Northern Territory Numbered Acts

PLANNING AMENDMENT ACT 2005 (NO 12 OF 2005) - SECT 41

    Sections 137 and 138 –

    repeal , substitute

137.     Certified copies of planning documents, permits etc.

    (1)     A person may apply to the Minister for a certified copy of any of the following:

    (a)     a planning document, as in force at a specified date under a Planning Act;

    (b)     a permit issued under a Planning Act;

    (c)     any other document issued under a Planning Act.

    (2)     The application must be in the approved form and be accompanied by the prescribed fee.

    (3)     A copy certified under this section is admissible in a court, or before a body or person acting judicially, as evidence of the contents of the document of which it is a copy.

    (4)     In this section –

"Planning Act" means any of the following, as in force from time to time:

    (a)     the Planning Act 1979 ;

    (b)     the Planning Act 1993 ;

    (c)     this Act;

"planning document" means any of the following:

    (a)     a planning scheme or part of a planning scheme;

    (b)     planning and development objectives of the Territory, a planning instrument, control plan, land use objective, incorporated document or development provision;

    (c)     an instrument amending or proposing to amend a document referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

138.     Registers and plans for public inspection

    A consent authority must retain and keep available for public inspection during normal office hours –

    (a)     a copy of each plan of subdivision or consolidation approved by the consent authority;

    (b)     a register of all permits issued by the consent authority; and

    (c)     a register of all determinations of the Appeals Tribunal, or the Planning Appeals Tribunal under the former Act, in respect of determinations of the consent authority.