Western Port Steel Works (Development Control) Act 1970

All permits heretofore granted to the Company by the Council of the President Councillors and Ratepayers of the Shire of Hastings (including without prejudice to the generality hereof the permit granted by that Council by resolution carried on the 2nd September, 1970) and all permits heretofore granted to the Company by the Western Port Regional Planning Authority (including without prejudice to the generality hereof the permit granted by that Authority by resolution carried on the 20th October, 1970) are hereby declared to have been validly granted and all development and use pursuant to them or to any of them are hereby declared to be and always to have been lawful and valid.

All conditions to which the permits referred to in sub-section (1) are subject are hereby declared to be and always to have been valid.

So much of the development described on the Plan and the use of the Land for the purposes shown on the Plan as is not authorized by the permits referred to in sub-section (1) of this section is hereby authorized and declared always to have been authorized by and under the Town and Country Planning Act 1961 and by and under all other relevant Acts.

This section shall be construed as authorizing the establishment and operation of a cold strip plant as the first stage of an integrated steel works which may be operated continuously twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week.

This Act does not authorize any development or use of the land other than the development or use referred to in sub-sections (1) and (3) unless the development or use is permitted by an appropriate permit under the Planning and Environment Act 1987.