2BRemote areas designated (Act s. 4B)

2B. Remote areas designated (Act s. 4B)

(1) In this regulation —

ASGS means the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 5 ‑ Remoteness Structure, July 2016 (catalogue number 1270.0.55.005) published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

(2) Except as provided in subregulation (3), for the purposes of the Act, an area of the State is designated as a remote area if —

(a) the area is classified as “Very Remote Australia”, “Remote Australia”, “Outer Regional Australia” or “Inner Regional Australia” under the ASGS; or

(b) the area shares the same postcode as an area referred to in paragraph (a).

(3) The following areas of the State are not remote areas —

(a) an area of the State that is located within the metropolitan region;

(b) an area of the State that shares the same postcode as an area referred to in paragraph (a).

[Regulation 2B inserted: SL 2020/167 r. 5; amended: SL 2023/120 r. 23.]