Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

TOWN PLANNING REGULATIONS 1967 - REG 3

3 .         Interpretation

                In these regulations unless the context requires otherwise — 

        authorised person means a person or body appointed under regulation 3A as an authorised person for the purposes of the regulation in which the expression is used;

        Chief Executive Officer means the chief executive officer of the relevant local government;

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

        Development Scheme means a Scheme that involves one or more of the following — 

            (a)         works;

            (b)         constructions;

            (c)         alteration of boundaries,

        but does not include a Scheme that involves the zoning or classification of land;

        Scheme means a Town Planning Scheme;

        the Act means the Town Planning and Development Act 1928 (as amended);

        Town Planning Scheme Amendment or Amendment means an amendment varying or amplifying a Scheme that has been approved and gazetted in accordance with section 7(4) of the Act;

                and words and expressions used in these regulations have, when so used, the same respective meanings as are given to them in and for the purposes of the Act.

        [Regulation 3 amended in Gazette 7 Mar 1986 p. 704; 9 Feb 1996 p. 485; 2 Aug 1996 p. 3632; 27 Aug 2002 p. 4357-8.]