3Definitions

3 Definitions

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:

agent includes every person who in the State, for or on behalf of any person out of the State (in this definition termed the principal) has the control or disposal of any land belonging to the principal or the control, receipt or disposal of any rents, issues or proceeds derived from any such land.

Appeals Board means the Appeals Board constituted under section 59.

assessment means an assessment of contribution under Part 3.

Authority means the New South Wales Planning and Environment Commission constituted under the New South Wales Planning and Environment Commission Act 1974.

base date means the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine.

contribution means development contribution calculated at the rates fixed by the Contribution Act on the leviable increase in the price of land or on the leviable increase in the value of land.

Contribution Act means the Land Development Contribution Act 1970.

contributor means a person who may be assessed for contribution in accordance with this Act.

council has the meaning ascribed thereto in section 4 of the Local Government Act 1919.

county council means a county council constituted under the Local Government Act 1919.

Court means the Land and Environment Court.

Crown land has the same meaning as in the Crown Land Management Act 2016.

declared land means any land to which an order under section 11 applies, being an order published in the Gazette on or before 7 February 1973.

development has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection (1) of section 342T of the Local Government Act 1919.

Fund means the Land Development Contribution Fund established under Part 7.

interim development order has the meaning ascribed thereto in subsection (1) of section 342T of the Local Government Act 1919.

joint organisation has the same meaning as in the Local Government Act 1993.

land includes land the owner of which is the Crown or a body corporate that is constituted by or under any Act and is deemed by that or any other Act to be a statutory body representing the Crown or to represent the Crown.