STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 67
Referral of applications
STATE DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS ORGANISATION ACT 1971 - SECT 67
Referral of applications
67 Referral of applications
(1) Where a proposed development, processing or handling has been declared to
be a prescribed development every application relating to the proposed
development, processing or handling that—
(a) has been made to a local body
at the time such declaration is made; or
(b) at any time after the making of
such declaration is made to a local body;
shall be referred by the local body
to the Coordinator-General and the local body shall have no jurisdiction to
deal with any such application otherwise than is prescribed by this division
unless it is remitted by the Coordinator-General to the local body as
hereinafter prescribed.
(2) Reference by a local body to the
Coordinator-General of an application shall be made—
(a) in the case of an
application that has been made to the local body at the time the relevant
proposed development is declared to be a prescribed development—forthwith
upon the local body being notified under section 58of the declaration; and
(b) in the case of an application that is made at any time after the relevant
proposed development is declared to be a prescribed development—as soon as
is practicable after the application is received by the local body.
(3) An
application required by law to be made to a local body shall be made to that
local body notwithstanding that it relates to a prescribed development.