SCHEDULE 4 - Savings and Trans SCHEDULE 4 - Savings and Transitional Provisions

Section 87A

1.   Interpretation

(1) In this Schedule –[Schedule 4 Amended by No. 49 of 2001, s. 37, Applied:16 Jul 2001]

prior scheme means a planning scheme made or deemed to have been made under Part XVIII of the Local Government Act 1962 .

(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, words and expressions used in this Act have the same respective meanings in this Schedule.

2.   Operation date of certain draft planning schemes and amendments

(1) A draft planning scheme which, before the commencement of the Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment Act 1995 , was given final approval by the Panel under section 29 without a specified date of operation is taken to have come into operation on the date of that final approval.

(2) A draft amendment which, before the commencement of the Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment Act 1995 , was given final approval by the Panel under section 42 without a specified date of operation is taken to have come into operation on the date of that final approval.

3.   Removal of doubts in relation to prior schemes, &c.

(1) Any planning scheme or interim order finally approved under Part XVIII of the Local Government Act 1962 and in force at the commencement of the Land Use Planning and Approvals (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 1993 is valid and effective, from the day on which it was finally approved, in relation to land that is, or has been, Crown land or vested in a State authority.