South Australian Current Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 242

242—Time limits for dealing with certain applications

        (1)         This section applies to—

            (a)         an application for a council's approval of the proposed use of community land for a business purpose; or

            (b)         an application for the council's authorisation to use a road for a business purpose; or

            (c)         an application of a kind declared by regulation to be an application to which this section applies.

        (2)         An application to which this section applies must be decided within two months after the relevant date and, if not so decided, is taken to have been refused.

        (3)         A council must notify the applicant in writing as soon as practicable of a decision or presumptive decision on an application to which this section applies.

        (4)         In this section, the "relevant date" is the date of the application or, in the case of an application on which the council proposes to conduct public consultation, a later date the council fixes in a written notice given to the applicant within one month after the date of the application as the date on which it expects to complete the process of public consultation.