Western Australian Current Acts

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 239

239 .         Legal representation, some applicants may elect there will be none

        (1)         In the case of an application described in section 237A(2) the applicant may, at the time the application is made, elect that no party to the application is to be represented by a legal practitioner.

        (2)         If an applicant makes an election under subsection (1), no party to the application is entitled to be represented by a legal practitioner unless —

            (a)         the President, being of the opinion that the application is likely to raise complex or significant planning issues, directs that the parties may be so represented; or

            (b)         the President, having regard to whether the application involves a question of law, directs in any other case that the parties may be so represented; or

            (c)         the applicant is a legal practitioner; or

            (d)         the applicant withdraws the election.

        [Section 239 amended: No. 5 of 2008 s. 87.]