Buildings (Design and Siting) Regulations (Amendment) (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Buildings (Design and Siting) Regulations1 (Amendment)

Subordinate Law No. 32 of 19922

The Australian Capital Territory Executive, in accordance with section 5 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989, hereby makes the following Regulations under the Buildings (Design and Siting) Act 1964.

Dated 3 December 1992.

bill wood

Minister

terry connolly

Minister

Principal Regulations

1.  In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Buildings (Design and Siting) Regulations.

Commencement

2.  These Regulations commence on the day on which section 5 of the Building (Amendment) Act 1992 commences.

Substitution

3.  Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is repealed and the following regulations substituted:

Interpretation

“2.  In these Regulations—

‘the Act’ means the Buildings (Design and Siting) Act 1964.

Exemption from Part VI of the Land Act

“3. (1) A proposal for the external design and siting of a building on a parcel of land, being a prescribed building within the meaning of section 6AA of the Building Act 1972, is exempt from the application, by virtue of section 6 of the Act, of all of the provisions of Part VI of the Land Act—

(a)if the proposal relates to a letterbox—wherever it is proposed to be built on the parcel of land; or

(b)in any other case—unless the building is proposed to be built—

(i)between a front boundary and a building line;

(ii)less than 1.8 metres from a side boundary; or

(iii)less than 4 metres from a rear boundary;

of the parcel of land.

“(2)  In this regulation—

‘building line’ has the same meaning as in the Plan;

‘front boundary’ has the same meaning as in the Plan;

‘rear boundary’ means any boundary the line of which does not meet the line of a front boundary;

‘side boundary’ means any boundary the line of which meets the line of a front boundary.”.

Repeal

4.  The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is repealed.

NOTES

1. Reprinted as at 30 April 1991.

2. Notified in the ACT Gazette on 11 December 1992.

©  Australian Capital Territory 1992