevant activity on the premises; 5
or 6
(c) the continuation of an environmentally relevant activity 7
on the premises if-- 8
(i) an approval for the activity ceases to have effect 9
because of the operation of the Environmental 10
Protection Act, section 619(2)(e) or 624(2)(b); or 11
(ii) there is no development approval for the activity 12
and it was, at any time before 4 October 2004, 13
carried out without an environmental authority as 14
required under the Environmental Protection Act; 15
or 16
(d) the continuation on the premises, of an environmentally 17
relevant activity, carried out under an approval 18
mentioned in the Environmental Protection Act, section 19
624(1)(b); or 20
(e) the continuation of an activity on the premises, after the 21
activity becomes an environmentally relevant activity, 22
if-- 23
(i) there is no development approval for the activity; 24
and 25
(ii) the activity was, at any time before it became an 26
environmentally relevant activity, lawfully carried 27
out on the premises while there was no 28
development approval for the activity. 29
operational work-- 30
1 Operational work means-- 31
(a) extracting gravel, rock, sand or soil from the place 32
where it occurs naturally; or 33
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(b) conducting a forest practice; or 1
(c) excavating or filling that materially affects 2
premises or their use; or 3
(d) placing an advertising device on premises; or 4
(e) undertaking work in, on, over or under premises 5
that materially affects premises or their use; or 6
(f) clearing vegetation, including vegetation to which 7
the Vegetation Management Act applies; or 8
(g) undertaking operations of any kind and all things 9
constructed or installed that allow taking or 10
interfering with water, other than using a water 11
truck to pump water, under the Water Act 2000; or 12
(h) undertaking-- 13
(i) tidal works; or 14
(ii) work in a coastal management district; or 15
(i) constructing or raising waterway barrier works; or 16
(j) performing work in a declared fish habitat area; or 17
(k) removing, destroying or damaging a marine plant; 18
or 19
(l) undertaking roadworks on a local government 20
road. 21
2 Operational work does not include-- 22
(a) for item 1(a) to (f) and (j), any element of work 23
that is-- 24
(i) building work; or 25
(ii) drainage work; or 26
(iii) plumbing work; or 27
(b) clearing vegetation on-- 28
(i) a forest reserve under the Nature 29
Conservation Act 1992; or 30
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(ii) a protected area under the Nature 1
Conservation Act 1992, section 28; or 2
(iii) an area declared as a State forest or timber 3
reserve under the Forestry Act 1959; or 4
(iv) a forest entitlement area under the Land Act 5
1994. 6
reconfiguring a lot means-- 7
(a) creating lots by subdividing another lot; or 8
(b) amalgamating 2 or more lots; or 9
(c) rearranging the boundaries of a lot by registering a plan 10
of subdivision; or 11
(d) dividing land into parts by agreement rendering different 12
parts of a lot immediately available for separate 13
disposition or separate occupation, other than by an 14
agreement that is-- 15
(i) a lease for a term, including renewal options, not 16
exceeding 10 years; or 17
(ii) an agreement for the exclusive use of part of the 18
common property for a community titles scheme 19
under the Body Corporate and Community 20
Management Act 1997; or 21
(e) creating an easement giving access to a lot from a 22
constructed road. 23
(2) For the definition of building work in subsection (1), item 24
1(b), work includes a management procedure or other activity 25
relating to a building or structure even though the activity 26
does not involve a structural change to the building or 27
structure. 28
Example-- 29
a management procedure under the fire safety standard under the 30
Building Act relating to a budget accommodation building 31
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11 Explanation of terms used in ecological sustainability 1
For section 8-- 2
(a) ecological processes and natural systems are protected 3
if-- 4
(i) the life-supporting capacities of air, ecosystems, 5
soil and water are conserved, enhanced or restored 6
for present and future generations; and 7
(ii) biological diversity is protected; and 8
(b) economic development takes place if there are diverse, 9
efficient, resilient and strong economies (including 10
local, regional and State economies) enabling 11
communities to meet their present needs while not 12
compromising the ability of future generations to meet 13
their needs; and 14
(c) the cultural, economic, physical and social wellbeing of 15
people and communities is maintained if-- 16
(i) well-serviced and healthy communities with 17
affordable, efficient, safe and sustainable 18
development are created and maintained; and 19
(ii) areas and places of special aesthetic, architectural, 20
cultural, historic, scientific, social or spiritual 21
significance are conserved or enhanced; and 22
(iii) integrated networks of pleasant and safe public 23
areas for aesthetic enjoyment and cultural, 24
recreational or social interaction are provided; and 25
(iv) potential adverse impacts on climate change are 26
taken into account for development, and sought to 27
be addressed through sustainable development, 28
including, for example, sustainable settlement 29
patterns and sustainable urban design. 30
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Division 4 General matters 1
12 Meaning of words in Act prevail over planning 2
instruments 3
If a word in a planning instrument has a meaning that is 4
inconsistent with the meaning of the same word in this Act, 5
the meaning of the word in this Act prevails to the extent of 6
the inconsistency. 7
13 References in Act to particular terms 8
In a provision of this Act about a development application, a 9
reference to-- 10
(a) the applicant is a reference to the person who made the 11
application; and 12
(b) development, or the development, is a reference to 13
development the subject of the application; and 14
(c) the assessment manager is a reference to the assessment 15
manager for the application; and 16
(d) a referral agency, concurrence agency or advice agency 17
is a reference to a referral agency, concurrence agency 18
or advice agency for the application; and 19
(e) the local government is a reference to the local 20
government for the local government area where the 21
development is proposed; and 22
(f) an information request is a reference to an information 23
request for assessing the application; and 24
(g) the acknowledgement notice is a reference to the 25
acknowledgement notice for the application; and 26
(h) a referral agency's response is a reference to a referral 27
agency's response for the application; and 28
(i) the development approval is a reference to the 29
development approval for the application; and 30
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(j) the land is a reference to the land the subject of the 1
application; and 2
(k) the premises is a reference to the premises the subject of 3
the application; and 4
(l) the planning scheme is a reference to the planning 5
scheme for the locality where the development is 6
proposed; and 7
(m) a submitter is a reference to a submitter for the 8
application; and 9
(n) the decision notice or negotiated decision notice is a 10
reference to the decision notice or negotiated decision 11
notice for the application. 12
Part 4 Application of Act 13
14 Act binds all persons 14
(1) This Act binds all persons, including the State and, to the 15
extent the legislative power of the Parliament permits, the 16
Commonwealth and the other States. 17
(2) However, the Commonwealth or a State can not be prosecuted 18
for an offence against this Act. 19
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to the functions and powers of 20
the Coordinator-General under the State Development and 21
Public Works Organisation Act 1971. 22
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15 State planning instruments under Act 3
The following are State planning instruments under this Act-- 4
(a) a State planning regulatory provision; 5
(b) a regional plan; 6
(c) a State planning policy; 7
(d) the standard planning scheme provisions. 8
Part 2 State planning regulatory 9
provisions 10
Division 1 Preliminary 11
16 What is a State planning regulatory provision 12
(1) A State planning regulatory provision is an instrument made 13
under division 2 and part 6 for an area to advance the purpose 14
of this Act by-- 15
(a) providing regulatory support for regional planning or 16
master planning; or 17
(b) providing for a charge for the supply of infrastructure; 18
or 19
(c) protecting planning scheme areas from adverse impacts. 20
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(2) A State planning regulatory provision includes a draft State 1
planning regulatory provision that under section 73 has effect 2
as a State planning regulatory provision. 3
Note-- 4
See also section 858 (Transition of validated planning documents to 5
master planning documents). 6
17 Status of State planning regulatory provision 7
(1) A State planning regulatory provision is a statutory instrument 8
under the Statutory Instruments Act 1992 and has the force of 9
law as provided for under this Act. 10
(2) A State planning regulatory provision is not subordinate 11
legislation. 12
18 State interest 13
For this Act, a State planning regulatory provision is taken to 14
be a State interest. 15
19 Relationship with other instruments 16
(1) If there is an inconsistency between a State planning 17
regulatory provision and another planning instrument, or any 18
plan, policy or code under an Act, the State planning 19
regulatory provision prevails to the extent of the 20
inconsistency. 21
(2) A State planning regulatory provision may suspend or 22
otherwise affect the operation of another planning instrument, 23
but does not amend the planning instrument. 24
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Division 2 General matters about State 1
planning regulatory provisions 2
20 Power to make State planning regulatory provision 3
(1) The Minister may make a State planning regulatory provision 4
for the State or a part of the State (a relevant area) if the 5
Minister is satisfied the provision is necessary-- 6
(a) to implement a regional plan or a structure plan for a 7
declared master planned area; or 8
(b) to prevent a compromise of the implementation of-- 9
(i) a proposed regional plan for a designated region or 10
a proposed designated region; or 11
(ii) a structure plan or proposed structure plan for a 12
master planned area or a proposed master planned 13
area; or 14
(c) to provide for-- 15
(i) a regulated infrastructure charges schedule for the 16
supply of trunk infrastructure, under section 640; 17
or 18
(ii) a regulated State infrastructure charges schedule 19
for a master planned area, under section 667. 20
(2) The Minister also may make a State planning regulatory 21
provision if the Minister is satisfied-- 22
(a) there is a significant risk of serious environmental harm 23
or serious adverse cultural, economic or social 24
conditions happening in a planning scheme area; and 25
(b) giving a direction under section 126 would not be the 26
most appropriate way to address the risk. 27
(3) The Minister and an eligible Minister may jointly make a 28
State planning regulatory provision for the State or a part of 29
the State (also a relevant area) if-- 30
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(a) the matter to which the State planning regulatory 1
provision relates is a matter administered by the eligible 2
Minister; and 3
(b) the Minister is satisfied-- 4
(i) there is a significant risk of serious environmental 5
harm or serious adverse cultural, economic or 6
social conditions happening in a planning scheme 7
area; and 8
(ii) giving a direction under section 126 would not be 9
the most appropriate way to address the risk. 10
Note-- 11
Section 858 (Transition of validated planning documents to master 12
planning documents) also allows the making of State planning 13
regulatory provisions. 14
21 Content of State planning regulatory provision 15
A State planning regulatory provision may-- 16
(a) declare development to be-- 17
(i) self-assessable development; or 18
(ii) development requiring compliance assessment; or 19
(iii) assessable development; or 20
(iv) prohibited development; and 21
(b) require impact or code assessment, or both impact and 22
code assessment, for assessable development, including 23
assessable development mentioned in paragraph (a); and 24
(c) include a code for IDAS, or other criteria for the 25
assessment of development applications; and 26
(d) otherwise regulate development by, for example, stating 27
aspects of development that may not take place in stated 28
localities until-- 29
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(i) a stated structure plan within a planning scheme or 1
another stated planning instrument has been made; 2
or 3
(ii) a stated master plan has been approved; or 4
(iii) a stated development application has been 5
approved; and 6
(e) state transitional arrangements for development 7
applications or master plan applications affected by the 8
provision; and 9
(f) provide for a matter mentioned in section 20. 10
Note-- 11
For other matters that may be included in a State planning regulatory 12
provision, see chapter 6, part 10 (Compliance stage). 13
Part 3 Regional plans 14
Division 1 Preliminary 15
22 What is a designated region 16
(1) A designated region is-- 17
(a) the local government areas, or the parts of local 18
government areas, prescribed as a designated region 19
under a regulation; and 20
(b) Queensland waters adjacent to the local government 21
areas or parts. 22
(2) A regulation under subsection (1)(a) must give a name to each 23
designated region it prescribes. 24
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Division 2 Regional plans for designated 1
regions 2
Subdivision 1 Preliminary 3
23 What is a regional plan 4
A regional plan, for a designated region, is an instrument 5
that-- 6
(a) is made under subdivision 2 and part 6 by the regional 7
planning Minister for the region; and 8
(b) advances the purpose of this Act by providing an 9
integrated planning policy for the region. 10
24 Status of regional plan 11
A regional plan is a statutory instrument under the Statutory 12
Instruments Act 1992 and has the force of law as provided for 13
under this Act. 14
25 State interest 15
For this Act, a designated region's regional plan is taken to be 16
a State interest. 17
26 Relationship with other instruments 18
(1) This section does not apply to a State planning regulatory 19
provision. 20
(2) An entity responsible for preparing or amending a planning 21
instrument, or a plan, policy or code under an Act, that may 22
affect a matter under section 28 must-- 23
(a) in preparing the planning instrument, plan, policy or 24
code, or the amendment of the planning instrument, 25
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plan, policy or code, take account of the region's 1
regional plan; and 2
(b) state in the planning instrument, plan, policy or code 3
how the planning instrument, plan, policy or code, or the 4
amendment of the planning instrument, plan, policy or 5
code, will reflect the region's regional plan for the 6
matters under section 28. 7
(3) If there is an inconsistency between a regional plan and 8
another planning instrument or any other plan, policy or code 9
under an Act, the regional plan prevails to the extent of the 10
inconsistency. 11
Subdivision 2 Requirement to make, and key 12
elements of, regional plans 13
27 Requirement to make regional plan 14
The regional planning Minister for a designated region must 15
make a regional plan for the region. 16
28 Key elements of regional plan 17
The regional planning Minister for a designated region must 18
be satisfied its regional plan-- 19
(a) identifies-- 20
(i) the desired regional outcomes for the region; and 21
(ii) the policies and actions for achieving the desired 22
regional outcomes; and 23
(b) identifies the desired future spatial structure of the 24
region including-- 25
(i) a future regional land use pattern; and 26
(ii) provision for regional infrastructure to service the 27
future regional land use pattern, to inform-- 28
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(A) local governments when preparing priority 1
infrastructure plans; and 2
(B) the State, local governments and other 3
entities about infrastructure plans and 4
investments; and 5
(iii) key regional environmental, economic and cultural 6
resources to be preserved, maintained or 7
developed; and 8
(iv) the way the resources are to be preserved, 9
maintained or developed; and 10
(v) for paragraph (b)(iii), regional landscape areas; and 11
(c) includes any other relevant regional planning matter for 12
this Act. 13
Subdivision 3 Requirement to amend planning 14
schemes to reflect regional plans 15
29 Amending planning schemes to reflect regional plan 16
(1) This section applies to a local government if its local 17
government area or part of its area is prescribed under section 18
22(1) as a designated region, unless the regional planning 19
Minister for the region gives the local government a written 20
direction to the contrary. 21
(2) The local government must amend its planning scheme, under 22
the process stated in the guideline mentioned in section 23
117(1), to reflect the designated region's regional plan as 24
made, amended or replaced. 25
(3) The regional planning Minister for the designated region may 26
amend the planning scheme if-- 27
(a) the regional planning Minister is satisfied a local 28
government must amend its planning scheme under 29
subsection (2); and 30
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(b) the local government has not, within 90 business days 1
after the day notice of the making of the designated 2
region's regional plan was gazetted-- 3
(i) made the amendment; or 4
(ii) complied with the guideline mentioned in section 5
117(1) to the extent it requires the local 6
government to give the Minister a copy of the 7
proposed amendment. 8
(4) Anything done by the regional planning Minister under 9
subsection (3) is taken to have been done by the local 10
government and has the same effect as it would have had if 11
the local government had done it. 12
(5) An expense reasonably incurred by the regional planning 13
Minister in taking an action under subsection (3) may be 14
recovered from the local government as a debt owing to the 15
State. 16
(6) The regional planning Minister may, in writing, extend the 17
period mentioned in subsection (3)(b). 18
(7) Nothing in this section affects or is affected by chapter 3, part 19
6. 20
Division 3 Regional planning committees 21
30 What are regions 22
In this Act-- 23
(a) there are no fixed geographical areas of the State 24
constituting regions, other than designated regions; and 25
(b) a region may include the combined area of all or parts of 26
2 or more local government areas and an area not 27
included in a local government area. 28
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31 Establishment of regional planning committee 1
(1) The Minister may establish as many regional planning 2
committees as the Minister considers appropriate. 3
(2) The regional planning Minister for a designated region must 4
establish a regional planning committee for the region. 5
(3) However, subsection (4) applies if-- 6
(a) there is a regional planning committee for a region that 7
is not a designated region; and 8
(b) the area covered by the region is the same or 9
substantially the same as a designated region. 10
(4) The regional planning committee for the region is taken to be 11
the regional planning committee established for the 12
designated region. 13
(5) Before establishing a regional planning committee for a 14
region that is not a designated region, the Minister must-- 15
(a) prepare draft terms of reference for the proposed 16
committee; and 17
(b) identify the proposed region and local governments 18
likely to be affected by the advice of the proposed 19
committee; and 20
(c) consult with the local governments and interest groups 21
the Minister considers appropriate about-- 22
(i) the draft terms of reference, including the term of 23
the proposed committee; and 24
(ii) the membership of the proposed committee; and 25
(iii) the extent of their, the Commonwealth's and the 26
State's, proposed participation in, and support for, 27
the proposed committee. 28
(6) In establishing a regional planning committee for a region that 29
is not a designated region, the Minister must state-- 30
(a) the committee's name; and 31
(b) the membership of the committee; and 32
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(c) the area covered by the region for which the committee 1
is established; and 2
(d) the committee's terms of reference. 3
32 Functions of regional planning committee 4
(1) The functions of a regional planning committee for a region 5
that is not a designated region are the functions stated in the 6
committee's terms of reference. 7
(2) The function of a designated region's regional planning 8
committee is to advise the regional planning Minister for the 9
region about the development and implementation of the 10
region's regional plan. 11
33 Membership of regional planning committee 12
(1) A designated region's regional planning committee has the 13
membership decided by the regional planning Minister for the 14
region and notified in the gazette. 15
(2) A member of a designated region's regional planning 16
committee must be-- 17
(a) a Minister; or 18
(b) a mayor or councillor of a local government of the 19
region; or 20
(c) a person who has the appropriate qualifications, 21
experience or standing to be a member of the 22
committee. 23
(3) However, this section does not apply if section 31(4) applies 24
to the designated region. 25
(4) The membership of a regional planning committee for a 26
region that is not a designated region-- 27
(a) may be identified in general or specific terms; and 28
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(b) without limiting the scope of possible membership, 1
must include representatives of appropriate local 2
governments. 3
(5) However, a local government may elect not to be represented 4
on a regional planning committee for a region that is not a 5
designated region. 6
34 Changing particular committee 7
After consulting the regional planning committee for a region 8
that is not a designated region and any other entities the 9
Minister considers appropriate, the Minister may change any 10
aspect of the committee, including, for example, its name, 11
membership, region and terms of reference. 12
35 Dissolution of regional planning committee 13
(1) The Minister may dissolve the regional planning committee 14
for a region that is not a designated region at any time. 15
(2) The regional planning Minister for a designated region may 16
dissolve its regional planning committee at any time. 17
36 Quorum 18
A quorum for a meeting of a regional planning committee is 1 19
more than half the number of members of the committee. 20
37 Presiding at meetings 21
(1) The regional planning Minister for a designated region 22
presides at all meetings of its regional planning committee. 23
(2) If the regional planning Minister for the designated region is 24
absent, the member nominated by the regional planning 25
Minister must preside. 26
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38 Conduct of meetings 1
(1) Meetings of a designated region's regional planning 2
committee must be conducted at the time and place the 3
regional planning Minister for the region decides. 4
(2) A regional planning committee must conduct its business and 5
proceedings at meetings in the way it decides. 6
39 Reports of particular committee 7
A regional planning committee for a region that is not a 8
designated region must report its findings under its terms of 9
reference to the Minister and the local governments of its 10
region. 11
Part 4 State planning policies 12
Division 1 Preliminary 13
40 What is a State planning policy 14
A State planning policy is an instrument that-- 15
(a) is made under division 2 and part 6, or division 3; and 16
(b) advances the purpose of this Act by stating the State's 17
policy about a matter of State interest. 18
41 Status of State planning policy 19
A State planning policy is a statutory instrument under the 20
Statutory Instruments Act 1992 and has the force of law as 21
provided for under this Act. 22
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42 Area to which State planning policy applies 1
A State planning policy has effect throughout the State unless 2
the policy states otherwise. 3
43 Relationship with local planning instruments 4
If there is an inconsistency between a State planning policy 5
and a local planning instrument, the State planning policy 6
prevails to the extent of the inconsistency. 7
Division 2 General matters about State 8
planning policies 9
44 Power to make State planning policy--generally 10
(1) The Minister may, under part 6, make a State planning policy. 11
(2) Also, the Minister and an eligible Minister may, under part 6, 12
jointly make a State planning policy if the State interest 13
addressed by the policy is a matter administered by the 14
eligible Minister. 15
45 Duration of State planning policy made under pt 6 16
(1) A State planning policy mentioned in section 44 ceases to 17
have effect on-- 18
(a) the day the policy is repealed under part 6; or 19
(b) the day that is 10 years after the day the policy had 20
effect. 21
(2) Despite subsection (1)(b), if a day for the ending of the State 22
planning policy is prescribed under a regulation made before 23
the period mentioned in the subsection ends, the policy ends 24
on the prescribed day. 25
(3) The prescribed day must not be more than 12 years after the 26
day the State planning policy had effect. 27
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Division 3 Temporary State planning policies 1
46 Power to make temporary State planning policy 2
(1) The Minister may, under section 47, make a State planning 3
policy (a temporary State planning policy) if the Minister 4
considers the policy is urgently required to protect or give 5
effect to a State interest. 6
(2) Also, the Minister and an eligible Minister may, under section 7
47, jointly make a State planning policy (also a temporary 8
State planning policy) if-- 9
(a) the State interest addressed by the policy is a matter 10
administered by the eligible Minister; and 11
(b) the Minister considers the policy is urgently required to 12
protect or give effect to the State interest. 13
(3) Part 6, divisions 1 to 3, do not apply to the making of a 14
temporary State planning policy. 15
47 Making temporary State planning policy 16
(1) The Minister, or the Minister and an eligible Minister jointly, 17
may make a temporary State planning policy by publishing a 18
notice about the policy-- 19
(a) in the gazette; and 20
(b) if the policy is to have effect throughout the State--in a 21
newspaper circulating generally in the State; and 22
(c) if the policy is to have effect only in a part of the 23
State--in a newspaper circulating generally in the part. 24
(2) If the Minister and an eligible Minister propose to jointly 25
make a temporary State planning policy, the policy is validly 26
made if-- 27
(a) the eligible Minister publishes a notice about the policy 28
under subsection (1); and 29
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(b) the policy is endorsed by the Minister and the eligible 1
Minister before the eligible Minister publishes the 2
notice. 3
(3) The notice mentioned in subsection (1) must state the 4
following-- 5
(a) the name of the State planning policy; 6
(b) if the policy applies only to a particular part of the 7
State--the name of the part or other information 8
necessary to adequately describe the part; 9
(c) the period for which the policy has effect; 10
(d) where a copy of the policy may be inspected and 11
purchased. 12
48 Effect of temporary State planning policy 13
A temporary State planning policy may suspend or otherwise 14
affect the operation of a State planning policy, but does not 15
amend the State planning policy. 16
49 Duration of temporary State planning policy 17
A temporary State planning policy has effect for-- 18
(a) 1 year after the day it is made; or 19
(b) if the policy states a lesser period of effect--the lesser 20
period. 21
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Part 5 Standard planning scheme 1
provisions 2
Division 1 Preliminary 3
50 What are standard planning scheme provisions 4
The standard planning scheme provisions are the provisions 5
that-- 6
(a) are made under division 2 and part 6 by the Minister; 7
and 8
(b) advance the purpose of this Act by providing for-- 9
(i) a consistent structure for planning schemes; and 10
(ii) standard provisions for implementing integrated 11
planning at the local level. 12
51 Status of standard planning scheme provisions 13
The instrument consisting of the standard planning scheme 14
provisions is a statutory instrument under the Statutory 15
Instruments Act 1992 and has the force of law as provided for 16
under this Act. 17
52 Effect of standard planning scheme provisions 18
The standard planning scheme provisions do not regulate or 19
affect development unless, under section 53, the provisions 20
have effect in a planning scheme area. 21
53 Relationship with local planning instruments 22
If a local planning instrument for a planning scheme area is 23
inconsistent with the standard planning scheme provisions, 24
the standard planning scheme provisions-- 25
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(a) prevail to the extent of the inconsistency; and 1
(b) have effect in place of the local planning instrument, but 2
only to the extent of the inconsistency and to the extent 3
the instrument applies in the planning scheme area. 4
Division 2 General matters about standard 5
planning scheme provisions 6
54 Power to make standard planning scheme provisions 7
The Minister may make standard planning scheme provisions 8
for the whole of the State. 9
55 Local governments to amend planning schemes to reflect 10
standard planning scheme provisions 11
(1) A local government must ensure each of its local planning 12
instruments is consistent with the standard planning scheme 13
provisions. 14
(2) If the standard planning scheme provisions are amended, the 15
local government must amend its planning scheme under the 16
process stated in the guideline mentioned in section 117(1) to 17
reflect the standard planning scheme provisions as amended. 18
(3) The Minister may amend the planning scheme if-- 19
(a) the Minister is satisfied a local government must amend 20
its planning scheme under subsection (2); and 21
(b) the local government has not, within 90 business days 22
after the day notice of the making of the amended 23
standard planning scheme provisions was gazetted-- 24
(i) made the amendment; or 25
(ii) complied with the guideline mentioned in section 26
117(1) to the extent it requires the local 27
government to give the Minister a copy of the 28
proposed amendment. 29
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(4) Anything done by the Minister under subsection (3) is taken 1
to have been done by the local government and has the same 2
effect as it would have had if the local government had done 3
it. 4
(5) An expense reasonably incurred by the Minister in taking an 5
action under subsection (3) may be recovered from the local 6
government as a debt owing to the State. 7
(6) The Minister may, in writing, extend the period mentioned in 8
subsection (3)(b). 9
(7) Subsection (2) does not apply to a local government if, under 10
section 129, the Minister amends the local government's 11
planning scheme to reflect the standard planning scheme 12
provisions as amended. 13
(8) Subject to subsection (7), nothing in this section affects or is 14
affected by chapter 3, part 6. 15
Part 6 Making, amending and 16
repealing State planning 17
instruments 18
Division 1 Preliminary 19
56 Process for making, amending or repealing State 20
planning instrument 21
(1) The process stated in this part must be followed for making, 22
amending or repealing a State planning instrument. 23
(2) A regulation may state an additional requirement to be 24
followed for making, amending or repealing a State planning 25
instrument. 26
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(3) If a regulation under subsection (2) states an additional 1
requirement, the requirement must be complied with. 2
57 Compliance with divs 2 and 3 3
Despite divisions 2 and 3, if a State planning instrument is 4
made or amended in substantial compliance with the process 5
stated in the divisions, the State planning instrument or 6
amendment is valid so long as any noncompliance has not-- 7
(a) adversely affected the awareness of the public of the 8
existence and nature of the proposed State planning 9
instrument or amendment; or 10
(b) restricted the opportunity of the public to make properly 11
made submissions about the proposed instrument or 12
amendment under the process stated in the divisions. 13
Division 2 Process for making State planning 14
instruments 15
58 Preparation of draft instrument 16
(1) Before making a State planning instrument, the Minister must 17
prepare a draft of the proposed instrument. 18
(2) In preparing a draft regional plan, the regional planning 19
Minister must consult with the region's regional planning 20
committee about preparing the draft. 21
(3) In subsection (1)-- 22
Minister means-- 23
(a) if the State planning instrument is to be jointly made by 24
the Minister and an eligible Minister--the eligible 25
Minister; or 26
(b) otherwise--the Minister proposing to make the State 27
planning instrument. 28
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59 Endorsing particular draft instrument 1
(1) Subsection (2) applies if a draft State planning regulatory 2
provision or State planning policy is prepared by an eligible 3
Minister. 4
(2) The Minister and the eligible Minister must endorse the 5
instrument before the eligible Minister acts under section 60. 6
60 Notice about draft instrument 7
(1) The Minister who prepared the draft State planning 8
instrument must publish a notice-- 9
(a) in the gazette; and 10
(b) if the draft instrument is to have effect throughout the 11
State or is made for the whole of the State--in a 12
newspaper circulating generally in the State; and 13
(c) if the draft instrument is to have effect only in a part of 14
the State--in a newspaper circulating generally in the 15
part. 16
(2) The notice must state the following-- 17
(a) that the draft State planning instrument is available for 18
inspection and purchase; 19
(b) where copies of the draft instrument may be inspected 20
and purchased; 21
(c) a contact telephone number for information about the 22
draft instrument; 23
(d) that written submissions about any aspect of the draft 24
instrument may be given by any person to the Minister 25
who prepared the draft; 26
(e) the period (the consultation period) during which the 27
submissions may be made; 28
(f) the requirements for a properly made submission. 29
(3) The consultation period must be for at least-- 30
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(a) for a draft regional plan--60 business days after the day 1
the notice is gazetted; or 2
(b) for a draft State planning regulatory provision--30 3
business days after the day the notice is gazetted; or 4
(c) otherwise--40 business days after the day the notice is 5
gazetted. 6
(4) The Minister who prepared the draft State planning 7
instrument must give a copy of the notice and the draft 8
instrument to each of the following-- 9
(a) for a draft State planning instrument other than draft 10
standard planning scheme provisions--each local 11
government whose local government area includes a 12
part of the State in which the draft instrument is to have 13
effect; 14
(b) for draft standard planning scheme provisions--each 15
local government; 16
(c) any other person or entity prescribed under a regulation. 17
61 Keeping draft instrument available for inspection and 18
purchase 19
For all of the consultation period, the Minister who prepared 20
the draft State planning instrument must keep a copy of the 21
draft instrument available for inspection and purchase by 22
members of the public. 23
62 Dealing with draft State planning regulatory provision 24
(1) The Minister who prepared a draft State planning regulatory 25
provision may, during the consultation period, amend, replace 26
or remove the draft State planning regulatory provision, other 27
than to change the relevant area. 28
(2) If an eligible Minister prepared the draft State planning 29
regulatory provision, an amended or replacement instrument 30
must be endorsed by the eligible Minister and the Minister. 31
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63 Making State planning instruments 1
(1) The Minister who prepared the draft State planning 2
instrument must-- 3
(a) consider each properly made submission about the draft 4
instrument; and 5
(b) for a draft regional plan for a designated 6
region--consult with the designated region's regional 7
planning committee about making the regional plan. 8
(2) After acting under subsection (1), the Minister may-- 9
(a) make the State planning instrument as provided for in 10
the draft State planning instrument as published; or 11
(b) make the State planning instrument and include any 12
amendments of the draft State planning instrument the 13
Minister considers appropriate; or 14
(c) for a State planning instrument other than a regional 15
plan--decide not to make the State planning instrument 16
as mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b). 17
(3) If an eligible Minister prepared the draft State planning 18
instrument, the eligible Minister and the Minister must 19
jointly-- 20
(a) make the State planning instrument as mentioned in 21
subsection (2)(a) or (b); or 22
(b) decide not to make the State planning instrument. 23
(4) A State planning instrument is taken to be jointly made when 24
the instrument is endorsed by both Ministers. 25
64 Notice about making State planning instrument 26
(1) After the State planning instrument is made, the Minister who 27
prepared the draft instrument must publish a notice about its 28
making-- 29
(a) in the gazette; and 30
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(b) if the instrument has effect throughout the State or is 1
made for the whole of the State--in a newspaper 2
circulating generally in the State; and 3
(c) if the instrument has effect only in a part of the 4
State--in a newspaper circulating generally in the part. 5
(2) The notice must state-- 6
(a) the day the State planning instrument was made; and 7
(b) where a copy of the instrument may be inspected and 8
purchased. 9
(3) The Minister mentioned in subsection (1) must give a copy of 10
the State planning instrument to-- 11
(a) for a State planning instrument other than the standard 12
planning scheme provisions--each local government 13
whose local government area includes a part of the State 14
in which the instrument has effect; or 15
(b) for the standard planning scheme provisions--each 16
local government. 17
65 Notice about decision not to make State planning 18
instrument 19
If a decision is made not to make a State planning instrument, 20
the Minister who prepared the draft instrument must publish 21
notice of the decision in the gazette. 22
66 Particular State planning regulatory provisions to 23
be ratified by Parliament 24
(1) This section applies to a State planning regulatory provision 25
made to-- 26
(a) implement a regional plan; or 27
(b) prevent a compromise of the implementation of a 28
proposed regional plan for a designated region or a 29
proposed designated region. 30
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(2) Within 14 sitting days after the State planning regulatory 1
provision is made, a copy of the provision must be tabled in 2
the Legislative Assembly by the Minister who made the State 3
planning regulatory provision. 4
(3) If the provision is not ratified by Parliament within 14 sitting 5
days after the day the copy is tabled, the provision ceases to 6
have effect. 7
67 State planning regulatory provisions that are subject to 8
disallowance 9
(1) This section applies to a State planning regulatory provision 10
made because the Minister was satisfied there is a significant 11
risk of serious environmental harm or serious adverse cultural, 12
economic or social conditions happening in a planning 13
scheme area. 14
(2) The Statutory Instruments Act 1992, sections 49, 50 and 51, 15
apply to the provision as if it were subordinate legislation. 16
Editor's note-- 17
Statutory Instruments Act 1992, sections 49 (Subordinate legislation 18
must be tabled), 50 (Disallowance) and 51 (Limited saving of operation 19
of subordinate legislation that ceases to have effect) 20
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Division 3 Amending State planning 1
instruments 2
Subdivision 1 Administrative and minor 3
amendments, and particular 4
amendments to reflect documents 5
68 Administrative and minor amendment or amendment to 6
reflect other documents 7
(1) The Minister who made a State planning instrument may 8
make an administrative amendment or minor amendment of 9
the instrument. 10
(2) If the State planning instrument was jointly made by 2 11
Ministers-- 12
(a) for an administrative amendment--either Minister may 13
make the amendment; and 14
(b) for a minor amendment-- 15
(i) the amendment must be jointly made by both 16
Ministers; and 17
(ii) the amendment is taken to be jointly made when 18
the amendment is endorsed by both Ministers. 19
(3) The regional planning Minister for a designated region also 20
may amend the region's regional plan to include a document 21
to be made under the plan that-- 22
(a) has been prepared by a public sector entity; and 23
(b) the regional planning Minister is satisfied-- 24
(i) demonstrates how the regional plan will be 25
implemented; and 26
(ii) has been subject to adequate public consultation. 27
(4) Division 2 does not apply to the making of an amendment 28
under this section. 29
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69 Notice of amendment under s 68 1
(1) After the State planning instrument is amended, the Minister 2
who made the amendment, or the eligible Minister if the 3
amendment was jointly made, must publish a notice about the 4
amendment-- 5
(a) in the gazette; and 6
(b) if the instrument has effect throughout the State or is 7
made for the whole of the State--in a newspaper 8
circulating generally in the State; and 9
(c) if the instrument has effect only in a part of the 10
State--in a newspaper circulating generally in the part. 11
(2) The notice must state-- 12
(a) the day the amendment was made; and 13
(b) where a copy of the State planning instrument, as 14
amended, may be inspected and purchased. 15
Subdivision 2 Other amendments 16
70 Other amendments 17
(1) The Minister who made a State planning instrument may 18
make an amendment of the instrument, other than an 19
amendment under section 68, only if the process under 20
division 2 for the making of the State planning instrument has 21
been followed. 22
(2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that if the State planning 23
instrument was jointly made by 2 Ministers, the amendment 24
must be jointly made by both Ministers. 25
(3) For subsection (1), division 2 applies-- 26
(a) as if a reference in the division to preparing a draft State 27
planning instrument were a reference to preparing a 28
draft amendment; and 29
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(b) as if a reference in the division to a draft State planning 1
instrument were a reference to the draft amendment; and 2
(c) as if a reference in the division to making a State 3
planning instrument were a reference to the making of 4
the amendment; and 5
(d) as if a reference in the division to a State planning 6
instrument were a reference to the amendment; and 7
(e) as if the reference in section 60(3)(a) to 60 business days 8
were a reference to 30 business days; and 9
(f) as if the reference in section 60(3)(c) to 40 business days 10
were a reference to 20 business days; and 11
(g) with other necessary changes. 12
71 Decision not to proceed with amendment of regional plan 13
When acting under division 2, the Minister also may decide 14
not to proceed with the amendment of a regional plan. 15
Division 4 When State planning instrument or 16
amendment has effect 17
72 When State planning instrument or amendment has 18
effect 19
(1) A State planning instrument, or an amendment of a State 20
planning instrument, has effect on-- 21
(a) the day the notice about the making of the instrument or 22
amendment is gazetted; or 23
(b) if a later day for the commencement of the instrument or 24
amendment is stated in the instrument or 25
amendment--the later day. 26
(2) Subsection (1) is subject to sections 66 and 67. 27
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73 Effect of draft State planning regulatory provision and 1
draft amendments 2
(1) This section applies to-- 3
(a) a draft State planning regulatory provision under this 4
part (the draft provision); or 5
(b) a State planning regulatory provision as amended by a 6
draft amendment of the provision under this part (also 7
the draft provision). 8
(2) The Minister may state in the gazette notice for the draft 9
instrument, or amendment, that the draft provision has effect 10
as if it were a State planning regulatory provision on the day 11
the notice of the draft instrument, or amendment, is gazetted if 12
the Minister is satisfied any delay in the commencement 13
would increase the risk of-- 14
(a) serious harm to the environment or serious adverse 15
cultural, economic or social conditions happening in a 16
planning scheme area; or 17
(b) compromising the implementation of a regional plan, 18
structure plan or proposed regional plan or structure 19
plan. 20
(3) If the Minister states a draft provision has effect as mentioned 21
in subsection (2), the draft provision has effect as if it were a 22
State planning regulatory provision from the day the notice of 23
the draft instrument, or amendment, is gazetted until the first 24
of the following happens-- 25
(a) a decision to make a State planning regulatory provision 26
is made under section 63(2)(a) or (b) relating to the draft 27
provision and the State planning regulatory provision 28
takes effect under section 72; 29
(b) a decision not to make a State planning regulatory 30
provision is made under section 63(2)(c) relating to the 31
draft provision and is gazetted; 32
(c) the day that is 12 months after the day the notice of the 33
draft instrument, or amendment, is gazetted ends. 34
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Division 5 Repealing and replacing State 1
planning instruments 2
74 Notice of repeal 3
(1) The Minister may decide to repeal a State planning 4
instrument, other than a regional plan. 5
(2) However, if the State planning instrument was jointly made by 6
2 Ministers, the decision to repeal the instrument must be 7
jointly made by both Ministers. 8
(3) A State planning instrument may only be repealed by 9
publishing a notice-- 10
(a) in the gazette; and 11
(b) if the instrument has effect throughout the State or is 12
made for the whole of the State--in a newspaper 13
circulating generally in the State; and 14
(c) if the instrument has effect only in a part of the 15
State--in a newspaper circulating generally in the part. 16
(4) The notice must-- 17
(a) identify the State planning instrument being repealed; 18
and 19
(b) if the State planning instrument has effect only in a part 20
of the State--identify the part of the State in which it 21
has effect; and 22
(c) state that the State planning instrument is repealed. 23
(5) The Minister must give a copy of the notice to-- 24
(a) for a State planning instrument other than the standard 25
planning scheme provisions--each local government 26
whose local government area includes a part of the State 27
in which the instrument had effect; and 28
(b) for the standard planning scheme provisions--each 29
local government. 30
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(6) If the State planning instrument was jointly made by the 1
Minister and an eligible Minister, the eligible Minister must 2
act under subsections (3) and (5) in relation to the repeal of 3
the instrument. 4
75 When repeal has effect 5
The repeal of a State planning instrument has effect on the day 6
the notice of the repeal is gazetted. 7
76 Replacement of regional plans 8
If a regional plan (the replacement plan) states that it replaces 9
an existing regional plan, it replaces the existing regional plan 10
on and from the day the replacement plan takes effect. 11
Chapter 3 Local planning instruments 12
Part 1 Preliminary 13
77 Local planning instruments under Act 14
The following are local planning instruments under this Act-- 15
(a) a planning scheme; 16
(b) a temporary local planning instrument; 17
(c) a planning scheme policy. 18
78 Infrastructure intentions in local planning instruments 19
not binding 20
(1) If a local planning instrument indicates the intention of a local 21
government or a supplier of State infrastructure to supply 22
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infrastructure, it does not create an obligation on the local 1
government or the supplier to supply the infrastructure. 2
(2) If a local government or a supplier of State infrastructure 3
states a desired standard of service in a priority infrastructure 4
plan, an entity does not have a right to expect or demand the 5
standard. 6
Part 2 Planning schemes 7
Division 1 Preliminary 8
79 What is a planning scheme 9
A planning scheme is an instrument that-- 10
(a) is made by a local government under division 2 and part 11
5; and 12
(b) advances the purpose of this Act by providing an 13
integrated planning policy for the local government's 14
planning scheme area. 15
80 Status of planning scheme 16
A planning scheme is a statutory instrument under the 17
Statutory Instruments Act 1992 and has the force of law as 18
provided for under this Act. 19
81 Effects of planning scheme 20
A planning scheme for a planning scheme area-- 21
(a) becomes the planning scheme for the area; and 22
(b) replaces any existing planning scheme applying to the 23
area. 24
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82 Area to which planning scheme applies 1
(1) A local government's planning scheme applies to all of the 2
local government's area (the planning scheme area). 3
(2) The local government also may apply its planning scheme for 4
assessing prescribed tidal work in its tidal area to the extent 5
stated in a code for prescribed tidal work. 6
83 Relationship with planning scheme policies 7
If there is an inconsistency between a planning scheme and a 8
planning scheme policy for a planning scheme area, the 9
planning scheme prevails to the extent of the inconsistency. 10
Note-- 11
For the relationship between planning schemes and State planning 12
instruments, see sections 19 (Relationship with other instruments), 26 13
(Relationship with other instruments), 43 (Relationship with local 14
planning instruments) and 53 (Relationship with local planning 15
instruments). 16
Division 2 General provisions about planning 17
schemes 18
84 Power to make planning scheme 19
A local government may make a planning scheme for its 20
planning scheme area. 21
85 Documents planning scheme may adopt 22
(1) The only documents made by a local government that the 23
local government's planning scheme may, under the Statutory 24
Instruments Act 1992, section 23, apply, adopt or incorporate 25
are-- 26
(a) a planning scheme policy; or 27
(b) a structure plan; or 28
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(c) a priority infrastructure plan; or 1
(d) an infrastructure charges schedule. 2
(2) In this section-- 3
documents does not include the following-- 4
(a) a development approval; 5
(b) a master plan; 6
(c) an approval for an application mentioned in repealed 7
IPA, section 6.1.26. 8
86 Relationship between planning schemes and Building 9
Act 10
(1) A planning scheme must not include provisions about 11
building work, to the extent the building work is regulated 12
under the building assessment provisions, unless permitted 13
under the Building Act. 14
Note-- 15
See, for example, the Building Act, sections 32 and 33. 16
(2) To the extent a planning scheme does not comply with 17
subsection (1), the planning scheme has no effect. 18
(3) In this section-- 19
building assessment provisions does not include IDAS or a 20
provision of a planning scheme. 21
87 Covenants not to conflict with planning scheme 22
Subject to section 349, a covenant under the Land Act 1994, 23
section 373A(4) or the Land Title Act 1994, section 97A(3)(a) 24
or (b) is of no effect to the extent it conflicts with a planning 25
scheme-- 26
(a) for the land subject to the covenant; and 27
(b) in effect when the document creating the covenant is 28
registered. 29
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Land Act 1994, section 373A (Covenant by registration) or Land Title 2
Act 1994, section 97A (Covenant by registration) 3
Division 3 Key concepts for planning schemes 4
88 Key elements of planning scheme 5
(1) A local government and the Minister must be satisfied the 6
local government's planning scheme-- 7
(a) appropriately reflects the standard planning scheme 8
provisions; and 9
(b) identifies the strategic outcomes for the planning 10
scheme area; and 11
(c) includes measures that facilitate achieving the strategic 12
outcomes; and 13
(d) coordinates and integrates the matters, including the 14
core matters, dealt with by the planning scheme, 15
including any State and regional dimensions of the 16
matters; and 17
Note-- 18
State and regional dimensions of matters are explained in section 19
90. 20
(e) includes a priority infrastructure plan; and 21
(f) if land in the planning scheme area is a declared master 22
planned area--includes a structure plan for the master 23
planned area. 24
(2) Measures facilitating achievement of the strategic outcomes 25
include the identification of relevant-- 26
(a) self-assessable development; and 27
(b) development requiring compliance assessment; and 28
(c) assessable development requiring code or impact 29
assessment, or both code and impact assessment; and 30
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(d) prohibited development, but only if the standard 1
planning scheme provisions state the development may 2
be prohibited development. 3
89 Core matters for planning scheme 4
(1) Each of the following are core matters for the preparation of a 5
planning scheme-- 6
(a) land use and development; 7
(b) infrastructure; 8
(c) valuable features. 9
(2) In this section-- 10
infrastructure includes the extent and location of proposed 11
infrastructure, having regard to existing infrastructure 12
networks, and their capacities and thresholds for 13
augmentation. 14
land use and development includes each of the following-- 15
(a) the location of, and the relationships between, various 16
land uses; 17
(b) the effects of land use and development; 18
(c) how mobility between places is facilitated; 19
(d) accessibility to areas; 20
(e) development constraints, including, but not limited to, 21
population and demographic impacts. 22
valuable features includes each of the following, whether 23
terrestrial or aquatic-- 24
(a) resources or areas that are of ecological significance, 25
including, for example, habitats, wildlife corridors, 26
buffer zones, places supporting biological diversity or 27
resilience, and features contributing to the quality of air, 28
water (including catchments or recharge areas) and soil; 29
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(b) areas contributing significantly to amenity, including, 1
for example, areas of high scenic value, physical 2
features that form significant visual backdrops or that 3
frame or define places or localities, and attractive built 4
environments; 5
(c) areas or places of cultural heritage significance, 6
including, for example, areas or places of indigenous 7
cultural significance, or aesthetic, architectural, 8
historical, scientific, social or technological 9
significance, to the present generation or past or future 10
generations; 11
(d) resources or areas of economic value, including, for 12
example, extractive deposits, fishery resources, forestry 13
resources, water resources, sources of renewable and 14
non-renewable energy and good quality agricultural 15
land. 16
90 State, regional and local dimensions of planning scheme 17
matters 18
(1) A matter, including a core matter, in a planning scheme may 19
have local, regional or State dimensions. 20
(2) A local dimension of a planning scheme matter is a dimension 21
that is within the jurisdiction of local government but is not a 22
regional or State dimension. 23
(3) A regional dimension of a planning scheme matter is a 24
dimension-- 25
(a) about which a regional planning committee report 26
makes a recommendation; or 27
(b) reflected in a regional plan; or 28
(c) that can best be dealt with by the cooperation of 2 or 29
more local governments. 30
(4) A State dimension of a planning scheme matter, including a 31
matter reflected in a State planning policy, is a dimension of a 32
State interest. 33
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Division 4 Reviewing planning schemes 1
91 Local government must review planning scheme every 2
10 years 3
(1) Each local government must complete a review of its planning 4
scheme-- 5
(a) within 10 years after the planning scheme was originally 6
made; or 7
(b) if a review of the planning scheme has been previously 8
completed--within 10 years after the completion of the 9
last review. 10
(2) The review must include an assessment of the achievement of 11
the strategic outcomes stated in the planning scheme. 12
92 Action local government may take after review 13
After reviewing its planning scheme, the local government 14
must, by resolution-- 15
(a) propose to prepare a new scheme; or 16
(b) propose to amend the scheme; or 17
(c) if the local government is satisfied the scheme is 18
suitable to continue without amendment--decide to take 19
no further action. 20
93 Report about review if decision is to take no action 21
If a local government decides to take no further action under 22
section 92(c), the local government must-- 23
(a) prepare a report stating the reasons why the local 24
government decided to take no further action; and 25
(b) give a copy of the report to the chief executive. 26
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94 Notice about report to be published 1
(1) After preparing the report mentioned in section 93, the local 2
government must publish, in a newspaper circulating 3
generally in the local government's area, a notice stating the 4
following-- 5
(a) the name of the local government; 6
(b) that the local government has prepared a report stating 7
the reasons why the local government decided to take no 8
further action under section 92(c); 9
(c) that the report is available for inspection and purchase; 10
(d) a contact telephone number for information about the 11
report; 12
(e) the period (the inspection period), of at least 40 13
business days, during which the report is available for 14
inspection and purchase. 15
(2) For all of the inspection period the local government must 16
display a copy of the notice in a conspicuous place in the local 17
government's public office. 18
Division 5 Application of superseded planning 19
schemes 20
95 Request for application of superseded planning scheme 21
(1) A person may, by written notice given to a local government, 22
ask the local government-- 23
(a) to apply a superseded planning scheme to the carrying 24
out of assessable development, prohibited development 25
or development requiring compliance assessment that 26
was, under the superseded planning scheme, exempt 27
development or self-assessable development; or 28
(b) to assess and decide a proposed development 29
application under a superseded planning scheme; or 30
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(c) to-- 1
(i) accept a development application for development 2
that is prohibited development under the planning 3
scheme and was assessable development under a 4
superseded planning scheme; and 5
(ii) assess and decide the application under the 6
superseded planning scheme; or 7
(d) to assess and decide a request for compliance 8
assessment under a superseded planning scheme; or 9
(e) to-- 10
(i) accept a request for compliance assessment of 11
development that is assessable development or 12
prohibited development, and was development 13
requiring compliance assessment under a 14
superseded planning scheme; and 15
(ii) assess and decide the request under the superseded 16
planning scheme. 17
(2) However, the notice may be given to the local government 18
only within 1 year after the day-- 19
(a) the planning scheme or planning scheme policy creating 20
the superseded planning scheme took effect; or 21
(b) the amendment of a planning scheme or planning 22
scheme policy creating the superseded planning scheme 23
took effect. 24
(3) The notice must-- 25
(a) be in the approved form; and 26
(b) be accompanied by the fee fixed by resolution of the 27
local government; and 28
(c) contain a description of the proposed development or be 29
accompanied by a copy of the proposed development 30
application or request for compliance assessment. 31
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(4) The local government must keep the notice available for 1
inspection and purchase from when the local government 2
receives it until the request is decided under this division. 3
96 Decision on request 4
(1) The local government must decide to agree to the request, or 5
refuse the request, within 30 business days after receiving it 6
(the request period). 7
(2) However, the local government may, by written notice given 8
to the person making the request and without the person's 9
agreement, extend the request period by not more than 10 10
business days. 11
(3) Only 1 notice may be given under subsection (2), and it must 12
be given before the request period ends. 13
(4) However, the request period may be further extended if the 14
person making the request gives written agreement to the 15
extension before the period ends. 16
(5) The local government is taken to have decided to agree to the 17
request if the local government does not decide the request 18
within the latest of the following periods to end-- 19
(a) the request period; 20
(b) if the request period is extended under subsections (2) 21
and (3)--the extended period; 22
(c) if the request period is further extended under 23
subsection (4)--the further extended period. 24
97 Notice of decision 25
The local government must give the person making the 26
request written notice of the local government's decision 27
within 5 business days after making the decision. 28
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98 When development under superseded planning scheme 1
must start 2
(1) If the local government agrees or is taken to have agreed to a 3
request made under section 95(1)(a), the superseded planning 4
scheme applies for carrying out the development if-- 5
(a) for development that is a material change of use--the 6
first change of use started within 4 years after the person 7
is given, or was entitled to be given, notice of the 8
decision under this division; or 9
(b) for development that is reconfiguring a lot--a plan for 10
the reconfiguration is given to the local government 11
within 2 years after the person is given, or was entitled 12
to be given, notice of the decision under this division; or 13
(c) for other development--the development is 14
substantially started within 2 years after the person is 15
given, or was entitled to be given, notice of the decision 16
under this division. 17
(2) A person may, by written notice given to the local government 18
before the end of the period stated in subsection (1) for the 19
development, ask the local government to extend the period. 20
(3) A request under subsection (2)-- 21
(a) must be accompanied by the fee fixed by resolution of 22
the local government; and 23
(b) if the local government has a form for the request--must 24
be in that form; and 25
(c) may not be withdrawn. 26
(4) The local government must give the person written notice of 27
the local government's decision within 30 business days after 28
receiving the request. 29
(5) If a person makes a request under subsection (2), the period 30
stated in subsection (1) for the development does not end until 31
the local government gives the person notice of its decision. 32
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99 When development application (superseded planning 1
scheme) can be made 2
(1) If the local government agrees or is taken to have agreed to a 3
request made under section 95(1)(b) or (c), a development 4
application (superseded planning scheme) for the 5
development may be made to the assessment manager. 6
(2) However, the development application (superseded planning 7
scheme) must be made within 6 months after the day the 8
person is given, or was entitled to be given, notice of the 9
decision. 10
(3) Despite section 239, a development application can be made 11
for development that is prohibited development under a 12
planning scheme if-- 13
(a) the local government agrees or is taken to have agreed to 14
assess and decide the development application under a 15
superseded planning scheme; and 16
(b) the development was not prohibited development under 17
the superseded planning scheme. 18
100 When request for compliance assessment under a 19
superseded planning scheme can be made 20
(1) If the local government agrees or is taken to have agreed to a 21
request made under section 95(1)(d) or (e), a request for 22
compliance assessment of the development under the 23
superseded planning scheme may be made to the assessment 24
manager. 25
(2) However, the request must be made within 6 months after the 26
day the person is given, or was entitled to be given, notice of 27
the decision. 28
(3) Despite section 239, a request for compliance assessment can 29
be made for development that is prohibited development 30
under a planning scheme if-- 31
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(a) the local government agrees or is taken to have agreed to 1
assess and decide the request under a superseded 2
planning scheme; and 3
(b) the development was not prohibited development under 4
the superseded planning scheme. 5
Part 3 Temporary local planning 6
instruments 7
Division 1 Preliminary 8
101 What is a temporary local planning instrument 9
A temporary local planning instrument is an instrument 10
that-- 11
(a) is made by a local government under division 2 and part 12
5; and 13
(b) advances the purpose of this Act by protecting a 14
planning scheme area from adverse impacts. 15
102 Status of temporary local planning instrument 16
A temporary local planning instrument is a statutory 17
instrument under the Statutory Instruments Act 1992 and has 18
the force of law as provided for under this Act. 19
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103 Area to which temporary local planning instrument 1
applies 2
A temporary local planning instrument may apply to all or 3
only part of a planning scheme area. 4
104 Relationship with planning scheme 5
A temporary local planning instrument may suspend or 6
otherwise affect the operation of a planning scheme for up to 7
1 year, but-- 8
(a) does not amend a planning scheme; and 9
(b) is not a change to a planning scheme under section 703. 10
Note-- 11
For the relationship between temporary local planning instruments and 12
State planning instruments, see sections 19 (Relationship with other 13
instruments), 26 (Relationship with other instruments), 43 (Relationship 14
with local planning instruments) and 53 (Relationship with local 15
planning instruments). 16
Division 2 General matters about temporary 17
local planning instruments 18
105 Power to make temporary local planning instrument 19
A local government may make a temporary local planning 20
instrument for all or part of its planning scheme area only if 21
the Minister is satisfied-- 22
(a) there is a significant risk of serious environmental harm, 23
or serious adverse cultural, economic or social 24
conditions happening in the planning scheme area; and 25
(b) the delay involved in using the process stated in the 26
guideline mentioned in section 117(1) to amend the 27
planning scheme would increase the risk; and 28
(c) State interests would not be adversely affected by the 29
proposed temporary local planning instrument; and 30
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(d) the proposed temporary local planning instrument 1
appropriately reflects the standard planning scheme 2
provisions. 3
106 Content of temporary local planning instrument 4
(1) A temporary local planning instrument may-- 5
(a) declare development to be-- 6
(i) self-assessable development; or 7
(ii) development requiring compliance assessment; or 8
(iii) assessable development; and 9
(b) require impact or code assessment, or both impact and 10
code assessment, for assessable development; and 11
(c) state that development is prohibited development, but 12
only if the standard planning scheme provisions state the 13
development may be prohibited development. 14
(2) This section does not limit the matters that may be included in 15
a temporary local planning instrument. 16
107 Documents temporary local planning instrument may 17
adopt 18
(1) The only documents made by a local government that a 19
temporary local planning instrument of the local government 20
may, under the Statutory Instruments Act 1992, section 23, 21
apply, adopt or incorporate are-- 22
(a) a planning scheme policy; or 23
(b) a structure plan. 24
(2) In this section-- 25
documents does not include the following-- 26
(a) a development approval; 27
(b) a master plan; 28
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(c) an approval for an application mentioned in repealed 1
IPA, section 6.1.26. 2
Part 4 Planning scheme policies 3
Division 1 Preliminary 4
108 What is a planning scheme policy 5
A planning scheme policy is an instrument that-- 6
(a) is made by a local government under division 2 and part 7
5; and 8
(b) supports the local dimension of a planning scheme; and 9
(c) supports local government actions under this Act for 10
IDAS and for making or amending its planning scheme. 11
109 Status of planning scheme policy 12
A planning scheme policy is a statutory instrument under the 13
Statutory Instruments Act 1992 and has the force of law as 14
provided for under this Act. 15
110 Effect of planning scheme policy 16
A planning scheme policy for a planning scheme area-- 17
(a) becomes a policy for the area; and 18
(b) if the policy states that it replaces an existing 19
policy--replaces the existing policy. 20
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111 Area to which planning scheme policy applies 1
A planning scheme policy may apply to all or only part of a 2
planning scheme area. 3
112 Relationship with other planning instruments 4
To the extent a planning scheme policy is inconsistent with 5
another planning instrument, the other planning instrument 6
prevails. 7
Division 2 General matters about planning 8
scheme policies 9
113 Power to make planning scheme policy 10
A local government may make a planning scheme policy for 11
all or a part of its planning scheme area. 12
114 Content of planning scheme policy 13
(1) A planning scheme policy may only do 1 or more of the 14
following-- 15
(a) state information a local government may request for a 16
development application; 17
(b) state the consultation the local government may carry 18
out under section 256; 19
(c) state actions a local government may take to support the 20
process for making or amending its planning scheme; 21
(d) contain standards identified in a code; 22
(e) include guidelines or advice about satisfying assessment 23
criteria in the planning scheme. 24
(2) Subsection (1) applies despite section 109. 25
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115 Planning scheme policy can not adopt particular 1
documents 2
(1) A planning scheme policy must not apply, adopt or 3
incorporate another document made by the local government. 4
(2) In this section-- 5
document does not include the following-- 6
(a) a development approval; 7
(b) a master plan; 8
(c) an approval for an application mentioned in repealed 9
IPA, section 6.1.26. 10
Part 5 Making, amending or repealing 11
local planning instruments 12
Division 1 Preliminary 13
116 Application of pt 5 14
This part does not apply to amendments of a local 15
government's planning scheme to include a structure plan. 16
Note-- 17
For declared master planned areas, see chapter 4. 18
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Division 2 Making or amending local planning 1
instruments 2
117 Process for making or amending local planning 3
instruments 4
(1) For making or amending a planning scheme or planning 5
scheme policy, a local government must follow the process 6
stated in a guideline-- 7
(a) made by the Minister; and 8
(b) prescribed under a regulation. 9
(2) For making a temporary local planning instrument, a local 10
government must follow the process stated in a guideline-- 11
(a) made by the Minister; and 12
(b) prescribed under a regulation. 13
118 Content of guideline for making or amending local 14
planning instrument 15
(1) The guideline mentioned in section 117(1) must make 16
provision for-- 17
(a) the local government to publish at least once in a 18
newspaper circulating in the local government's area, 19
notice about a proposal to make-- 20
(i) a planning scheme; or 21
(ii) a planning scheme policy; and 22
(b) the local government to carry out public consultation 23
about a proposal mentioned in paragraph (a) for a period 24
(the consultation period) of at least-- 25
(i) for a proposed planning scheme--30 business 26
days; and 27
(ii) for a proposed planning scheme policy--20 28
business days; and 29
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(c) if public consultation about a proposal mentioned in 1
paragraph (a) must be carried out-- 2
(i) the local government to have available for 3
inspection and purchase during all of the 4
consultation period a copy of the proposed 5
planning scheme or planning scheme policy; and 6
(ii) members of the public to make submissions to the 7
local government about the proposed planning 8
scheme or planning scheme policy; and 9
(iii) the local government to consider all properly made 10
submissions about the proposed planning scheme 11
or planning scheme policy; and 12
(iv) the local government to advise persons who make 13
a properly made submission about how the local 14
government has dealt with the submission; and 15
(v) the local government to give the Minister a notice 16
containing a summary of matters raised in the 17
properly made submissions and stating how the 18
local government dealt with the matters; and 19
(d) any proposed planning scheme to be approved by the 20
Minister; and 21
(e) the making of a proposed planning scheme, or 22
amendment of a planning scheme, to be notified in the 23
gazette; and 24
(f) the making of a proposed planning scheme policy, or 25
amendment of a planning scheme policy, to be notified 26
in a newspaper circulating generally in the local 27
government's area. 28
(2) The guideline mentioned in section 117(2) must make 29
provision for-- 30
(a) any proposed temporary local planning instrument to be 31
approved by the Minister; and 32
(b) the making of a proposed temporary local planning 33
instrument to be notified in the gazette. 34
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119 Compliance with guideline 1
(1) Despite section 117(1), if a planning scheme or planning 2
scheme policy is made or amended in substantial compliance 3
with the process stated in the guideline mentioned in the 4
subsection, the planning scheme, planning scheme policy or 5
amendment is valid so long as any noncompliance has not-- 6
(a) adversely affected the awareness of the public of the 7
existence and nature of the proposed planning scheme, 8
planning scheme policy or amendment; or 9
(b) restricted the opportunity of the public to make properly 10
made submissions about the proposed planning scheme, 11
planning scheme policy or amendment under the 12
guideline; or 13
(c) for a planning scheme or amendment of a planning 14
scheme--restricted the opportunity of the Minister to 15
consider whether State interests would be adversely 16
affected. 17
(2) Despite section 117(2), if a temporary local planning 18
instrument is made in substantial compliance with the process 19
stated in the guideline mentioned in the subsection, the 20
instrument is valid. 21
120 When planning scheme, temporary local planning 22
instrument and amendments have effect 23
(1) A planning scheme or temporary local planning instrument 24
for a planning scheme area has effect on and from-- 25
(a) the day the making of the planning scheme or temporary 26
local planning instrument is notified in the gazette; or 27
(b) if a later day for the commencement of the planning 28
scheme or temporary local planning instrument is stated 29
in the planning scheme or instrument--the later day. 30
(2) If a planning scheme is amended, the amendment has effect 31
on and from-- 32
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(a) the day the making of the amendment is notified in the 1
gazette; or 2
(b) if a later day for the commencement of the amendment 3
is stated in the amendment--the later day. 4
(3) A temporary local planning instrument has effect until the 5
instrument expires or is repealed. 6
121 When planning scheme policy and amendments have 7
effect 8
A planning scheme policy or amendment of a planning 9
scheme policy for a planning scheme area has effect on and 10
from-- 11
(a) the day the making of the policy or amendment is first 12
notified in a newspaper circulating generally in the local 13
government's area; or 14
(b) if a later day for the commencement of the policy or 15
amendment is stated in the policy or amendment--the 16
later day. 17
122 Consolidating planning schemes 18
(1) A local government may prepare and adopt a consolidated 19
planning scheme. 20
(2) The guideline mentioned in section 117(1) does not apply to 21
the preparation or adoption of the consolidated planning 22
scheme. 23
(3) The consolidated planning scheme is, in the absence of 24
evidence to the contrary, taken to be the local government's 25
planning scheme on and from the day the consolidated 26
planning scheme is adopted by the local government. 27
(4) As soon as practicable after the local government adopts the 28
consolidated planning scheme, the local government must 29
give the chief executive a certified copy of the consolidated 30
planning scheme. 31
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Part 5 Making, amending or repealing local planning instruments
[s 123]
Division 3 Repealing local planning 1
instruments 2
123 Repealing temporary local planning instruments 3
(1) A temporary local planning instrument may be repealed by-- 4
(a) a resolution of a local government; or 5
(b) the adoption of a planning scheme or an amendment of a 6
planning scheme that specifically repeals the 7
instrument. 8
(2) However, a local government must have the Minister's 9
written approval to make a resolution under subsection (1)(a) 10
if the temporary local planning instrument-- 11
(a) was made by the local government under the direction 12
of the Minister under section 126; or 13
(b) was made by the Minister under section 128 after the 14
local government did not comply with a direction of the 15
Minister under section 126; or 16
(c) was made by the Minister under section 129. 17
(3) The local government must publish, in a newspaper 18
circulating generally in the local government's area and in the 19
gazette, a notice stating the following-- 20
(a) the name of the local government; 21
(b) the name of the temporary local planning instrument 22
being repealed; 23
(c) the day the resolution was made; 24
(d) the purpose and general effect of the resolution. 25
(4) On the day the notice is published in the gazette, or as soon as 26
practicable after the day, the local government must give the 27
chief executive a copy of the notice. 28
(5) The repeal takes effect-- 29
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(a) if the resolution is made under subsection (1)(a)--on the 1
day the resolution is notified in the gazette; or 2
(b) if the temporary local planning instrument is repealed by 3
the making of a planning scheme or an amendment of a 4
planning scheme--on the day the planning scheme or 5
amendment takes effect. 6
124 Repealing planning scheme policies 7
(1) A local government may, by resolution, repeal a planning 8
scheme policy, other than a planning scheme policy that is 9
replaced by another planning scheme policy. 10
(2) If a local government makes a resolution under subsection (1), 11
the local government must give the Minister a copy of the 12
resolution. 13
(3) The local government must publish, in a newspaper 14
circulating generally in the local government's area, a notice 15
stating the following-- 16
(a) the name of the local government; 17
(b) the name of the planning scheme policy being repealed; 18
(c) the day the resolution was made. 19
(4) On the day the notice is published, or as soon as practicable 20
after the notice is published, the local government must give 21
the chief executive a copy of the notice. 22
(5) The repeal takes effect-- 23
(a) on the day the notice is first published in the newspaper; 24
or 25
(b) if the notice states a later day--on the later day. 26
(6) Also, if a new planning scheme, other than an amendment of a 27
planning scheme, is made for a planning scheme area, all 28
existing planning scheme policies for the area are repealed on 29
the day the planning scheme takes effect. 30
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Part 6 Powers of State in relation to local planning instruments
[s 125]
Part 6 Powers of State in relation to 1
local planning instruments 2
Division 1 Direction to take action about local 3
planning instruments 4
125 Procedures before exercising particular power 5
(1) Before a power is exercised under section 126 or 127, the 6
Minister must give written notice of the proposed exercise of 7
the power to the local government to be affected by the 8
exercise of the power. 9
(2) However, notice need not be given if the power is proposed to 10
be exercised at the local government's request. 11
(3) The notice must state-- 12
(a) the reasons for the proposed exercise of the power; and 13
(b) a period within which the local government may make 14
submissions to the Minister about the proposed exercise 15
of the power. 16
(4) The Minister must consider any submissions made under 17
subsection (3) and advise the local government that the 18
Minister has decided-- 19
(a) not to exercise the power; or 20
(b) to exercise the power. 21
(5) If the Minister decides to exercise the power, the Minister 22
must advise the local government the reasons for deciding to 23
exercise the power. 24
126 Power of Minister to direct local government to take 25
particular action about local planning instrument 26
(1) This section applies if the Minister is satisfied it is necessary 27
to give a direction to a local government-- 28
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(a) to protect or give effect to a State interest; or 1
(b) to ensure a local planning instrument or a proposed local 2
planning instrument appropriately reflects the standard 3
planning scheme provisions. 4
(2) The Minister may direct the local government to take an 5
action in relation to a local planning instrument or a proposed 6
local planning instrument. 7
(3) The direction may be as general or specific as the Minister 8
considers appropriate and must state the reasonable period 9
within which the local government must comply with the 10
direction. 11
(4) Without limiting subsection (2), the direction may require the 12
local government to-- 13
(a) review its planning scheme; or 14
(b) make a planning scheme or amend its planning scheme; 15
or 16
(c) make or repeal a temporary local planning instrument; 17
or 18
(d) make, amend or repeal a planning scheme policy. 19
127 Power of Minister to direct local government to prepare a 20
consolidated planning scheme 21
The Minister may direct a local government to prepare a 22
consolidated planning scheme. 23
128 Power of Minister if local government does not comply 24
with direction 25
(1) If the local government does not comply with the Minister's 26
direction under section 126 or 127 within the reasonable 27
period stated in the direction, the Minister may take the action 28
the Minister directed the local government to take. 29
(2) Anything done by the Minister under subsection (1) is taken 30
to have been done by the local government and has the same 31
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[s 129]
effect as it would have had if the local government had done 1
it. 2
(3) An expense reasonably incurred by the Minister in taking an 3
action under subsection (1) may be recovered from the local 4
government as a debt owing to the State. 5
Division 2 Making or amending local planning 6
instrument without direction 7
129 Power of Minister to take action about local planning 8
instrument without direction to local government 9
(1) Subsection (2) applies if the Minister is satisfied urgent action 10
is necessary to protect or give effect to a State interest. 11
(2) The Minister may make or amend a local planning instrument 12
without giving a direction under section 126 to the local 13
government about the making or amendment of the local 14
planning instrument. 15
(3) Subsection (4) applies if the Minister is satisfied a local 16
planning instrument does not appropriately reflect the 17
standard planning scheme provisions. 18
(4) The Minister may amend the local planning instrument 19
without giving a direction under section 126 to the local 20
government about the amendment of the instrument. 21
(5) Before acting under subsection (2) or (4), the Minister must 22
give written notice of the proposed action to the local 23
government to be affected by the action. 24
(6) The notice must state the reasons for taking the action. 25
(7) Anything done by the Minister under this section is taken to 26
have been done by the local government and has the same 27
effect as it would have had if the local government had done 28
it. 29
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(8) An expense reasonably incurred by the Minister in taking an 1
action under this section may be recovered from the local 2
government as a debt owing to the State. 3
Note-- 4
The regional planning Minister may amend a planning scheme to reflect 5
a regional plan. See section 29 (Amending planning schemes to reflect 6
regional plan). 7
Division 3 Process for dealing with local 8
planning instruments under part 6 9
130 Process for Minister to take action under pt 6 10
(1) A guideline mentioned in section 117 must state a process for 11
the Minister-- 12
(a) to take the action the Minister directed the local 13
government to take under division 1; and 14
(b) to make or amend a local planning instrument under 15
division 2. 16
(2) In taking the action, or making or amending the local planning 17
instrument, the Minister must follow the stated process. 18
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Part 1 Master planning for particular areas of State interest
[s 131]
Chapter 4 Planning partnerships 1
Part 1 Master planning for particular 2
areas of State interest 3
Division 1 Preliminary 4
131 Purpose of ch 4 5
The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the following-- 6
(a) the identification, by local governments, regional 7
planning Ministers for designated regions and the 8
Minister, of areas (called master planned areas) to be the 9
subject of integrated land use and infrastructure 10
planning; 11
(b) for declared master planned areas, local governments to 12
make, in conjunction with the State, integrated land use 13
plans (called structure plans) setting out the broad 14
environmental, infrastructure and development intent to 15
guide detailed planning for the areas; 16
(c) the processes for making structure plans; 17
(d) plans (called master plans) about the detailed planning 18
of the areas; 19
(e) the processes for making and approving master plans; 20
(f) particular State assessment manager and referral agency 21
functions under IDAS to be replaced with the role of 22
State agencies who coordinate or participate in the 23
making of structure plans and the approval of master 24
plans for the areas. 25
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[s 132]
Division 2 Master planned areas 1
132 Identification of master planned areas 2
(1) A local government may identify an area as a master planned 3
area in its planning scheme or in a document made under a 4
regional plan. 5
(2) The regional planning Minister for a designated region may 6
identify an area as a master planned area for the region in-- 7
(a) the regional plan for the region or in a document made 8
under the regional plan; or 9
(b) a State planning regulatory provision; or 10
(c) a declaration made under section 133 (a master planned 11
area declaration). 12
(3) The Minister may identify an area as a master planned area 13
in-- 14
(a) a State planning regulatory provision; or 15
(b) a declaration made under section 133 (also a master 16
planned area declaration). 17
(4) A master planned area identified in a master planned area 18
declaration is a declared master planned area. 19
(5) A master planned area must be identified by reference to 20
cadastral boundaries or metes and bounds. 21
(6) Despite subsections (1) to (4), a wild river area can not be 22
included in a master planned area. 23
133 Master planned area declarations 24
(1) A master planned area declaration is made by a notice 25
published-- 26
(a) in the gazette; and 27
(b) in at least 1 newspaper circulating in the area of the local 28
government. 29
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(2) The declaration must identify the master planned area and 1
state-- 2
(a) the coordinating agency for the structure plan for the 3
area; and 4
(b) the participating agencies for the structure plan for the 5
area; and 6
(c) the jurisdiction or jurisdictions that the coordinating 7
agency and each participating agency has under IDAS 8
and for which they are the coordinating agency or a 9
participating agency for the structure plan for the area; 10
and 11
(d) the timeframes for the making of the structure plan. 12
(3) The declaration may identify other matters the Minister 13
considers appropriate for the making of the structure plan or 14
the master planning of the area. 15
134 Restriction on particular development applications in 16
master planned area 17
(1) A development application for a preliminary approval to 18
which section 242 applies may be made for a master planned 19
area only-- 20
(a) after the structure plan for the area takes effect; and 21
(b) if the structure plan states that a development 22
application for a preliminary approval to which section 23
242 applies can be made. 24
(2) A development application for a preliminary approval 25
permitted to be made under subsection (1) can not seek to 26
vary the effect of the structure plan area code included in the 27
structure plan. 28
(3) If the preliminary approval is issued, it is of no effect to the 29
extent it purports to vary the effect of the structure plan area 30
code. 31
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Part 2 Structure plans for master planned areas declared by the Minister or regional planning
Minister
[s 135]
135 Notation of master planned areas on planning scheme 1
(1) The local government must note on its planning scheme for its 2
planning scheme area each master planned area identified 3
in-- 4
(a) a regional plan or a document made under a regional 5
plan; or 6
(b) a State planning regulatory provision; or 7
(c) a master planned area declaration. 8
(2) The note is not an amendment of the planning scheme. 9
(3) Failure to comply with subsection (1) does not affect the 10
validity of the identification of the master planned area. 11
Part 2 Structure plans for master 12
planned areas declared by the 13
Minister or regional planning 14
Minister 15
Division 1 Preliminary 16
136 Application of pt 2 17
This part applies only for a declared master planned area. 18
137 What is a structure plan 19
A structure plan for a declared master planned area is the 20
structure plan for the area made under division 4. 21
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Part 2 Structure plans for master planned areas declared by the Minister or regional planning
Minister
[s 138]
138 Relationship with regulation under s 232 1
(1) The structure plan must be consistent with a regulation made 2
under section 232(1) or (2). 3
(2) To the extent the structure plan is inconsistent with a 4
regulation made under section 232(1) or (2), the structure plan 5
is of no effect. 6
139 Relationship with State planning instruments 7
If there is an inconsistency between a structure plan and a 8
State planning instrument, the State planning instrument 9
prevails to the extent of the inconsistency. 10
Division 2 General matters about structure 11
plans 12
140 Local government's obligation to have structure plan 13
The local government must have a structure plan for the 14
declared master planned area. 15
141 Content of structure plan 16
(1) The structure plan must-- 17
(a) be a part of the local government's planning scheme; 18
and 19
(b) be an integrated land use plan, setting out the broad 20
environmental, land use, infrastructure and development 21
intended to guide detailed planning for the area; and 22
(c) appropriately reflect the standard planning scheme 23
provisions. 24
(2) The structure plan must-- 25
(a) include a structure plan area code that-- 26
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Part 2 Structure plans for master planned areas declared by the Minister or regional planning
Minister
[s 141]
(i) states the development entitlements and 1
development obligations for the area; and 2
(ii) includes a structure plan map that gives a spatial 3
dimension to the matters the subject of the code; 4
and 5
(b) identify master planning requirements for all or part of 6
the area, including, for example-- 7
(i) any master plans required to be made for the area 8
or the part; and 9
(ii) any requirements with which master plans must 10
comply; and 11
(iii) whether a master plan is required to be assessed by 12
the State, and if so-- 13
(A) the coordinating agency and the participating 14
agencies for the master plan application for 15
the master plan; and 16
(B) their jurisdiction for the application; and 17
(iv) any requirements for public notification of master 18
plans; and 19
(v) any period that, under part 3, division 3, may be 20
provided for in the structure plan; and 21
Note-- 22
For the periods, see sections 162(2) and 174(2). 23
(c) for development in the area-- 24
(i) state development that is-- 25
(A) exempt development; and 26
(B) self-assessable development; and 27
(C) development requiring compliance 28
assessment; and 29
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Part 2 Structure plans for master planned areas declared by the Minister or regional planning
Minister
[s 142]
(D) assessable development requiring code or 1
impact assessment, or both code and impact 2
assessment; and 3
(ii) identify or include codes for the development. 4
(3) The structure plan may-- 5
(a) state strategic outcomes for the area; or 6
(b) state assessable development requiring impact 7
assessment that a master plan may state is-- 8
(i) self-assessable development or assessable 9
development requiring code assessment; or 10
(ii) development requiring compliance assessment; or 11
(c) state that development can not be carried out in the area 12
until there is a master plan for the area; or 13
Note-- 14
See also section 583(4) (Compliance with master plans). 15
(d) state that a development application for a preliminary 16
approval to which section 242 applies can be made for 17
development in the area; or 18
(e) include a regulated State infrastructure charges 19
schedule. 20
Note-- 21
For other matters that may be included in a structure plan, see chapter 6, 22
part 10 (Compliance stage). 23
142 Prohibited development under structure plan 24
A structure plan may state that development is prohibited 25
development, but only if the standard planning scheme 26
provisions state the development may be prohibited 27
development. 28
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Part 2 Structure plans for master planned areas declared by the Minister or regional planning
Minister
[s 143]
Division 3 Funding for structure plans 1
143 Agreement to fund structure plan 2
(1) A local government may enter into an agreement with owners 3
or occupiers of land in a declared master planned area, or 4
another person who has an interest in the matter, to fund the 5
preparation of a structure plan. 6
(2) However, the agreement may be entered into only if the local 7
government has adopted a policy that prescribes the basis on 8
which the funding is to be provided. 9
Note-- 10
Funding for a structure plan may also be the subject of an infrastructure 11
agreement. See section 661. 12
144 Special charge for making a structure plan 13
(1) A local government may, by resolution, make and levy on an 14
owner or occupier of rateable land in a declared master 15
planned area a special charge on the land if-- 16
(a) the charge is for making the structure plan for the area; 17
and 18
(b) in the local government's opinion-- 19
(i) the land, or the owner or occupier of the land, has 20
or will specially benefit from the making of the 21
structure plan; or 22
(ii) the owner or occupier of the land, or the use made 23
or to be made of the land, has specially 24
contributed, or will specially contribute, to the 25
need for the making of the structure plan. 26
(2) The charge may be made and levied on the bases the local 27
government considers appropriate. 28
(3) However, if an amount has been paid, or is payable, to the 29
local government under an agreement under section 143 or an 30
infrastructure agreement for the making of the structure plan, 31
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Part 2 Structure plans for master planned areas declared by the Minister or regional planning
Minister
[s 144]
the local government must take into account the amount in 1
levying the charge. 2
(4) The local government may fix a minimum amount of the 3
charge. 4
(5) Without limiting subsection (2), the amount of the charge may 5
vary according to the extent to which, in the local 6
government's opinion-- 7
(a) the land, or the owner or occupier of the land, has or will 8
specially benefit from the making of the structure plan; 9
or 10
(b) the owner or occupier of the land, or the use made or to 11
be made of the land, has specially contributed, or will 12
specially contribute, to the need for the making of the 13
structure plan. 14
(6) The local government's resolution making the charge must 15
identify-- 16
(a) the rateable land to which the charge applies; and 17
(b) the overall plan for the making of the structure plan. 18
(7) The overall plan must-- 19
(a) be adopted by the local government by resolution either 20
before, or at the same time as, the local government first 21
makes the charge; and 22
(b) identify the rateable land to which the charge applies; 23
and 24
(c) describe the process for the making of the structure 25
plan; and 26
(d) state the estimated cost of implementing the overall 27
plan; and 28
(e) state the estimated time for implementing the overall 29
plan. 30
(8) The local government may identify parcels of rateable land to 31
which the charge applies in any way it considers appropriate. 32
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Minister
[s 145]
(9) For making and levying the charge, the Local Government 1
Act, section 1035A applies as if the charge were a rate under 2
that Act. 3
(10) In this section-- 4
rateable land see the Local Government Act, section 957. 5
Division 4 Making structure plans 6
145 Making structure plan 7
The structure plan must be prepared and made as required by 8
a guideline-- 9
(a) made by the Minister; and 10
(b) prescribed under a regulation. 11
146 Content of guideline for making structure plan 12
The guideline mentioned in section 145 must make provision 13
for the following-- 14
(a) the local government to publish notice about the 15
proposed structure plan at least once in a newspaper 16
circulating in the local government's area; 17
(b) the local government to carry out public consultation 18
about the proposed structure plan for a period (the 19
consultation period) of at least 30 business days; 20
(c) the local government to have available for inspection 21
and purchase during all of the consultation period a copy 22
of the proposed structure plan; 23
(d) members of the public to make submissions to the local 24
government about the proposed structure plan; 25
(e) the local government to consider all properly made 26
submissions about the proposed structure plan; 27
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[s 147]
(f) the local government to advise persons who make a 1
properly made submission about how the local 2
government has dealt with the submission; 3
(g) the proposed structure plan to be approved by the 4
Minister; 5
(h) the making of the structure plan by the local government 6
to be notified in the gazette. 7
147 Compliance with guideline 8
Despite section 145, if the structure plan is made in 9
substantial compliance with the guideline mentioned in the 10
section, the structure plan is valid so long as any 11
noncompliance has not-- 12
(a) adversely affected the awareness of the public of the 13
existence and nature of the proposed structure plan; or 14
(b) restricted the opportunity of members of the public to 15
make properly made submissions under the guideline; or 16
(c) restricted the opportunity of the Minister to consider 17
whether any State interests would be adversely affected. 18
148 When structure plan takes effect 19
The structure plan has effect on and from-- 20
(a) the day the making of the plan is notified in the gazette; 21
or 22
(b) if a later day for the commencement of the plan is stated 23
in the plan--the later day. 24
149 Provisions for new planning schemes 25
(1) Subsection (2) applies if the local government has complied 26
with the guideline mentioned in section 145 for making a 27
structure plan but the planning scheme in which the plan was 28
being sought to be included ceases to have effect. 29
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[s 150]
(2) The Minister may approve the inclusion of the structure plan 1
in a new planning scheme with changes the Minister considers 2
appropriate without the local government having to comply 3
again with the guideline. 4
(3) Subsection (4) applies if the local government has a structure 5
plan (the existing plan) and it proposes to make a new 6
planning scheme. 7
(4) A structure plan (the remade plan) may be included in the 8
new planning scheme without having to comply with the 9
guideline if the Minister has agreed that the remade plan is 10
substantially consistent with the existing plan. 11
Part 3 Master plans 12
Division 1 Preliminary 13
150 Application of pt 3 14
This part applies if the structure plan for a declared master 15
planned area requires a master plan for all or part of the area. 16
151 What is a master plan 17
A master plan is a master plan approved under section 181 18
that is still in force, and includes any conditions included in 19
the plan. 20
152 Relationship with regulation under s 232 21
(1) The master plan must be consistent with a regulation made 22
under section 232(1) or (2). 23
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(2) To the extent the master plan is inconsistent with a regulation 1
made under section 232(1) or (2), the master plan is of no 2
effect. 3
153 Relationship with other planning instruments 4
(1) If there is an inconsistency between a master plan and a State 5
planning instrument, the State planning instrument prevails to 6
the extent of the inconsistency. 7
(2) To the extent the master plan is, by doing either or both of the 8
things provided for under section 155(1)(c)(i) or (ii), different 9
from a local planning instrument, the master plan prevails. 10
(3) Subsection (1) is subject to section 154. 11
154 New planning instruments can not affect approved 12
master plan 13
If, after a master plan is approved, a new planning instrument 14
or an amendment of a planning instrument commences, 15
neither the planning instrument nor the amendment can 16
change or otherwise affect the master plan. 17
Division 2 General matters about master plans 18
155 Content of master plan 19
(1) The master plan must-- 20
(a) include a master plan area code that-- 21
(i) states the development entitlements and 22
development obligations for the master planning 23
unit for the plan; and 24
(ii) includes a master plan map that gives a spatial 25
dimension to the matters the subject of the code; 26
and 27
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(b) appropriately reflect the standard planning scheme 1
provisions; and 2
(c) for development in the master planning unit-- 3
(i) state whether the development is-- 4
(A) exempt development; or 5
(B) self-assessable development; or 6
(C) development requiring compliance 7
assessment; or 8
(D) assessable development requiring code or 9
impact assessment, or both code and impact 10
assessment; or 11
(ii) identify or include codes for the development; and 12
(iii) state when the development must be completed. 13
Note-- 14
If the development is not completed by the stated time, see section 158 15
(When master plan ceases to have effect). 16
(2) For subsection (1)(c)(i), the master plan may, for development 17
in the master planning unit, state levels of assessment that 18
vary the effect of a level of assessment stated in the structure 19
plan for the master planning unit, in 1 or more of the 20
following ways-- 21
(a) if the structure plan provides that a master plan may 22
state that assessable development requiring impact 23
assessment is self-assessable development, development 24
requiring compliance assessment or assessable 25
development requiring code assessment--vary the level 26
of assessment; 27
(b) for development stated in the structure plan as code 28
assessable development--vary its level of assessment to 29
self-assessable development or development requiring 30
compliance assessment; 31
(c) increase any level of assessment stated in the structure 32
plan. 33
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(3) For subsection (1)(c)(ii), the master plan may, for 1
development in the master planning unit, identify or include a 2
code for development that varies the effect of a code in the 3
local government's planning scheme included in the structure 4
plan for the master planning unit. 5
(4) However, the code for development-- 6
(a) can not vary the effect of the structure plan area code 7
identified or included in the structure plan; and 8
(b) must be substantially consistent with the code that it 9
varies the effect of. 10
(5) The master plan may-- 11
(a) require later master plans for the master planning unit; 12
and 13
(b) state requirements with which a later master plan must 14
comply. 15
Note-- 16
For other matters that may be included in a master plan, see chapter 6, 17
part 10 (Compliance stage). 18
156 Master plan attaches to land in master planning unit 19
(1) The master plan attaches to all land in the master planning 20
unit, and binds the owner, the owner's successors in title and 21
any occupier of the land. 22
(2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (1) applies 23
even if later development, including reconfiguring a lot, is 24
carried out or approved for the land, or the land is 25
reconfigured. 26
157 Local government approval required 27
A person preparing a proposed master plan under the structure 28
plan must apply for and obtain the local government's 29
approval of the proposed plan, under division 3. 30
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158 When master plan ceases to have effect 1
A master plan ceases to have effect-- 2
(a) at the time stated in the plan as the time by which 3
development in the master planning unit must be 4
completed, whether or not the development has been 5
completed; or 6
(b) the earlier time when all development in the master 7
planning unit has been carried out in accordance with 8
the master plan. 9
Division 3 Applying for and obtaining approval 10
of proposed master plan 11
Subdivision 1 Application stage for proposed 12
master plan 13
159 Who may apply 14
A person may, under this division, apply (a master plan 15
application) to the local government for the approval of a 16
proposed master plan for a declared master planned area. 17
160 Requirements for application 18
(1) The master plan application must-- 19
(a) be written; and 20
(b) if the application is made other than by the owner of the 21
land in the master planning unit for the proposed master 22
plan--contain, or be supported by, the owner's written 23
consent to the making of the application; and 24
(c) state-- 25
(i) the proposed master plan; and 26
(ii) the master planning unit; and 27
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(iii) the street address, property description and area of 1
the master planning unit; and 2
(iv) the full name and postal address of the owner and 3
the applicant; and 4
(d) be signed by the applicant; and 5
(e) be accompanied by the number of copies of the 6
proposed master plan required by the local government 7
and any coordinating agency to allow compliance with 8
section 161; and 9
(f) be accompanied by-- 10
(i) any relevant regulatory fee fixed by a resolution of 11
the local government; and 12
(ii) any other fee prescribed under a regulation. 13
(2) The application is a properly made master plan application 14
only if-- 15
(a) it complies with subsection (1); or 16
(b) the local government receives and, after considering any 17
noncompliance with subsection (1), accepts the 18
application. 19
Subdivision 2 Information and response stage 20
161 Local government gives application to coordinating 21
agency 22
(1) The local government must give any coordinating agency a 23
copy of the properly made master plan application within 10 24
business days after receiving it. 25
(2) The coordinating agency must give a copy of the application 26
to the participating agencies within 5 business days after the 27
day the application is received by the coordinating agency. 28
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162 Request for information from applicant 1
(1) The participating agencies, the coordinating agency and the 2
local government may ask the applicant, by written request (a 3
request for information), to give further information needed 4
to assess the master plan application. 5
(2) A participating agency must, within 40 business days or any 6
lesser period provided for under the structure plan after the 7
day (the request date) the application is received by the 8
participating agency, give the coordinating agency a written 9
notice-- 10
(a) making a request for information; or 11
(b) stating that the participating agency will not be making a 12
request for information. 13
(3) If there are participating agencies, the coordinating agency 14
must-- 15
(a) coordinate (the coordinated request) any requests for 16
information by the participating agencies and its own 17
request; and 18
(b) give the local government a written request making the 19
coordinated request within 10 business days after the 20
request date. 21
(4) If there are no participating agencies, the coordinating agency 22
must, within 40 business days after it receives the application, 23
give the local government a written notice-- 24
(a) making a request for information; or 25
(b) stating that the coordinating agency will not be making a 26
request for information. 27
(5) The local government must give any request for information 28
received from the coordinating agency, as well as any request 29
for information to be issued by the local government, to the 30
applicant within-- 31
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(a) 5 business days after the day the local government 1
receives a request for information from the coordinating 2
agency; or 3
(b) 15 business days after the request date if the local 4
government does not receive a request for information 5
from the coordinating agency; or 6
(c) if there is no coordinating agency--40 business days, or 7
any lesser period provided for under the structure plan, 8
after the day the application is received by the local 9
government. 10
(6) If a purported request for information by the coordinating 11
agency is made after the period required under this section, 12
the local government must give the applicant the purported 13
request within 5 business days after receiving the request. 14
163 Applicant responds to any request for information 15
(1) If the applicant receives a request for information from the 16
local government, the applicant must give the local 17
government a written response to each request for information 18
that-- 19
(a) gives all of the information requested; or 20
(b) gives part of the information requested together with a 21
written notice asking the coordinating agency and the 22
local government to proceed with the assessment of the 23
master plan application; or 24
(c) is a written notice-- 25
(i) stating that the applicant does not intend to supply 26
any of the information requested; and 27
(ii) asking the coordinating agency and the local 28
government to proceed with the assessment of the 29
application. 30
(2) The applicant must give the local government the response 31
within-- 32
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(a) generally--the period that ends 6 months after the day 1
the applicant received the request for information from 2
the local government (the usual period); or 3
(b) if, within the usual period, the local government and any 4
coordinating agency agree with the applicant to extend 5
the usual period--that extended period. 6
(3) The response must be accompanied by enough copies of it to 7
allow subsections (4) and (5) to be complied with. 8
(4) The local government must give the coordinating agency a 9
copy of the response within 5 business days after the day the 10
local government receives it. 11
(5) The coordinating agency must give a participating agency a 12
copy of the response within 5 business days after the day the 13
coordinating agency receives it. 14
(6) To remove any doubt, it is declared that this section does not 15
prevent the applicant from responding to a purported request 16
for information mentioned in section 162(6). 17
164 Lapsing of application if applicant does not respond 18
(1) The master plan application lapses if the applicant does not 19
comply with section 163(2). 20
(2) However, if the application is revived under section 165(1), 21
the master plan application lapses if the applicant does not 22
comply with section 165(2). 23
165 When application taken not to have lapsed 24
(1) A master plan application that, other than for this section, 25
would lapse under section 164(1) is revived if, within 5 26
business days after the application would otherwise have 27
lapsed, the applicant gives the local government written notice 28
that the applicant seeks to revive the application. 29
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(2) If the master plan application is revived under subsection (1), 1
the applicant must give the local government the response 2
mentioned in section 163 before the end of-- 3
(a) 5 business days after giving the notice mentioned in 4
subsection (1); or 5
(b) the further period agreed between the local government 6
and the applicant. 7
(3) If the application is revived under subsection (1), for this 8
division the application is taken not to have lapsed under 9
section 164(1). 10
Subdivision 3 Consultation stage 11
166 When consultation is required 12
(1) The applicant must give public notice of the master plan 13
application-- 14
(a) in the circumstances stated in the structure plan for the 15
master planned area; or 16
(b) if the proposed master plan seeks to reduce the level of 17
assessment of assessable development requiring impact 18
assessment stated in the structure plan as being capable 19
of being reduced in a master plan to-- 20
(i) self-assessable development; or 21
(ii) development requiring compliance assessment; or 22
(iii) assessable development requiring code assessment. 23
(2) The public notice must comply with sections 167 and 168. 24
(3) If the public notice is required, the applicant must give the 25
local government a copy of the notice. 26
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167 Content requirements for public notice 1
(1) Any required public notice of the master plan application 2
must be the publication, at least once in a newspaper 3
circulating in the master planned area, of a notice stating the 4
following-- 5
(a) that the applicant has applied for approval of a proposed 6
master plan; 7
(b) a description of the master plan and the master planning 8
unit; 9
(c) a contact telephone number of the local government for 10
information about the proposed master plan; 11
(d) that the application is open for inspection and purchase; 12
(e) that written submissions about any aspect of the 13
application may be made to the local government by any 14
person; 15
(f) the period (the consultation period) during which a 16
submission may be made; 17
(g) that the making of a submission does not give rise to a 18
right of appeal against a decision about the application; 19
(h) the requirements for a properly made submission. 20
(2) The consultation period-- 21
(a) must be at least 20 business days after the publication; 22
and 23
(b) must not include any business day from 20 December in 24
a particular year to 5 January in the following year, both 25
days inclusive. 26
168 When public notice must be given 27
(1) Any required public notice of the master plan application 28
must be published within 20 business days after-- 29
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(a) if a request for information is made under section 1
162--the response to the request mentioned in section 2
163 is given to the local government; or 3
(b) if no request for information is made under section 4
162--the end of the period mentioned in section 5
162(5)(b) or (c). 6
(2) However, if-- 7
(a) a purported request for information is made after the 8
period required under section 162; and 9
(b) the applicant elects to comply with the request within 10
the 20 business days mentioned in subsection (1); 11
the public notice must be given within 20 business days after 12
the applicant complies with the request. 13
169 Notice to comply with public notice requirement 14
(1) This section applies if public notice of the master plan 15
application is required and the applicant does not comply with 16
section 168. 17
(2) The local government may give the applicant written notice 18
requiring the public notice under section 168 to be published 19
within a stated period after the giving of the notice. 20
(3) The stated period must be at least 10 business days after the 21
giving of the notice. 22
170 Lapsing of application if notice not complied with 23
If the applicant does not comply with a notice under section 24
169, the master plan application lapses. 25
171 Making submissions 26
(1) During the consultation period, any person may make a 27
submission to the local government about the master plan 28
application. 29
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(2) The local government must accept a submission if the 1
submission is a properly made submission. 2
(3) However, the local government may accept a written 3
submission even if the submission is not a properly made 4
submission. 5
(4) If the local government has accepted a submission, the person 6
who made the submission may, by written notice-- 7
(a) during the consultation period, amend the submission; 8
or 9
(b) at any time before a decision on the application is made 10
by the local government, withdraw the submission. 11
172 Distribution of submissions 12
(1) The local government must, if asked by the coordinating 13
agency, give a copy of each properly made submission or 14
other submission accepted under section 171(3) or amended 15
under section 171(4)(a) to the coordinating agency-- 16
(a) for a properly made submission--within 5 business days 17
after the end of the consultation period; or 18
(b) for a submission accepted under section 171(3) or 19
amended under section 171(4)(a)--within 5 business 20
days after the submission is accepted or amended. 21
(2) The local government must also advise the coordinating 22
agency of any withdrawn submission within 5 business days 23
after the local government is advised a submission is 24
withdrawn. 25
(3) The coordinating agency must give a copy of the submissions 26
received by it under subsection (1) to the participating 27
agencies within 5 business days after the day the coordinating 28
agency receives the submissions from the local government. 29
(4) The coordinating agency must advise the participating 30
agencies of any withdrawn submission within 5 business days 31
after the day the coordinating agency receives an advice under 32
subsection (2). 33
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Subdivision 4 State government decision stage 1
173 Assessment by participating agency and 2
coordinating agency 3
(1) Any participating agency and any coordinating agency must 4
assess the master plan application-- 5
(a) for participating agencies, within the limits of their 6
jurisdiction as stated in the structure plan; and 7
(b) against the following-- 8
(i) State planning regulatory provisions; 9
(ii) a regional plan not identified as appropriately 10
reflected in the structure plan; 11
(iii) State planning policies, to the extent the policies 12
are not identified in-- 13
(A) any relevant regional plan as being 14
appropriately reflected in the regional plan; 15
or 16
(B) the structure plan as being appropriately 17
reflected in the structure plan; 18
(iv) if the master planning unit contains designated 19
land, its designation; 20
(v) the structure plan for the master planned area; 21
(vi) other master plans applicable to the master 22
planning unit for the proposed master plan; 23
(vii) State infrastructure agreements for the master 24
planned area; and 25
(c) having regard to-- 26
(i) the planning scheme and any other relevant local 27
planning instrument; and 28
(ii) other master plans applicable to the master planned 29
area. 30
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(2) In assessing the application, a participating agency or the 1
coordinating agency may give the weight it is satisfied is 2
appropriate to a document of a type mentioned in subsection 3
(1)(b) or (c) that came into effect after the application was 4
made but before it acts under section 174 or 178. 5
174 When participating agency's response must be given 6
(1) A participating agency must advise the coordinating agency 7
of its recommendation within the required period after-- 8
(a) if the participating agency does not make a request for 9
information--the day it received the master plan 10
application; or 11
(b) if the participating agency makes a request for 12
information--the day it receives the response to the 13
request. 14
(2) In this section-- 15
required period means-- 16
(a) generally--60 business days; or 17
(b) if the structure plan states a lesser period for the giving 18
of the recommendation--the lesser period. 19
175 Participating agency's response powers 20
(1) A participating agency may, within the limits of its 21
jurisdiction as stated in the structure plan, recommend to the 22
coordinating agency one or more of the following-- 23
(a) that it has no conditions to include in an approval of the 24
proposed master plan; 25
(b) conditions that must be included in an approval of the 26
proposed master plan; 27
(c) that any approval must be for part only of the proposed 28
master plan; 29
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(d) that the master plan application be refused. 1
(2) Subsection (1) is subject to section 183. 2
176 Coordinating agency's assessment 3
The coordinating agency must, within 20 business days after 4
receiving the last response from a participating agency (the 5
coordinating agency assessment period)-- 6
(a) consider each participating agency's response; and 7
(b) make a preliminary assessment of the application, based 8
on the assessment carried out under section 173; and 9
(c) if there is a conflict between the preliminary assessment 10
and a participating agency's response, or between the 11
responses of participating agencies, seek to achieve in 12
consultation with the relevant participating agency or 13
agencies an agreed State government response to the 14
master plan application. 15
177 Resolution of conflict by Minister 16
(1) If the coordinating agency can not resolve an agreed State 17
government response to the master plan application, the 18
coordinating agency must, within the coordinating agency 19
assessment period, refer the matter to the Minister. 20
(2) If a matter is referred to the Minister, the Minister must-- 21
(a) establish a committee to prepare a report on the matters 22
and, having considered the report, decide the response to 23
be provided by the coordinating agency; or 24
(b) having considered the written views of the parties, 25
decide the response to be provided by the coordinating 26
agency. 27
(3) The Minister's decision must not be contrary to any relevant 28
law. 29
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178 Coordinating agency's decision 1
(1) The coordinating agency must advise the local government of 2
the coordinating agency's decision within 5 business days 3
after-- 4
(a) the end of the coordinating agency assessment period if 5
there is an agreed State government response to the 6
master plan application; or 7
(b) receiving the Minister's decision. 8
(2) The coordinating agency's decision must tell the local 9
government one or more of the following-- 10
(a) that it has no conditions to include in an approval of the 11
proposed master plan; 12
(b) conditions (coordinating agency conditions) that must 13
be included in an approval of the proposed master plan; 14
(c) that any approval must be for part only of the proposed 15
master plan; 16
(d) that the master plan application be refused. 17
(3) Subsection (2) is subject to section 183. 18
(4) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the coordinating 19
agency may exercise any power of the participating agency 20
that the participating agency would have exercised if it had 21
been making the decision. 22
Subdivision 5 Local government decision stage 23
179 Decision-making period 24
(1) If there is a coordinating agency for the master plan 25
application, the local government must decide the application 26
within the later of-- 27
(a) 60 business days after the day the applicant gave a 28
response to a request for information under section 163; 29
or 30
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(b) 40 business days after the day any coordinating agency 1
advises the local government of its decision under 2
section 178. 3
(2) If there is no coordinating agency for the master plan 4
application, the local government must decide the application 5
within 60 business days after-- 6
(a) if a request for information has been made for the 7
application within the period (the request period) under 8
section 162(5)--the day the applicant gave a response to 9
the request; or 10
(b) if no request for information has been made for the 11
application within the request period--the end of the 12
request period. 13
180 Assessment by local government 14
(1) The local government must assess the master plan 15
application-- 16
(a) against the following-- 17
(i) State planning regulatory provisions; 18
(ii) a regional plan not identified as appropriately 19
reflected in the structure plan; 20
(iii) State planning policies, to the extent the policies 21
are not identified in-- 22
(A) any relevant regional plan as being 23
appropriately reflected in the regional plan; 24
or 25
(B) the structure plan as being appropriately 26
reflected in the structure plan; 27
(iv) the structure plan for the master planned area; 28
(v) other master plans applicable to the master 29
planning unit for the proposed master plan; 30
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(vi) the planning scheme and any other relevant local 1
planning instrument; 2
(vii) local infrastructure agreements for the master 3
planned area; and 4
(b) having regard to the following-- 5
(i) any requests for information and responses to 6
them; 7
(ii) submissions accepted by the local government; 8
(iii) any coordinating agency's decision; 9
(iv) other master plans applicable to the master planned 10
area. 11
(2) In assessing the application, the local government may give 12
the weight it is satisfied is appropriate to a document of a type 13
mentioned in subsection (1) that came into effect after the 14
application was made but before the local government makes 15
its decision on the application. 16
181 Local government's decision generally 17
(1) In deciding the master plan application, the local government 18
must-- 19
(a) approve all or part of the proposed master plan and 20
include in it, in the exact form given by any coordinating 21
agency, any coordinating agency conditions; or 22
(b) approve all or part of the proposed master plan subject 23
to conditions decided by the local government and 24
include in it, in the exact form given by any coordinating 25
agency, any coordinating agency conditions; or 26
(c) refuse the application. 27
(2) An approval under subsection (1) may be given with or 28
without changes to the proposed master plan. 29
(3) The local government's decision must be based on the 30
assessment carried out under section 180. 31
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(4) For an approval under subsection (1)(a) or (b), if the 1
coordinating agency's decision has under section 178(2) 2
stated an action that must be taken, the local government must 3
also take the action. 4
182 Restrictions on giving approval 5
(1) The local government can not approve the proposed master 6
plan if-- 7
(a) it does not comply with, or would be inconsistent with 8
the requirements for a master plan under, section 155; or 9
(b) it is contrary to a State planning regulatory provision; or 10
(c) it conflicts with a regional plan not identified as 11
appropriately reflected in the structure plan; or 12
(d) it conflicts with a State planning policy not identified 13
in-- 14
(i) any relevant regional plan as being appropriately 15
reflected in the regional plan; or 16
(ii) the structure plan as being appropriately reflected 17
in the structure plan; or 18
(e) it compromises the achievement of the strategic 19
outcomes for-- 20
(i) the local government's planning scheme area; or 21
(ii) the master planned area, as stated in the structure 22
plan for the area; or 23
(f) it conflicts with the structure plan area code for the 24
master planned area; or 25
(g) it conflicts with a master plan that already applies to the 26
master planning unit; or 27
(h) any coordinating agency has stated that the proposed 28
master plan must not be approved. 29
(2) A decision to approve the proposed master plan (the relevant 30
plan) must not be made before a decision has been made to 31
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approve another proposed master plan that the structure plan 1
for the master planned area requires to be approved before the 2
relevant plan. 3
(3) If a master plan application for approval of the other proposed 4
master plan is refused, the master plan application for the 5
relevant plan must be refused. 6
183 Conditions 7
(1) A condition included in a master plan must-- 8
(a) be relevant to, but not an unreasonable imposition on, 9
the development or use of premises as a consequence of 10
the development provided for in the master plan; or 11
(b) be reasonably required for the development or use of 12
premises as a consequence of the development provided 13
for in the master plan. 14
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a condition included in a 15
master plan may-- 16
(a) limit how long a lawful use may continue or works may 17
remain in place; or 18
(b) state that development in the master planning unit can 19
not start until-- 20
(i) other master plans for the master planning unit 21
have taken effect; or 22
(ii) development permits for assessable development 23
in the master planning unit have taken effect; or 24
(iii) compliance permits for development requiring 25
compliance assessment in the master planning unit 26
have taken effect; or 27
(iv) other development in the master planning unit has 28
been substantially started or completed; or 29
(c) relate to infrastructure if the condition is of a type that 30
could have been imposed had the master plan 31
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application been a development application made at the 1
same time as the master plan application; or 2
(d) require compliance with an infrastructure agreement 3
relating to the master planned area. 4
Note-- 5
See also section 196 (Modified application of provisions about 6
infrastructure for master plan). 7
(3) A condition imposed under subsection (2)(d) is taken to 8
comply with subsection (1). 9
184 Notice of decision 10
(1) The local government must, within 5 business days after the 11
day the local government decides the master plan application, 12
give written notice about the decision to-- 13
(a) the applicant; and 14
(b) any coordinating agency. 15
(2) The local government must give the coordinating agency 16
enough copies of the notice to allow the coordinating agency 17
to comply with subsection (4). 18
(3) The notice must-- 19
(a) state the decision and the day it was made; and 20
(b) include a copy of any master plan as approved; and 21
(c) if the application is refused, state whether-- 22
(i) the local government was directed to refuse the 23
application; and 24
(ii) the refusal was solely because of the coordinating 25
agency's direction; and 26
(d) state the applicant's rights of appeal against the 27
decision. 28
(4) The coordinating agency must give a copy of the notice to 29
each participating agency within 5 business days after the 30
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coordinating agency receives the notice from the local 1
government. 2
185 Representations about conditions and other matters 3
(1) This section applies if the applicant makes written 4
representations to the local government about a matter stated 5
in the notice given under section 184 (the original notice), 6
within the applicant's appeal period. 7
(2) If the matter relates to coordinating agency conditions-- 8
(a) the local government must give any coordinating agency 9
a copy of the representations; and 10
(b) the coordinating agency must advise the local 11
government whether or not it agrees with the 12
representations. 13
(3) If the relevant entity agrees with any of the representations, 14
the local government must give a new notice under section 15
184 (a negotiated notice) to-- 16
(a) the applicant; and 17
(b) the coordinating agency. 18
(4) Only 1 negotiated notice may be given. 19
(5) The negotiated notice-- 20
(a) must be given within 5 business days after the day the 21
relevant entity agrees with the representations; and 22
(b) must be in the same form as the original notice; and 23
(c) must state the nature of the changes; and 24
(d) replaces the original notice. 25
(6) If the relevant entity does not agree with any of the 26
representations, the local government must, within 5 business 27
days after the day it decides not to agree with any of the 28
representations, give written notice to the applicant stating the 29
decision on the representations. 30
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(7) Before the relevant entity agrees to a change under this 1
section, it must reconsider the matters considered when the 2
original decision was made by the relevant entity, to the extent 3
the matters are relevant. 4
(8) If the master plan approved by the negotiated notice is 5
different from the master plan approved under section 184 in a 6
way that affects the amount of an infrastructure charge, 7
regulated infrastructure charge or regulated State 8
infrastructure charge-- 9
(a) the local government may give the applicant an 10
infrastructure charges notice or a regulated 11
infrastructure charges notice that replaces an existing 12
infrastructure charges notice, negotiated infrastructure 13
charges notice, regulated infrastructure charges notice or 14
negotiated regulated infrastructure charges notice; or 15
(b) the coordinating agency may give the applicant a new 16
regulated State infrastructure charges notice that 17
replaces an existing regulated State infrastructure 18
charges notice or negotiated regulated State 19
infrastructure charges notice. 20
(9) In this section-- 21
relevant entity, for the representations, means-- 22
(a) to the extent the representations relate to coordinating 23
agency conditions--the coordinating agency; or 24
(b) otherwise--the local government. 25
186 Applicant may suspend applicant's appeal period 26
(1) If the applicant needs more time to make the written 27
representations, the applicant may, by written notice given to 28
the local government (the suspension notice), suspend the 29
applicant's appeal period. 30
(2) The applicant may act under subsection (1) only once. 31
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(3) If the representations are not made within 20 business days 1
after the giving of the suspension notice, the balance of the 2
applicant's appeal period restarts. 3
(4) If the representations are made within 20 business days after 4
the giving of the suspension notice-- 5
(a) if the applicant gives the local government a notice 6
withdrawing the suspension notice--the balance of the 7
applicant's appeal period restarts the day after the local 8
government receives the notice; or 9
(b) if the local government gives the applicant a notice 10
under section 185(6)--the balance of the applicant's 11
appeal period restarts the day after the applicant receives 12
the notice; or 13
(c) if the local government gives the applicant a negotiated 14
notice for the master plan application--the applicant's 15
appeal period starts again the day after the applicant 16
receives the notice. 17
187 When approval takes effect 18
If the proposed master plan is approved, or approved subject 19
to conditions, the plan takes effect-- 20
(a) if, after receiving notice of the decision under section 21
184, the applicant gives the local government written 22
notice that it will not be appealing the decision--from 23
when the written notice is given; or 24
(b) if, at the end of the applicant's appeal period, the 25
applicant has not appealed against the decision and no 26
notice has been given under paragraph (a)--at the end of 27
the applicant's appeal period; or 28
(c) if an appeal is made to the court, subject to the decision 29
of the court under section 496, when the appeal is finally 30
decided or withdrawn. 31
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188 Effect on decision stage if action taken under Native Title 1
Act (Cwlth) 2
(1) This section applies if a local government takes action under 3
the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth), section 24HA or 24KA 4
relating to the master plan application. 5
(2) If the local government takes the action before deciding the 6
application, the deciding of the application must not start until 7
the action is completed. 8
(3) If the local government takes the action after the local 9
government decision stage under this subdivision has started, 10
that stage stops the day after the action is taken and starts 11
again the day after the action is completed. 12
Subdivision 6 Ministerial directions about 13
application 14
189 Ministerial directions to local government 15
(1) This section applies if the Minister considers the local 16
government has not-- 17
(a) taken an action within the period required of it under 18
this division; or 19
(b) made a decision on representations made to it under 20
section 185. 21
(2) The Minister may, by written notice, direct the local 22
government to, within a stated reasonable period, take the 23
action or make a decision on the representations. 24
(3) The notice must state the reasons for deciding to give the 25
direction. 26
(4) The Minister must give the applicant and any coordinating 27
agency a copy of the notice. 28
(5) The local government must comply with the direction. 29
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190 Ministerial directions to applicant 1
(1) This section applies if the Minister considers the applicant has 2
not taken an action required of it under this division. 3
(2) The Minister may, by written notice, direct the applicant to 4
take the action within a stated reasonable period. 5
(3) The notice must state the reasons for deciding to give the 6
direction. 7
(4) The Minister must give the local government and any 8
coordinating agency a copy of the notice. 9
(5) The applicant must comply with the direction. 10
Subdivision 7 Changing or withdrawing 11
applications 12
191 Changing application 13
(1) Before the master plan application is decided by the local 14
government, the applicant may change the application by 15
giving the local government written notice of the change. 16
(2) The local government must give any coordinating agency a 17
copy of the notice as soon as practicable after receiving it. 18
(3) The steps under this division must be repeated for the 19
application as changed. 20
(4) However, subsection (3) does not apply if-- 21
(a) the change is-- 22
(i) to correct or change a matter mentioned in 23
subsection (5); or 24
(ii) in response to a request for information; and 25
(b) the local government is satisfied the change would not 26
adversely affect the ability of a person to assess the 27
changed application. 28
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(5) For subsection (4)(a)(i), the matters are any of the 1
following-- 2
(a) an explanatory matter about the proposed master plan; 3
(b) the format or presentation of the plan; 4
(c) a spelling, grammatical or mapping error in the plan; 5
(d) a factual error in the plan; 6
(e) a redundant or outdated term in the plan; 7
(f) a mistake about the applicant's name or address or the 8
owner of land in the master planning unit; 9
(g) a mistake about the street address, property description 10
or area of the master planning unit; 11
(h) the inconsistent numbering of provisions; 12
(i) a cross-reference in the plan. 13
192 Withdrawing application 14
(1) At any time before the master plan application is decided by 15
the local government, the applicant may withdraw the 16
application by giving written notice of the withdrawal to the 17
local government. 18
(2) The local government must give any coordinating agency a 19
copy of the notice as soon as practicable after receiving it. 20
Subdivision 8 Miscellaneous provisions 21
193 Agreements about master plan 22
The applicant may enter into an agreement with an entity, 23
including, for example, the local government or coordinating 24
agency or participating agency, to establish the obligations or 25
secure the performance of the proposed master plan or the 26
master plan when it takes effect. 27
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194 Substantial compliance 1
If the master plan is approved in substantial compliance with 2
this division and has taken effect, it is valid so long as any 3
noncompliance has not-- 4
(a) adversely affected the awareness of the public of the 5
existence and nature of the proposed master plan; or 6
(b) restricted the opportunity of the public to make a 7
properly made submission about the relevant master 8
plan application; or 9
(c) restricted the opportunity of a coordinating agency, a 10
participating agency or the local government to perform 11
their functions under this division. 12
195 Additional third party advice or comment 13
(1) The local government may, at any time before it decides the 14
master plan application, ask any person for advice or 15
comment about the application. 16
(2) However, asking for and receiving advice or comment does 17
not extend any period under this division. 18
(3) There is no particular way advice or comment may be asked 19
for and received and the request may be by publicly notifying 20
the application. 21
(4) To remove any doubt, it is declared that public notification 22
under subsection (3) does not constitute a public notice of the 23
application by the applicant. 24
196 Modified application of provisions about infrastructure 25
for master plan 26
(1) Chapter 8, parts 1 and 3 apply for a master plan and the 27
relevant master plan application for it-- 28
(a) as if a reference in the parts to a development 29
application were a reference to the master plan 30
application; and 31
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(b) as if a reference in the parts to an applicant were a 1
reference to a person who made the master plan 2
application; and 3
(c) as if a reference in the parts to a development approval 4
were a reference to an approval of a master plan; and 5
(d) as if a reference in the parts to a condition were a 6
reference to a condition included in a master plan; and 7
(e) as if a reference in the parts to a State infrastructure 8
provider were a reference to a coordinating agency; and 9
(f) as if a reference in the parts to an assessment manager 10
were a reference to the local government; and 11
(g) as if a reference in the parts to a concurrence agency 12
were a reference to a coordinating agency; and 13
(h) with other necessary changes. 14
(2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (1) does 15
not affect the operation of chapter 8, parts 1 and 3, for a 16
development application. 17
197 Notation of master plan on planning scheme 18
(1) This section applies if the master plan is approved and is in 19
force. 20
(2) The local government must-- 21
(a) note the master plan on its planning scheme; and 22
(b) give the chief executive written notice of the notation 23
and the land to which the note relates. 24
(3) The note is not an amendment of the planning scheme. 25
(4) Failure to comply with subsection (2) does not affect the 26
validity of the master plan. 27
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Division 4 Amending or cancelling master 1
plans 2
198 Application to amend master plan 3
(1) A person may apply to amend a master plan. 4
(2) The application must be made and decided under division 3 in 5
the same way as a master plan application as if the proposed 6
amendment were a proposed master plan. 7
(3) However, the written consent of an owner of land in the 8
master planning unit is not required if, in the local 9
government's opinion, the proposed amendment does not 10
materially affect the land. 11
(4) Subject to subsection (3), the local government may accept 12
the application even if it does not comply with the 13
requirements applying for an application under division 3. 14
199 Cancellation of master plan by local government 15
(1) The local government may cancel a master plan only if-- 16
(a) all owners of land in the master planning unit have given 17
written consent to the cancellation; and 18
(b) development under the plan has not started. 19
(2) In this section-- 20
cancel does not include amend or replace. 21
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Chapter 5 Designation of land for 1
community infrastructure 2
Part 1 Preliminary 3
200 Who may designate land 4
A Minister or a local government may, under this chapter, 5
designate land for community infrastructure prescribed under 6
a regulation for this section. 7
Note-- 8
In this chapter, Minister includes any Minister. See definition Minister 9
in schedule 3 (Dictionary). 10
201 Matters to be considered when designating land 11
Land may be designated for community infrastructure only if 12
the Minister or local government is satisfied the community 13
infrastructure will-- 14
(a) facilitate the implementation of legislation and policies 15
about environmental protection or ecological 16
sustainability; or 17
(b) facilitate the efficient allocation of resources; or 18
(c) satisfy statutory requirements or budgetary 19
commitments of the State or local government for the 20
supply of community infrastructure; or 21
(d) satisfy the community's expectations for the efficient 22
and timely supply of the infrastructure. 23
202 What designations may include 24
A designation may include-- 25
(a) requirements about works or the use of the land for the 26
community infrastructure, including the height, shape, 27
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bulk or location of the works on the land, vehicular 1
access to the land, vehicular and pedestrian circulation 2
on the land, hours of operation of the use, landscaping 3
on the land and ancillary uses of the land; and 4
(b) other requirements designed to lessen the impacts of the 5
works or the use of the land for community 6
infrastructure, including procedures for environmental 7
management. 8
203 How IDAS applies to designated land 9
Development under a designation is exempt development, to 10
the extent the development is either, or both, of the 11
following-- 12
(a) self-assessable development, development requiring 13
compliance assessment or assessable development 14
under a planning scheme; 15
(b) reconfiguring a lot. 16
204 Relationship of designation to State Development and 17
Public Works Organisation Act 1971 18
(1) Subsection (2) applies if land in a declared State development 19
area under the State Development and Public Works 20
Organisation Act 1971 is designated under this part. 21
(2) Despite section 84 of that Act, use of the land in accordance 22
with the designation-- 23
(a) is taken to be a use of the land in accordance with the 24
approved development scheme for the land under that 25
Act; and 26
(b) is not a use that contravenes section 84 of that Act. 27
205 How infrastructure charges apply to designated land 28
If a public sector entity that is a department or part of a 29
department proposes or starts development under a 30
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designation, the entity is not required to pay any charge for 1
infrastructure under chapter 8, part 1 for the development. 2
206 How designations must be shown in planning schemes 3
(1) If a local government designates land, or notes a designation 4
of land by the Minister on its planning scheme, the 5
designation or note must-- 6
(a) identify the land; and 7
(b) state the type of community infrastructure for which the 8
land was designated; and 9
(c) state the day the designation was made; and 10
(d) refer to any matters included as part of the designation 11
under section 202; and 12
(e) be shown in the planning scheme in a way that other 13
provisions in the planning scheme applying to the land 14
remain effective even if the designation is repealed or 15
ceases to have effect. 16
(2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that-- 17
(a) a designation is part of a planning scheme; and 18
(b) designation is not the only way community 19
infrastructure may be identified in a planning scheme; 20
and 21
(c) the provisions of a planning scheme, other than the 22
provision that designates land, applying to designated 23
land remain effective even if the designation is repealed 24
or ceases to have effect. 25
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Part 2 Ministerial designations 1
207 Matters the Minister must consider before designating 2
land 3
(1) Before designating land, the Minister must be satisfied that, 4
for the development the subject of the proposed designation-- 5
(a) adequate environmental assessment has been carried 6
out; and 7
(b) in carrying out environmental assessment under 8
paragraph (a), there was adequate public consultation; 9
and 10
(c) adequate account has been taken of issues raised during 11
the public consultation; and 12
(d) for land to which section 204 applies--adequate 13
account has been taken of the approved development 14
scheme mentioned in that section. 15
(2) The Minister must also consider-- 16
(a) every properly made submission under subsection (4); 17
and 18
(b) for land to which a State planning regulatory provision 19
applies--the provision; and 20
(c) for land in a designated region--the region's regional 21
plan; and 22
(d) each relevant State planning policy; and 23
(e) for land in a declared master planned area--any master 24
plans for the area; and 25
(f) each relevant local planning instrument. 26
(3) For subsection (1), there has been adequate environmental 27
assessment and public consultation in carrying out 28
environmental assessment if-- 29
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(a) the assessment and consultation has been carried out as 1
required by guidelines made by the chief executive 2
under section 760 for assessing the impacts of the 3
development; or 4
(b) the processes under chapter 6, part 4 and part 5, division 5
2, have been completed for a development application 6
for the community infrastructure to which the 7
designation relates; or 8
(c) the process under chapter 9, part 2, division 2, has been 9
completed for an EIS for development for the 10
community infrastructure; or 11
(d) public notification has been carried out for a planning 12
scheme, or an amendment of a planning scheme, that 13
includes the community infrastructure, under the 14
guideline mentioned in section 117(1); or 15
(e) public notification has been carried out for a structure 16
plan for a declared master planned area that includes the 17
community infrastructure, under the guideline 18
mentioned in section 145; or 19
(f) the coordinator-general has, under the State 20
Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971, 21
section 35, prepared a report evaluating an EIS for, or 22
including, development for the community 23
infrastructure; or 24
(g) the process under the Environmental Protection Act, 25
chapter 3, part 1 has been completed for an EIS for 26
development for the community infrastructure. 27
Editor's note-- 28
Environmental Protection Act, chapter 3 (Environmental impact 29
statements), part 1 (EIS process) 30
(4) However, if written notice of the proposed designation has not 31
been given to each of the following entities about an action 32
mentioned in subsection (3), the Minister must give written 33
notice of the proposed designation to the entities inviting 34
submissions about the proposed designation-- 35
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(a) the owner of any land to which the proposed designation 1
applies; 2
(b) each local government the Minister is satisfied the 3
designation affects. 4
(5) A notice given under subsection (4) must give the entities at 5
least 15 business days to make a submission. 6
208 Procedures after designation 7
(1) If the Minister designates land, the Minister must give a notice 8
to-- 9
(a) each owner of the land; and 10
(b) each local government the Minister is satisfied the 11
designation affects; and 12
(c) the chief executive. 13
(2) The notice must state each of the following-- 14
(a) that the designation has been made; 15
(b) the description of the land; 16
(c) the type of community infrastructure for which the land 17
has been designated; 18
(d) any matters mentioned in section 202 and included as 19
part of the designation. 20
(3) The Minister must also publish a gazette notice stating the 21
matters mentioned in subsection (2)(a) to (c). 22
209 Procedures if designation does not proceed 23
If the Minister decides not to proceed with a proposed 24
designation, the Minister must give a notice, stating that the 25
designation will not proceed, to the persons mentioned in 26
section 208(1)(a) and (b). 27
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210 Effects of ministerial designations 1
A designation made under this part-- 2
(a) if the designation states that it replaces an existing 3
designation--replaces the existing designation; and 4
(b) has effect on and from-- 5
(i) the day the designation is notified in the gazette; or 6
(ii) if a later day for the commencement of the 7
designation is stated in the notice--the later day. 8
211 When local government must include designation in 9
planning scheme 10
(1) If a local government receives a notice from a Minister stating 11
that the Minister has made a designation in or near its 12
planning scheme area, the local government must note the 13
designation on-- 14
(a) its planning scheme (if any); and 15
(b) any new planning scheme it makes before the 16
designation ceases to have effect. 17
(2) The note is not an amendment of the planning scheme. 18
Part 3 Local government designations 19
212 Designation of land by local government 20
(1) A local government may only designate land by using the 21
process stated in the guideline mentioned in section 117(1) to 22
include the designation as a substantive provision of its 23
planning scheme. 24
(2) Subsection (1) applies whether or not the local government 25
owns the land. 26
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(3) However, land identified in a priority infrastructure plan as 1
land for community infrastructure is not designated land 2
unless it is also specifically identified as designated land. 3
213 Designating land the local government does not own 4
(1) This section applies if the local government proposes to 5
designate land it does not own. 6
(2) Before the start of the consultation period for making or 7
amending a planning scheme intended to include the 8
designation, the local government must give written notice of 9
the proposed designation to the owner of the land. 10
(3) The notice must state the following-- 11
(a) the description of the land proposed to be designated, 12
including a plan of the land; 13
(b) the type of community infrastructure for which the 14
designation is proposed; 15
(c) the reasons for the designation; 16
(d) that written submissions about any aspect of the 17
proposed designation may be given to the local 18
government during the consultation period. 19
Part 4 Duration and reconfirmation of 20
designations 21
214 Duration of designations 22
(1) A designation ceases to have effect-- 23
(a) if the designation is made by a Minister--6 years after 24
notice of the designation was published in the gazette 25
(the designation cessation day); or 26
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(b) if the designation is made by a local government--6 1
years after the planning scheme or amendment that 2
incorporated the designation took effect (also the 3
designation cessation day). 4
(2) If, after designating land but before the designation cessation 5
day, a local government makes a new planning scheme and 6
includes an existing designation as a substantive provision of 7
the new planning scheme-- 8
(a) the existing designation continues to have effect until its 9
designation cessation day under subsection (1); and 10
(b) section 213 does not apply to remaking the designation 11
in the new planning scheme. 12
215 When designations do not cease 13
(1) A designation does not cease to have effect on the designation 14
cessation day if-- 15
(a) on the designation cessation day, an entity other than a 16
public sector entity or the local government owns, or has 17
a public utility easement over, the designated land and 18
construction of community infrastructure started before 19
the designation cessation day; or 20
(b) on the designation cessation day, a public sector entity 21
or the local government owns, or has a public utility 22
easement, for the same purpose as the designation, over, 23
the designated land; or 24
(c) before the designation cessation day, a public sector 25
entity or the local government gave a notice of intention 26
to resume the designated land under the Acquisition 27
Act, section 7; or 28
(d) before the designation cessation day, a public sector 29
entity or the local government signed an agreement to 30
take under the Acquisition Act or to otherwise buy the 31
designated land; or 32
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(e) for a designation made by the Minister--before the 1
designation cessation day, the Minister gave the local 2
government written notice reconfirming the designation. 3
(2) However, if a public sector entity or a local government 4
discontinues proceedings to resume designated land, whether 5
before or after the designation cessation day, the designation 6
ceases to have effect the day the proceedings are 7
discontinued. 8
(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a designation of land 9
or any notice given to an owner about a designation of land 10
does not constitute a notice of intention to resume under the 11
Acquisition Act, section 7. 12
216 Reconfirming designation 13
(1) If the Minister gives a local government written notice under 14
section 215(1)(e) reconfirming a designation-- 15
(a) the local government must display the notice in a 16
conspicuous place in the local government's public 17
office; and 18
(b) the Minister must-- 19
(i) give the owner of the land a copy of the notice; and 20
(ii) publish the notice in the gazette; and 21
(c) the designation has effect for another 6 years after the 22
notice is published in the gazette. 23
(2) When a local government receives a notice from the Minister 24
reconfirming a designation in or near its planning scheme 25
area, the local government must again note the designation 26
on-- 27
(a) its planning scheme (if any); and 28
(b) any new planning scheme it makes before the 29
designation ceases to have effect. 30
(3) The note is not an amendment of the planning scheme. 31
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(4) A reconfirmation of a designation is taken to be a designation 1
to which sections 214 and 215 apply. 2
Part 5 Repealing designations 3
217 Who may repeal designations 4
(1) A Minister may repeal a designation made by the Minister. 5
(2) A local government may repeal a designation made by the 6
local government. 7
218 Notice of repeal 8
(1) The repeal of a designation must be made by publishing a 9
notice of repeal of the designation-- 10
(a) in the gazette; and 11
(b) in a newspaper circulating generally in the area where 12
the designated land is situated. 13
(2) The notice must state the following-- 14
(a) that the designation has been repealed; 15
(b) the description of the land to which the designation 16
applied; 17
(c) the purpose of the community infrastructure for which 18
the land was designated; 19
(d) the reasons for the decision. 20
219 Minister or local government to give notice of repeal to 21
particular entities 22
(1) If the repeal is made by a Minister, the Minister must give a 23
copy of the notice to-- 24
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(a) each local government to which a notice about the 1
making of the designation was given; and 2
(b) if the land is owned by an entity other than the State or 3
the local government--the owner; and 4
(c) the chief executive. 5
(2) If the repeal is made by a local government and the land is 6
owned by an entity other than the local government, the local 7
government must give a copy of the notice to the owner. 8
220 When designation ceases to have effect 9
The designation ceases to have effect on the day the notice is 10
published in the gazette. 11
221 Local government to note repeal on planning scheme 12
(1) If a local government repeals a designation or receives a 13
notice from the Minister advising that the Minister has 14
repealed a designation, the local government must note the 15
repeal on its planning scheme. 16
(2) The note is not an amendment of the planning scheme. 17
Part 6 Acquiring designated land 18
222 Request to acquire designated land under hardship 19
(1) Subsection (3) applies if the owner of an interest in designated 20
land (the designated interest) is suffering hardship because of 21
the designation. 22
(2) However, subsection (3) does not apply if-- 23
(a) the designated land is land-- 24
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(i) over which there is an existing public utility 1
easement; or 2
(ii) for which a process has started under the 3
Acquisition Act to acquire a public utility 4
easement; and 5
(b) the designation is for community infrastructure for 6
which the easement exists or is being acquired. 7
(3) The owner may ask the designator to buy-- 8
(a) the designated interest; or 9
(b) if the owner has an interest in land adjoining the 10
designated land and retaining the interest without the 11
designated interest would also cause the owner 12
hardship--the designated interest and the interest in the 13
land adjoining the designated land. 14
223 Decision about request 15
(1) The designator must, within 40 business days after the request 16
is received, decide to-- 17
(a) grant the request; or 18
(b) take other action under section 226; or 19
(c) refuse the request. 20
(2) In deciding whether or not the owner is suffering hardship, the 21
designator must consider each of the following-- 22
(a) whether the owner must sell an interest mentioned in 23
section 222(3)(a) or (b) without delay for personal 24
reasons, including to avoid loss of income, and has tried 25
unsuccessfully to sell the interest at a fair market value 26
(disregarding the designation); 27
(b) whether the owner has a genuine intent to develop the 28
interest, but development approval has been, or is likely 29
to be, refused because of the designation; 30
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(c) the extent to which development would be viable 1
because of the designation if the owner exercised rights 2
conferred under any development approval. 3
224 Notice about grant of request 4
If the designator decides to grant the request, the designator 5
must, within 5 business days after deciding the request, give 6
the owner a notice stating the designator proposes to buy the 7
nominated interest. 8
225 Notice about refusal of request 9
If the designator decides to refuse the request, the designator 10
must, within 5 business days after deciding the request, give 11
the owner a notice stating-- 12
(a) the request has been refused; and 13
(b) the owner may appeal against the decision. 14
226 Alternative action designator may take 15
If the designator decides not to buy the nominated interest, the 16
designator may, instead of taking action under section 225 and 17
within 5 business days after deciding the request, give the 18
owner a notice stating that the designator proposes to-- 19
(a) exchange the nominated interest for property held by the 20
designator; or 21
(b) repeal the designation or remove the designation from 22
the designated interest; or 23
(c) investigate the removal of the designation from the 24
designated interest. 25
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227 If the designator does not act under the notice 1
(1) This section applies if the designator gave a notice under 2
section 224 or 226 and, within 40 business days after giving 3
the notice, the designator has not-- 4
(a) signed an agreement with the owner to buy the 5
nominated interest or to take the nominated interest 6
under the Acquisition Act, section 15; or 7
(b) signed an agreement with the owner to exchange the 8
nominated interest; or 9
(c) repealed the designation or removed the designation 10
from the designated interest. 11
(2) The designator must, within 5 business days after the end of 12
the period mentioned in subsection (1), give the owner a 13
notice of intention to resume the nominated interest. 14
(3) The notice given under subsection (2) is taken to be a notice 15
of intention to resume given under the Acquisition Act, 16
section 7. 17
(4) However, the Acquisition Act, sections 13 and 41, do not 18
apply to the resumption. 19
Editor's note-- 20
Acquisition Act, sections 7 (Notice of intention to take land), 13 21
(Provision for taking particular additional land), 15 (Taking by 22
agreement) and 41 (Disposal of land) 23
228 How value of interest is decided 24
If an interest in designated land is taken under the Acquisition 25
Act, the effect of the designation must be disregarded in 26
deciding the value of the interest taken. 27
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Part 7 Delegation of Minister's 1
functions 2
229 Ministers may delegate particular administrative 3
functions about designations 4
A Minister may delegate the Minister's functions under 5
sections 208, 209 and 224 to 227 to-- 6
(a) the chief executive or a senior executive of any 7
department for which the Minister has responsibility; or 8
(b) the chief executive officer of a public sector entity. 9
Chapter 6 Integrated development 10
assessment system (IDAS) 11
Part 1 Preliminary 12
Division 1 Introduction 13
230 What is IDAS 14
IDAS is the system detailed in this chapter for integrating 15
State and local government assessment and approval 16
processes for development. 17
231 Categories of development under Act 18
(1) The categories of development under this Act are as follows-- 19
(a) exempt development; 20
(b) self-assessable development; 21
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(c) development requiring compliance assessment; 1
(d) assessable development; 2
(e) prohibited development. 3
(2) Under this Act, all development is exempt development unless 4
it is-- 5
(a) self-assessable development; or 6
(b) development requiring compliance assessment; or 7
(c) assessable development; or 8
(d) prohibited development. 9
232 Regulation may prescribe categories of development or 10
require code or impact assessment 11
(1) A regulation may prescribe that development is-- 12
(a) self-assessable development; or 13
(b) development requiring compliance assessment; or 14
(c) assessable development. 15
Note-- 16
See section 397(3) for matters a regulation under subsection (1)(b) must 17
state. 18
(2) Also, a regulation may prescribe development that a planning 19
scheme, a temporary local planning instrument, a preliminary 20
approval to which section 242 applies or a master plan can not 21
declare to be self-assessable development, development 22
requiring compliance assessment, assessable development or 23
prohibited development. 24
(3) In addition, a regulation may require code or impact 25
assessment, or both code and impact assessment, for 26
assessable development. 27
Note-- 28
Under this Act, the following also may state that development is 29
self-assessable development, development requiring compliance 30
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assessment or assessable development requiring code or impact 1
assessment, or both code and impact assessment-- 2
(a) a State planning regulatory provision; 3
(b) a structure plan; 4
(c) a master plan; 5
(d) a temporary local planning instrument; 6
(e) a preliminary approval to which section 242 applies; 7
(f) a planning scheme. 8
233 Relationship between regulation and planning scheme, 9
temporary local planning instrument or local law 10
(1) To the extent a planning scheme or temporary local planning 11
instrument is inconsistent with a regulation made under 12
section 232(1) or (2), the planning scheme or temporary local 13
planning instrument is of no effect. 14
(2) However, to the extent a planning scheme or temporary local 15
planning instrument is inconsistent with a regulation made 16
under section 232(1) because the planning scheme or 17
temporary local planning instrument states development is 18
self-assessable but the regulation states the development is 19
assessable-- 20
(a) codes in the planning scheme or temporary local 21
planning instrument for the development are not 22
applicable codes; but 23
(b) must be complied with. 24
(3) If a regulation requires code assessment for development, a 25
planning scheme or temporary local planning instrument can 26
not require impact assessment instead of code assessment for 27
the aspect of development the code is about. 28
(4) To the extent a planning scheme or temporary local planning 29
instrument is inconsistent with a regulation mentioned in 30
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section 232(3), for assessable development, the planning 1
scheme or temporary local planning instrument is of no effect. 2
(5) Subsections (3) and (4) apply whether the regulation was 3
made before or after the commencement of the planning 4
scheme or temporary local planning instrument. 5
(6) A regulation under this or another Act may also identify a 6
code, or a part of a code, as a code, or a part of a code, that can 7
not be changed under a local planning instrument or a local 8
law. 9
(7) To the extent a local planning instrument or a local law is 10
inconsistent with the scope of a code, or a part of a code, 11
identified in the regulation mentioned in subsection (6), the 12
local planning instrument or local law is of no effect. 13
234 Relationship between sch 1 and planning instruments 14
To the extent a planning instrument purports to provide for 15
any matter about development that is prohibited development 16
under schedule 1, the planning instrument is of no effect. 17
Division 2 Particular provisions about 18
categories of development 19
235 Exempt development 20
(1) A development permit is not necessary for exempt 21
development. 22
(2) Also, exempt development need not comply with master plans 23
for declared master planned areas or planning instruments, 24
other than a State planning regulatory provision. 25
(3) Nothing in subsection (2) stops a planning instrument, a 26
master plan for a declared master planned area, a development 27
approval or compliance permit affecting exempt development 28
if-- 29
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(a) the development is the natural and ordinary 1
consequence of another aspect of development that is 2
self-assessable development, development requiring 3
compliance assessment or assessable development; and 4
(b) the effect mitigates impacts of the self-assessable 5
development, development requiring compliance 6
assessment or assessable development. 7
Example for subsection (3)-- 8
A development approval for a material change of use may include 9
conditions, including, for example, conditions about landscaping, 10
parking or buildings that are the natural and ordinary consequence of the 11
material change of use if the conditions would mitigate impacts, 12
including, for example, visual amenity, noise or traffic generation, of the 13
material change of use. 14
236 Self-assessable development 15
(1) A development permit is not necessary for self-assessable 16
development. 17
(2) However, self-assessable development must comply with 18
applicable codes. 19
Note-- 20
It is an offence to carry out self-assessable development in contravention 21
of applicable codes. See section 574 (Self-assessable development must 22
comply with codes). 23
237 Development requiring compliance assessment 24
(1) A development permit is not necessary for development 25
requiring compliance assessment. 26
(2) A compliance permit is necessary for development requiring 27
compliance assessment. 28
Note-- 29
It is an offence to carry out development requiring compliance 30
assessment without a compliance permit. See section 575 (Carrying out 31
development without compliance permit). 32
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238 Assessable development 1
A development permit is necessary for assessable 2
development. 3
Note-- 4
It is an offence to carry out assessable development without a 5
development permit. See section 578 (Carrying out assessable 6
development without permit). 7
239 Prohibited development 8
(1) An application or request for compliance assessment can not 9
be made for development if the development is prohibited 10
development. 11
(2) If an application or request for compliance assessment is 12
made and any part of the development applied for is 13
prohibited development, the application or request is taken not 14
to have been made and IDAS does not apply to it. 15
Note-- 16
It is an offence to carry out development that is prohibited development. 17
See section 581 (Offence to carry out prohibited development). 18
Division 3 Approvals for IDAS 19
Subdivision 1 Preliminary 20
240 Types of approval 21
The types of approval under this Act for IDAS are-- 22
(a) a preliminary approval; and 23
(b) a development permit; and 24
(c) a compliance permit; and 25
(d) a compliance certificate. 26
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See part 10 (Compliance stage) for provisions about compliance permits 2
and compliance certificates. 3
Subdivision 2 Preliminary approvals 4
241 Preliminary approvals 5
(1) A preliminary approval-- 6
(a) approves development, but does not authorise assessable 7
development to take place; and 8
(b) approves development-- 9
(i) to the extent stated in the approval; and 10
(ii) subject to the conditions of the approval. 11
(2) However, there is no requirement to get a preliminary 12
approval for development. 13
Note-- 14
Preliminary approvals assist in the staging of approvals. 15
242 Preliminary approval may affect a local planning 16
instrument 17
(1) This section applies if-- 18
(a) an applicant applies for a preliminary approval; and 19
(b) part of the application states the way in which the 20
applicant seeks the approval to vary the effect of any 21
local planning instrument for the land. 22
Note-- 23
A preliminary approval to which this section applies may be made for a 24
master planned area only if so permitted under the structure plan for the 25
area. See section 134 (Restriction on particular development 26
applications in master planned area). 27
(2) Subsection (3) applies to the extent the application is for-- 28
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(a) development that is a material change of use; and 1
(b) the part mentioned in subsection (1)(b). 2
(3) If the preliminary approval approves the material change of 3
use, the preliminary approval may, in addition to the things an 4
approval may do under part 5, do either or both of the 5
following for the material change of use or development 6
relating to the material change of use-- 7
(a) state that the development is-- 8
(i) exempt development; or 9
(ii) self-assessable development; or 10
(iii) development requiring compliance assessment; or 11
(iv) assessable development requiring code or impact 12
assessment, or both code and impact assessment; 13
(b) identify or include codes for the development. 14
Note-- 15
For other things that a preliminary approval to which this section applies 16
may do, see part 10 (Compliance stage). 17
(4) Subsection (5) applies to the extent the application is for-- 18
(a) development other than a material change of use; and 19
(b) the part mentioned in subsection (1)(b). 20
(5) If the preliminary approval approves the development, the 21
preliminary approval may, in addition to the things an 22
approval may do under part 5, do either or both of the 23
following for the development-- 24
(a) state that the development is-- 25
(i) exempt development; or 26
(ii) self-assessable development; or 27
(iii) development requiring compliance assessment; or 28
(iv) assessable development requiring code or impact 29
assessment, or both code and impact assessment; 30
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(b) identify or include codes for the development. 1
(6) To the extent the preliminary approval, by doing either or both 2
of the things mentioned in subsection (3) or (5), is different 3
from the local planning instrument, the approval prevails. 4
(7) However, subsection (3) or (5) no longer applies to 5
development mentioned in subsection