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ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT ACT 1979 - SECT 3.15

Owner-initiated acquisition of land reserved for public purposes

3.15 Owner-initiated acquisition of land reserved for public purposes

(cf previous s 27)

(1) An environmental planning instrument that reserves land for use exclusively for a purpose referred to in section 3.14(1)(c) must specify an authority of the State that will be the relevant authority to acquire the land if the land is required to be acquired under Division 3 of Part 2 of the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 .
(2) Section 21 of the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 applies for the purposes of determining whether an environmental planning instrument reserves land for use exclusively for a purpose referred to in section 3.14(1)(c).
(3) An environmental planning instrument (whenever made) is not to be construed as requiring an authority of the State to acquire land, except as required by Division 3 of Part 2 of the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 .
(4) Subsection (3) applies despite--
(a) any provision of an environmental planning instrument (whenever made) to the contrary, or
(b) the service of a notice to acquire the land on an authority of the State on or after the day on which notice was given in Parliament for leave to introduce the Bill for the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Reserved Land Acquisition) Act 2006 .



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