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House of Assembly—No 41
As laid on the table and read a first time,
Development
(Significant Trees) Amendment Bill 2006
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Development Act 1993.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Development
Act 1993
4 Insertion of section 38A
38A Special notification requirements in
relation to significant trees
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
The Parliament of
This Act may be cited as the Development (Significant Trees)
Amendment Act 2006.
This Act will come into operation 2 months after the date of
assent.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the
amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment of Development Act 1993
After section 38 insert:
38A—Special
notification requirements in relation to significant trees
(1) If an application for a tree-damaging
activity in relation to a significant tree is made, the relevant authority must—
(a) give
notice, in writing, of the application to the member of the House of Assembly
for the House of Assembly electoral district in which the significant tree is
located; and
(b) publish notice of the application on a website maintained by
the relevant authority.
(2) This
section is in addition to, and does not derogate from, any other provision of
this Act or another Act requiring any notification to be given in relation to
the proposed development.
Schedule 1—Transitional provision
Section 38A of the Development Act 1993 as inserted by section 4 of this Act applies in relation to an application for a tree-damaging activity in relation to a significant tree whether the application is made before or after the commencement of section 4, provided that the application has not been determined before the commencement of section 4.