63AEnforcing compliance with planning schemes

63A Enforcing compliance with planning schemes

[Section 63A Inserted by No. 49 of 2001, s. 34, Applied:16 Jul 2001]

(1)  [Section 63A Subsection (1) amended by No. 47 of 2015, s. 29, Applied:17 Dec 2015] A planning authority that does not take all reasonable steps to ensure that a planning scheme that has effect in respect of an area within its municipal district is complied with is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

(2)  A planning authority convicted of an offence against subsection (1) is liable to a fine not exceeding 500 penalty units, and a planning authority who is so convicted in respect of a continuing contravention of this section –

(a) is liable, in addition to the penalty otherwise applicable to that offence, to a fine for each day during which the contravention continued of not more than 500 penalty units; and

(b) if the contravention continues after the planning authority is convicted, is guilty of a further offence and is liable, in addition to the penalty otherwise applicable to that further offence, to a fine for each day during which the contravention continued after that conviction of not more than 50 penalty units.