PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 72

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 72

72 .         Local government may prepare or adopt scheme

        (1)         Subject to section 71, a local government may —

            (a)         prepare a local planning scheme with reference to any land within its district, or with reference to land within its district and other land within any adjacent district; or

            (b)         adopt, with or without modifications, a local planning scheme proposed by all or any of the owners of any land with respect to which the local government might itself have prepared a scheme.

        (2)         A local government and another local government may —

            (a)         jointly prepare a local planning scheme with respect to land that is partly in the district of the first-mentioned local government and partly in the district of the other local government; or

            (b)         jointly adopt, with or without modifications, a local planning scheme proposed by all or any of the owners of any land with respect to which the local governments might themselves have prepared a scheme.

        (3)         Where a local planning scheme is prepared or adopted under subsection (2) a reference in this Act to the local government or responsible authority that is preparing or has prepared the scheme is to be read as a reference to the local governments that join in the preparation or adoption of the scheme.