Queensland Consolidated Acts

PLANNING ACT 2016 - SECT 293

293 Rules about amending local planning instrument consistent with Act

(1) The Minister may make rules about making amendments to a local planning instrument that are of a type the Minister is satisfied—

(a) are consistent with this Act; and

(b) do not substantially change the effect of the instrument.

(2) Section 17(2) and (3) does not apply to the rules.

(3) The rules start to have effect when the Minister publishes a gazette notice about the making of the rules.

(4) The rules must state that, if a local government makes an amendment under the rules, the local government must—

(a) give a copy of the amendment to the chief executive; and

(b) publish a public notice about the amendment as if the amendment had been made under chapter 2, part 3.

(5) A local government may make an amendment of a type mentioned in subsection (1) by following the process set out in the rules.

(6) Section 9 applies to an amendment made under the rules as if the amendment had been made under chapter 2, part 3.