Planning and Development (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2005

In this section —

the Executive, Finance and Property Committee established under the WAPC Act;

the Statutory Planning Committee established under the WAPC Act;

the Infrastructure Coordinating Committee established under the WAPC Act;

the Coastal Planning and Coordination Council established under the WAPC Act;

any regional planning committee established under the WAPC Act; and

any District Planning Committee established under the MRTPS Act.

A committee established under the PD Act is a continuation of and the same legal entity as the existing committee of the same name established under the WAPC or MRTPS Act with the same rights and obligations as the existing committee.

The Sustainable Transport Committee established under the PD Act is a continuation of and the same legal entity as the Transport Committee established under the WAPC Act with the same rights and obligations as the existing committee.

If in a written law or other document or instrument there is a reference to an existing committee, the reference may, where the context so requires, be read as if it had been amended to be a reference to the committee of the same name established under the PD Act.

If in a written law or other document or instrument there is a reference to the Transport Committee, the reference may, where the context so requires, be read as if it had been amended to be a reference to the Sustainable Transport Committee established under the PD Act.

The persons who were members of an existing committee immediately before the commencement of the PD Act continue in office, under and subject to that Act, as the members of the committee of the same name established under the PD Act.

The persons who were members of the Transport Committee immediately before the commencement of the PD Act continue in office, under and subject to that Act, as the members of the Sustainable Transport Committee established under the PD Act.