59Illegal car parks

59 Illegal car parks

59 Illegal car parks

(1) This section applies to land that is within 5 kilometres of any major event area.

(2) During the parking control period, a person must not use land to which this section applies for the purpose of a car park (whether or not for fee or reward) if the use of the land for that purpose by the person is not lawful under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units in the case of an individual and 250 penalty units in the case of a corporation and, in the case of a continuing offence by an individual or corporation, 20 penalty units for each day the offence continues.

(3) This section does not limit the operation of any other Act that enables proceedings to be taken in respect of the unlawful use of land.

(4) In this section, parking control period means the period specified by a Ministerial order for the purposes of this section.

(5) A Ministerial order for the purposes of the definition of parking control period in subsection (4) that extends a parking control period may be made before or during that period.

s 59: Am 2022 No 12, Sch 1[15]; 2024 No 76, Sch 4[16] [25].