Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority Act 2011 (WA)

Western Australia

Western Australia

Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority Act 2011

An Act to —

provide for the planning and redevelopment of, and the control of development in, certain land in the metropolitan region; and

establish a State agency with planning, development control, land acquisition and disposal and other functions in respect of that land; and

provide for related matters, including the repeal or amendment of certain Acts.

This is the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority Act 2011.

This Act comes into operation as follows —

• (a)

  sections 1 and 2 — on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent;

• (b)

  the rest of the Act — on a day fixed by proclamation, and different days may be fixed for different provisions.

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

acquire includes take —

• (a)

  by way of lease, licence or easement; or

• (b)

  in any other manner in which an interest in property may be acquired;

approved redevelopment scheme means a redevelopment scheme, as amended from time to time under section 49, in operation under section 48(2);

Authority means the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority established by section 4;

chief executive officer means the chief executive officer, under the Public Sector Management Act 1994, of the Authority;

development means —

• (a)

  the erection, construction, demolition, alteration or carrying out of any building, excavation, or other works in, on, over, or under land; and

• (b)

  a material change in the use of land; and

• (c)

  any other act or activity in relation to land declared by regulation to constitute development,

but does not include any work, act or activity declared by regulation not to constitute development;

development application means an application for a development approval or for an approval under section 60(2);

development approval means a development approval issued by the Authority under section 66(2)(b);

dispose of includes —

• (a)

  sell; or

• (b)

  dispose of —

• (i)

  by way of lease, licence, easement or right of way; or

• (ii)

  in any other way in which an interest in property may be disposed of;

Environment Minister means the Minister who administers the EP Act;

EPA means the Environmental Protection Authority continued in existence under the EP Act;

EP Act means the Environmental Protection Act 1986;

improvement scheme has the meaning given in the PAD Act section 4(1);

local planning scheme has the meaning given in the PAD Act section 4(1);

LRC means a land redevelopment committee established under section 26;

metropolitan region has the meaning given in the PAD Act section 4(1);

PAD Act means the Planning and Development Act 2005;

Planning Minister means the Minister who administers the PAD Act;

planning scheme means any of the following —

• (a)

  a local planning scheme;

• (b)

  a region planning scheme as defined in the PAD Act section 4(1);

• (c)

  an…