Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 26

26 .         State planning policies, preparation and content of

        (1)         The Commission may, with the approval or on the direction of the Minister, prepare State planning policies.

        (2)         A State planning policy is to be directed primarily towards broad general planning and facilitating the coordination of planning throughout the State by local governments.

        (3)         Despite subsection (2), a State planning policy may make provision for any matter which may be the subject of a local planning scheme.

        (4)         A State planning policy may be prepared so as to apply —

            (a)         generally or in a particular class of matter or in particular classes of matter; and

            (b)         throughout the State or in a specified portion or specified portions of the State, whether or not a planning scheme has been prepared or is being prepared in that portion or those portions of the State.

        [Section 26 amended by No. 28 of 2010 s. 8.]