New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT REGULATION 2000 - REG 142A

142A Deemed refusal period for application for construction certificate

(1) For the purposes of section 8.17(1) of the Act, a council is taken to have made a decision to refuse to issue a construction certificate if, following an application for the certificate, the council fails to issue the certificate within the period that ends on the day that is--

(a) if the application is made on or before the day on which the council determines the associated development application for the application--the last day of the period referred to in section 8.11(1) of the Act at the end of which the council is taken to have determined the associated development application by refusing development consent (or refusing to modify development consent), or

(b) otherwise--28 days after the day on which the application was made.

(2) In this clause--

"associated development application" , for an application for a construction certificate, means the development application for the development to which the application for the construction certificate relates.