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8 Local laws
(1) The building regulations may empower a council to make local laws for or with respect to any matter set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1.
S. 8(2) amended by No. 9/2020 s. 390(Sch. 1 item 8.2).
(2) The **Local Government Act 2020** applies in relation to the making, amendment or revocation of a local law under a power conferred by the building regulations as if the making, amendment or revocation of the local law was authorised under Division 3 of Part 3 of that Act.
S. 8(3) amended by No. 21/2017 s. 99.
(3) A local law made in relation to a municipal district under a power conferred by the building regulations is taken to be a building regulation in force in relation to the municipal district.