• Specific Year
    Any

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 85

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 85

85 .         Local government’s duties if proposed scheme or amendment to be assessed under EP Act

        (1)         When a local government has been informed under section 48A(1)(b)(i) of the EP Act that a proposed local planning scheme or amendment referred to the EPA under section 81 should be assessed by the EPA under Part IV Division 3 of the EP Act, the local government is to —

            (a)         as soon as practicable, but in any event within 7 days after the expiry of the period during which that local planning scheme or amendment is advertised under section 84, transmit to the EPA a copy of each submission —

                  (i)         made during that period; and

                  (ii)         relating wholly or in part to environmental issues raised by that local planning scheme or amendment;

                and

            (b)         within 42 days, or such longer period as the Minister allows, after the expiry of the period referred to in paragraph (a) inform the EPA of its views on and response to the environmental issues referred to in paragraph (a) and received within that period.

        [Section 85 amended: No. 26 of 2020 s. 48.]