Planning and Development (Development Assessment Panels) Regulations 2011 (WA)

Western Australia

Planning and Development Act 2005

Western Australia

Planning and Development Act 2005

Planning and Development (Development Assessment Panels) Regulations 2011

These regulations are the Planning and Development (Development Assessment Panels) Regulations 2011.

These regulations come into operation as follows —

• (a)

  regulations 1 and 2 — on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;

• (b)

  the rest of the regulations — on the day on which the Approval and Related Reforms (No. 4) (Planning) Act 2010 Part 3 comes into operation.

• (1)

  In these regulations —

accepted for assessment has a meaning affected by subregulation (3);

accreditation body, for an area of expertise, means a body that accredits qualifications for the area of expertise;

accredited, in relation to a tertiary qualification for an area of expertise, means accredited by an accreditation body for the area of expertise;

applicant means a person who makes a DAP application;

approved form means a form approved by the DAP executive director under regulation 54A;

community housing means housing for people on a very low, low or moderate income, or for people with additional needs, that is provided by a person other than an occupant of the housing;

community housing provider means a body corporate or organisation that has as one of its objectives the provision of community housing;

DAP application means a development application of a class or kind prescribed under regulation 6 in respect of which the applicant has made an election under regulation 7;

DAP executive director means the DAP executive director designated under regulation 49;

DAP member means —

• (a)

  a local government DAP member; or

• (b)

  a specialist DAP member;

DAP website has the meaning given in regulation 51;

department means the department of the Public Service principally assisting the Minister in the administration of the Act;

deputy presiding member, in relation to a DAP, means the person designated as deputy presiding member of the DAP under regulation 24(1);

Director General means the chief executive officer of the department;

excluded development application means a development application for approval of —

• (a)

  construction of a single house and any associated carport, patio, outbuilding and incidental development; or

• (b)

  development in an improvement scheme area; or

• (c)

  a public work; or

• (d)

  development wholly within an area identified as a regional reserve under a region planning scheme;

local government DAP member means a person designated as a local government DAP member or an alternate local government DAP member under regulation 25(2);

member, in relation to the council of a local government, has the meaning given by the Local Government Act 1995 section 1.4;

planning instrument has the meaning given in section 171A(1) of the Act;

presiding member, in relation to a meeting of a DAP, means…