Economic Development Act 2012
sec.51Existing PDA development applications
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sec.51 Existing PDA development applications
This section applies to a PDA development application made, but not decided, before the cessation for the former PDA land or former PDA-associated development. The PDA development application must continue to be decided under this Act as if— the cessation had not happened; and the PDA development application were being decided immediately before the cessation. If a PDA development approval is given for the PDA development application, the approval is, immediately after it takes effect under this Act, taken to be a development approval under the Planning Act that took effect at the same time as the PDA development approval. However, subsection (3) does not apply to the extent the PDA development approval involves a water connection aspect. For the effect of the cessation of a priority development area or PDA-associated development on the water connection aspect of a PDA development approval given under this section, see division 4A . s 51 amd 2016 No. 27 s 179 sub 2019 No. 11 s 39 (sec.51-ssec.1) This section applies to a PDA development application made, but not decided, before the cessation for the former PDA land or former PDA-associated development. (sec.51-ssec.2) The PDA development application must continue to be decided under this Act as if— the cessation had not happened; and the PDA development application were being decided immediately before the cessation. (sec.51-ssec.3) If a PDA development approval is given for the PDA development application, the approval is, immediately after it takes effect under this Act, taken to be a development approval under the Planning Act that took effect at the same time as the PDA development approval. (sec.51-ssec.4) However, subsection (3) does not apply to the extent the PDA development approval involves a water connection aspect. For the effect of the cessation of a priority development area or PDA-associated development on the water connection aspect of a PDA development approval given under this section, see division 4A .
- (a) the cessation had not happened; and
- (b) the PDA development application were being decided immediately before the cessation.