1Western Port Steel Works (Development Control) Act 1970

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documentsi Version No. 001 Western Port Steel Works (Development Control) Act 1970 Act No. 8050/1970 Version incorporating amendments as at 21 August 2001 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page

1. Short title 3
2. Definitions 3
3. Municipal and Regional Planning areas to be extended 4
4. Permits and conditions by Regional Authority and Shire declared valid and work within Reclamation Area authorized 4 ═══════════════ ENDNOTES 6
5. General Information 6
6. Table of Amendments 7
7. Explanatory Details 8

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents1 Version No. 001 Western Port Steel Works (Development Control) Act 1970 Act No. 8050/1970 Version incorporating amendments as at 21 August 2001 An Act to extend the area and powers of the Western Port Regional Planning Authority and The President Councillors and Ratepayers of the Shire of Hastings in relation to the Establishment and Operation by John Lysaght (Australia) Limited of a Steel Works and other Works associated therewith at Western Port and for other purposes. Preamble WHEREAS John Lysaght (Australia) Limited has applied for and been granted interim development permits by the Western Port Regional Planning Authority and by the Council of the President Councillors and Ratepayers of the Shire of Hastings acting or purporting to act under the Town and Country Planning Act 1961 for the purpose of enabling John Lysaght (Australia) Limited to establish and operate a cold strip plant at Western Port: AND WHEREAS the Western Port Regional Planning Authority has been advised that there are doubts as to the validity of the permit and the conditions of the permit issued by the said Council on 20th October, 1970: AND WHEREAS John Lysaght (Australia) Limited has been advised that there are doubts as to the validity of the permit and the conditions of the permit issued by the Western Port Regional Planning Authority on 23rd October, 1970:

Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary DocumentsAct No. 8050/1970 Western Port Steel Works (Development Control) Act 1970 2 AND WHEREAS there is a conflict between the conditions of the said permit issued by the Western Port Regional Planning Authority and a permit issued by the said Council on 8th June, 1970: AND WHEREAS the works being established by John Lysaght (Australia) Limited extend into the waters of Western Port Bay below the high water mark: AND WHEREAS the boundaries of the municipal district of the President Councillors and Ratepayers of the Shire of Hastings and of the area of the Western Port Regional Planning Authority do not extend into the waters of Western Port Bay below the high water mark: AND WHEREAS it is in the public interest that the Western Port Regional Planning Authority and the said Council and each of them should exercise control over those works extending into the waters of Western Port Bay notwithstanding that they extend below the high water mark and over any discharge into those waters: AND WHEREAS it is in the public interest that the conditions heretofore purportedly imposed by the Western Port Regional Planning Authority and the said Council be capable of being enforced by them and each of them: AND WHEREAS it is in the public interest and in the interest of the said Company that the works commenced by that Company should be deemed to have been validly commenced notwithstanding the said doubts as to the validity of the said permits or either of them by subject nevertheless to the conditions heretofore purportedly imposed as aforesaid: Preamble