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sec.69Amending the development assessment rules
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### sec.69 Amending the development assessment rules
The Minister may amend the development assessment rules.
However, the amendment does not have effect until—
the chief executive publishes both the amendment, and the rules as amended, on the department’s website; and
the rules as amended are prescribed by regulation.
Section 10 applies to amending the development assessment rules as if the rules were a State planning policy.
However, section 10 (6) applies as if a reference in section 10 (6) (a) (i) to the day when the instrument was made were a reference to the day the development assessment rules as amended took effect.
Also, the Minister must comply with section 10 (6) , as applied under subsection (4) , immediately after a regulation prescribes the amended development assessment rules.
In addition, if the amendment is a minor amendment of the development assessment rules, section 10 does not apply to the amendment.
If the Minister makes a minor amendment of the development assessment rules, immediately after a regulation prescribes the amended development assessment rules, the Minister must—
publish a public notice that states—
the day when the amendment took effect; and
where a copy of the amended development assessment rules may be inspected or purchased; and
give a copy of the public notice, and the amended development assessment rules, to each affected local government.
The regulation must state the day the amendment was published.
In this section—
minor amendment , of the development assessment rules, has the meaning given by section 11 (3) as if the rules were a State planning instrument.
s 69 amd 2019 No. 11 s 231 s ch 1 pt 1 ; 2024 No. 13 s 30
(sec.69-ssec.1) The Minister may amend the development assessment rules.
(sec.69-ssec.2) However, the amendment does not have effect until— the chief executive publishes both the amendment, and the rules as amended, on the department’s website; and the rules as amended are prescribed by regulation.
(sec.69-ssec.3) Section 10 applies to amending the development assessment rules as if the rules were a State planning policy.
(sec.69-ssec.4) However, section 10 (6) applies as if a reference in section 10 (6) (a) (i) to the day when the instrument was made were a reference to the day the development assessment rules as amended took effect.
(sec.69-ssec.5) Also, the Minister must comply with section 10 (6) , as applied under subsection (4) , immediately after a regulation prescribes the amended development assessment rules.
(sec.69-ssec.6) In addition, if the amendment is a minor amendment of the development assessment rules, section 10 does not apply to the amendment.
(sec.69-ssec.7) If the Minister makes a minor amendment of the development assessment rules, immediately after a regulation prescribes the amended development assessment rules, the Minister must— publish a public notice that states— the day when the amendment took effect; and where a copy of the amended development assessment rules may be inspected or purchased; and give a copy of the public notice, and the amended development assessment rules, to each affected local government.
(sec.69-ssec.8) The regulation must state the day the amendment was published.
(sec.69-ssec.9) In this section— minor amendment , of the development assessment rules, has the meaning given by section 11 (3) as if the rules were a State planning instrument.
- (a) the chief executive publishes both the amendment, and the rules as amended, on the department’s website; and
- (b) the rules as amended are prescribed by regulation.
- (a) publish a public notice that states— (i) the day when the amendment took effect; and (ii) where a copy of the amended development assessment rules may be inspected or purchased; and
- (i) the day when the amendment took effect; and
- (ii) where a copy of the amended development assessment rules may be inspected or purchased; and
- (b) give a copy of the public notice, and the amended development assessment rules, to each affected local government.
- (i) the day when the amendment took effect; and
- (ii) where a copy of the amended development assessment rules may be inspected or purchased; and