60ZBPlanning compliance certificates to be obtained

60ZB Planning compliance certificates to be obtained

(1)  A person must not develop a single dwelling development, or a low risk development, unless there is a planning compliance certificate in relation to the development.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 200 penalty units.

(2)  If a person is convicted of an offence against subsection (1) , the court may order the person to pay to the planning authority the reasonable costs incurred by the authority in investigating the offence or prosecuting the offence, or both.

(3)  If a person is convicted of an offence against subsection (1) , the court mayorder that –

(a) the person is required to carry out, within the period specified in the order, work specified in the order; and

(b) if the person does not carry out the work within that period and the relevant planning authority carries out the work under subsection (5) , the person is liable to the planning authority for the reasonable costs incurred by the authority in carrying out the work.

(4)  The work that may be specified in an order under subsection (3) in relation to a person is work that will ensure that a development or use carried out by the person on land is in accordance with the planning scheme, or special planning order, that applies to the land.

(5)  If a court makes an order of a kind referred to in subsection (3) in relation to a person and the person does not, within the period specified in the order, carry out the work specified in the order, the relevant planning authority may carry out the work.

(6)  Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a development that commenced before the day on which this section commences.