Planning and Development Act 2005

The Governor may make regulations for regulating the procedure to be observed —

with respect to the preparation or adoption of a local planning scheme;

with respect to obtaining the approval of the Minister to a local planning scheme so prepared or adopted;

with respect to the review, amendment or repeal of a local planning scheme;

with respect to any inquiries, reports, notices, or other matters required in connection with the preparation, adoption or approval of a local planning scheme, or preliminary to the preparation, adoption or approval of the scheme.

Provision is to be made by the regulations for ensuring that —

notice of the proposal to prepare or adopt a scheme is to be given, at the earliest stage possible, to any local government interested in the land; and

the local government of the district in which any land proposed to be included in a scheme is given —

a notice of any proposal to prepare or adopt such a scheme; and

a copy of the draft scheme before the scheme is made;

the local government is entitled to be heard at any inquiry held by the Minister in regard to the scheme.

Without limiting the generality of subsection (1) regulations made under that subsection with regard to the amendment of a scheme may require the payment by the owner of land of the costs incurred in the publication under the regulations of any notice prescribed in the regulations relating to an amendment to a local planning scheme where the amendment is made at the request of that owner and is in respect of land owned by that owner.