Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

For the purposes of this Act, subdivision of land means the division of land into 2 or more parts that, after the division, would be obviously adapted for separate occupation, use or disposition. The division may (but need not) be effected—

by conveyance, transfer or partition, or

by any agreement, dealing, plan or instrument rendering different parts of the land available for separate occupation, use or disposition.

Without limiting subsection (1), subdivision of land includes the procuring of the registration in the office of the Registrar-General of—

a plan of subdivision within the meaning of section 195 of the Conveyancing Act 1919, or

a strata plan or a strata plan of subdivision within the meaning of the Strata Schemes Development Act 2015.

However, subdivision of land does not include—

a lease (of any duration) of a building or part of a building, or

the opening of a public road, or the dedication of land as a public road, by the Crown, a statutory body representing the Crown or a council, or

the acquisition of land, by agreement or compulsory process, under a provision of an Act (including a Commonwealth Act) that authorises the acquisition of land by compulsory process, or

a division of land effected by means of a transaction referred to in section 23G of the Conveyancing Act 1919, or

the procuring of the registration in the office of the Registrar-General of—

a plan of consolidation, a plan of identification or a miscellaneous plan within the meaning of section 195 of the Conveyancing Act 1919, or

a strata plan of consolidation or a building alteration plan within the meaning of the Strata Schemes Development Act 2015.