Western Australian Current Acts

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 73

73 .         Contents of scheme

        (1)         A local planning scheme is to —

            (a)         define in such manner as may be prescribed by the regulations the area to which the scheme is to apply;

            (b)         specify the local government to be responsible for enforcing the observance of the scheme, and for the execution of any works which, under the scheme or this Act, are to be executed by a local government.

        (2A)         A local planning scheme may —

            (a)         supplement provisions prescribed under section 256; and

            (b)         deal with any special circumstances or contingencies for which adequate provisions are not prescribed under section 256.

        (2)         Where land included in a local planning scheme is in the districts of more than one local government, or is in the district of a local government by which the scheme was not prepared, the responsible authority in relation to the local planning scheme may be one of those local governments, or for certain purposes of the scheme one local government, and for other purposes of the scheme another local government.

        [Section 73 amended: No. 28 of 2010 s. 55.]