Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Planning and Environment (Planning Schemes) Act 1996 - SECT 25

Applications for permits

25. Applications for permits



(1) Any application for a permit in respect of land which was made under the
Principal Act but which had not been decided before the commencement of a new
planning scheme prepared under this Part and applying to that land must be
decided in accordance with the provisions of the new planning scheme as in
force at the date of the decision.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), Part 4 of the Principal Act as amended by this
Act applies to an application referred to in subsection (1) as if a reference
in that Part to a planning scheme were a reference to the new planning scheme.

(3) If notice had been given of an application under section 52 of the
Principal Act before the commencement of the new planning scheme-

   (a)  any exemption in the new planning scheme from the giving of that
        notice does not apply; and

   (b)  any additional requirements for notice in the new planning scheme do
        not apply.