Environmental Planning and Assessment (Savings, Transitional and Other Provisions) Regulation 2017

Division 4 of Part 4 of the Act, as inserted by the amending Act, does not apply in respect of a development application, or an application to modify a development application, made by or on behalf of the Crown but not finally determined before the commencement of that Division.

The Act and the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 and section 57(1A) of the Heritage Act 1977, as in force before the commencement of Division 4 of Part 4 of the Act, continue to apply in respect of a development application referred to in subclause (1).

Section 116H of the Act, as repealed by the amending Act, continues to have effect as if a reference in that section to “this Part” were a reference to Division 4 of Part 4 of the Act.

Subclause (3) ceases to have effect on the commencement of section 89C of the Act, as inserted by Schedule 2.1[27] to the amending Act.

On the constitution of the Wagga Wagga Interim Joint Planning Panel and the Western Region Joint Planning Panel, a development application made by or on behalf of the Crown relating to land within a part of the State covered by those Panels that was referred to the Planning Assessment Commission under sections 23D(1)(d) and 89 of the Act, and not finally dealt with by the Commission, is to be dealt with by the applicable Panel instead of the Commission.