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Environmental Protection Act 1994
sec.581Integrated development approval system regulations and guidelines
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### sec.581 Integrated development approval system regulations and guidelines
This section applies if the administering authority delegates the authority’s powers under this Act to a local government.
A regulation may make provision about, or empower the administering authority to make guidelines about—
the policy objectives and criteria to which the local government must have regard; and
the way in which the local government must exercise a delegated power, including, for example, time limits for the making of decisions; and
appeals from the local government’s decisions; and
the cases involving the exercise of a delegated power that must be referred to the administering authority or someone else for decision, including the criteria to be applied in deciding whether a particular case must be referred; and
the conditions to which an authority issued by the delegate must be subject; and
the consequences of contravention of the regulation or guidelines.
This section does not limit the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 27A .
(sec.581-ssec.1) This section applies if the administering authority delegates the authority’s powers under this Act to a local government.
(sec.581-ssec.2) A regulation may make provision about, or empower the administering authority to make guidelines about— the policy objectives and criteria to which the local government must have regard; and the way in which the local government must exercise a delegated power, including, for example, time limits for the making of decisions; and appeals from the local government’s decisions; and the cases involving the exercise of a delegated power that must be referred to the administering authority or someone else for decision, including the criteria to be applied in deciding whether a particular case must be referred; and the conditions to which an authority issued by the delegate must be subject; and the consequences of contravention of the regulation or guidelines.
(sec.581-ssec.3) This section does not limit the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 27A .
- (a) the policy objectives and criteria to which the local government must have regard; and
- (b) the way in which the local government must exercise a delegated power, including, for example, time limits for the making of decisions; and
- (c) appeals from the local government’s decisions; and
- (d) the cases involving the exercise of a delegated power that must be referred to the administering authority or someone else for decision, including the criteria to be applied in deciding whether a particular case must be referred; and
- (e) the conditions to which an authority issued by the delegate must be subject; and
- (f) the consequences of contravention of the regulation or guidelines.