11Effect of order declaring major infrastructure project

11 Effect of order declaring major infrastructure project

(1)  If an order under section 7(2) declaring a project to be a major infrastructure project is made –

(a) notwithstanding the terms of any relevant planning scheme or special planning order, each use or development comprised in the major infrastructure project is taken to be a use or development which the planning authority which administers that planning scheme or special planning order has a discretion to refuse or permit under section 57 of the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 ; and

(b) notwithstanding the terms of any relevant planning scheme or special planning order, the planning authority which administers the planning scheme or special planning order may, subject to section 12(1) and the requirements of any State Policy, determine an application for a permit in respect of a use or development comprised in the major infrastructure project in such manner as it thinks fit; and

(c) the major infrastructure project is taken to be a public purpose for the purposes of section 4(3) of the Land Acquisition Act 1993 ; and

(d) section 73(3)(a) of the Land Acquisition Act 1993 does not apply to any land acquired under that Act for the purposes of the major infrastructure project; and

(e) an application to a planning authority under section 51(1A) of the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 may relate to all of the uses or developments comprised in the major infrastructure project, or such number of the uses or developments comprised in the major infrastructure project as the applicant may choose; and

(f) for the purpose of section 57(6)(b) of the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 , the Minister may by order specify a further period within which a planning authority must grant or refuse to grant a permit specified in the order, with the result that, for the purposes of of the , any such further period is to be taken to be a further period referred to in of that Act.