PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 3

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 3

3 .         Purposes and interpretation of this Act

        (1)         The purposes of this Act are to —

            (a)         consolidate the provisions of the Acts repealed by the Planning and Development (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2005 (the Metropolitan Region Town Planning Scheme Act 1959 , the Town Planning and Development Act 1928 and the Western Australian Planning Commission Act 1985 ) in a rewritten form; and

            (b)         provide for an efficient and effective land use planning system in the State; and

            (c)         promote the sustainable use and development of land in the State.

        (2)         If —

            (a)         the Metropolitan Region Town Planning Scheme Act 1959 , the Town Planning and Development Act 1928 or the Western Australian Planning Commission Act 1985 expressed an idea in a particular form of words; and

            (b)         this Act appears to have expressed the same idea in a different form of words in order to use a clearer or simpler style,

                the ideas are not to be taken to be different just because different forms of words were used.