Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (XI FIP World Polo Championship) Regulation 2017 (NSW)

New South Wales

Environmental Planning and Assessment

Amendment (XI FIP World Polo
Championship) Regulation 2017

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

ANTHONY ROBERTS, MP

Minister for Planning

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to facilitate preparations for the XI Federation of International Polo World Polo Championship Sydney 2017 (the XI FIP World Polo Championship) by excluding development for the purposes of that event from being development or an activity within the meaning of the Environmental
Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

The XI FIP World Polo Championship is declared to be a major event by the Major Events Regulation 2017 for the purposes of the Major Events Act 2009 for the period from 9 October 2017 until 5 November 2017. This Regulation is made under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, including the definition of development in section 4 (1), paragraph (k) of the definition of activity in section 110 (1) and section 157 (the general regulation-making power).

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (XI FIP World Polo Championship) Regulation 2017

[NSW]

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (XI FIP

World Polo Championship) Regulation 2017

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (XI FIP
World Polo Championship) Regulation 2017.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000

Clause 288A

Omit the clause. Insert instead:

288A	Special provision for major events
(1) This clause applies to the XI Federation of International Polo World Polo Championship Sydney 2017, which is declared to be a major event under the Major Events Act 2009.

Note. See clause 6 of the Major Events Regulation 2017, which declares the XI Federation of International Polo World Polo Championship Sydney 2017 to be a major event and specifies that the declaration is in force from 9 October 2017 until 5 November 2017.

(2)	Development for the purposes of a major event to which this clause applies during the period for which the declaration of the major event is in force:
(a) is not development for the purposes of the definition of

development in section 4 (1) of the Act, and

(b) is not an activity for the purposes of paragraph (k) of the definition of activity in section 110 (1) of the Act.

(3)	Subclause (2) extends to car parking required by, or associated with, the major event referred to in subclause (1) on the contingency parking site.
(4)	In this clause, contingency parking site means the land shown edged heavy black on the XI FIP World Polo Championship Contingency Parking Site Map.
(5)	A reference in this clause to a named map is a reference to a map of that name in force on the commencement of this clause and held in the Department of Planning and Environment.